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This handout photo taken and released by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on December 5, 2024, shows the launch of PSLV-C59 carrying two satellites of European Space Agency (ESA) Proba-3 spacecraft from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. (Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)/AFP via Getty Images)

Satellites launched to create eclipses

Matthew Rozsa
This image of NGC 5468, a galaxy located about 130 million light-years from Earth, combines data from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Adam G. Riess (JHU, STScI))

James Webb challenges cosmic theories

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Formaldehyde, Hazardous chemicals and symbols on containers, chemical in industry or laboratory (Kittisak Kaewchalun / Getty Images)

Formaldehyde needs better regulations

Sharon Lerner, Al Shaw - ProPublica
Woman resting on a sofa (Getty Images/LumiNola)

Why is chronic fatigue so hard to treat?

Nicole Karlis
Head inside another head (Getty Images/quickshooting)

Parts work could help untangle anxiety

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A vet takes a sample from the mouth of a swan during an animal disease exercise. (Christoph Reichwein/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Bird flu could mutate to become worse

Elizabeth Hlavinka
ue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) tail fluke exposed on dive. (Getty Images/Michael Mike L. Baird)

Ship strikes top cause of whale deaths

Nicholas Liu
Firefighters try to extinguish a fire in a warehouse during a wildfire at Arrancada village, Agueda in Aveiro, Portugal on September 17, 2024. (PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images)

Why do we ignore climate change?

Matthew Rozsa
Flags fly at half mast outside the United Healthcare corporate headquarters on December 4, 2024 in Minnetonka, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Murdering CEOs is not a solution

Troy Farah
A man walks past one of two buildings that house Duke Energy's headquarters January 10, 2011 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Davis Turner/Getty Images)

North Carolina town sues Duke Energy

Matthew Rozsa
Diane Wilson patrolling Cox's Creek (Max Loeb)

How a fisher took on Big Plastic and won

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Venus (Getty Images/Baac3nes)

Venus probably never had an ocean: study

Matthew Rozsa
A child with a Congolese flag in the Katanga village near Lubumbashi, during an official visit of the Belgian Royal couple to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Saturday 11 June 2022. (BENOIT DOPPAGNE/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images)

143 deaths linked to illness in DRC

Nicole Karlis
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. delivers a speech outlining his foreign policy vision at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

MAHA? Address lack of social support

Nicole Karlis
Dead body covered in sheet in hospital (Getty Images/MediaProduction)

Grief-stricken parents lack answers

Audrey Dutton - ProPublica
An aerial view shows plastic waste at a landfill on the outskirts of Bengaluru on November 23, 2024. (IDREES MOHAMMED/AFP via Getty Images)

Plastic treaty talks collapse

Matthew Rozsa
Nazi Flag and Forest Fire (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Fossil fascism used to demonize migrants

Matthew Rozsa
Conceptual, man in pain, mental and physical (Getty Images/solarseven)

The upside of climate pessimism

Katarina Zimmer - Undark
Uranus, and its innermost substantial moon, the fractured Miranda (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Uranus is much weirder than we thought

Matthew Rozsa
Republican Senatorial candidate for Pennsylvania Mehmet Oz speaks during a get out the vote rally ahead of the US midterm elections, in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, on November 7, 2022. (ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)

Dr. Oz's finanical conflicts of interest

Darius Tahir - KFF Health News
Salvadorean Samuel Fuentes, a farmer who lost his crops because of the drought, checks his corn field in the town of Usulutan, 110 km southeast from San Salvador, El Salvador on July 24, 2018. (OSCAR RIVERA/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change is a pretext for fascism

Matthew Rozsa
Reproduction of an adult skull of Paranthropus boisei. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Footprints reveal ancient coexistence

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Wild turkeys are seen near the Berkeley Marina in Berkeley, Calif., on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2021. (Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)

Wild turkeys are threatened again

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Woman waiting in medical office waiting room (Getty Images/Thomas Barwick)

Texas won't review post-Dobbs deaths

Nicole Karlis
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