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A person smokes a Juul e-cigarette (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Juul just lost a big battle

Matthew Rozsa
Medical Billing (Getty Images)

The $18,000 breast biopsy

Lauren Sausser - KFF Health News
Planet Neptune and diamonds (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Galactic forecast: Diamond rain

Troy Farah
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), an HIV preventative drug (Daniel Born/The Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Texas judge rules against PrEP coverage

Eleanor Klibanoff, Karen Brooks Harper - The Texas Tribune
Thwaites Glacier (NASA/JPL)

Sea level rise gets real

Matthew Rozsa
Forest landscape in the vicinity of Labé in March 2008, Guinea-Conakry (François GOUDIER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Another dam(n) extinction

John R. Platt - The Revelator
Rainbow fentanyl — fentanyl pills and powder that come in a variety of bright colors, shapes, and sizes (DEA)

Fear-mongering about fentanyl for kids

Troy Farah
NASA's Artemis I rocket sits on launch pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 1, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Why NASA's Artemis 1 mission matters

Jack Burns - The Conversation
A rat eats on the platform at the Herald Square subway station in New York City (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

The world is full of "outcast rats"

Pamela Appea
(AlexTurton/Getty)

Why most embryos die after conception

Kathryn Kavanagh - The Conversation
Prison cells (Getty Images/Hitoshi Nishimura)

US jails people with mental illnesses

Matthew Rozsa
An elementary school student sits in front of a screen at home, using a laptop to participate in online classes with a teacher. (Annette Riedl/picture alliance via Getty Images)

"We, as a nation, failed our kids"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty/George Clerk)

How "bird tech" is advancing

Tom Langen - The Conversation
Woman Kayaking with her Dog (Getty Images/Bread and Butter Productions)

Dog, cat owners are just like their pets

Lei Jia - The Conversation
Hippopotamus (Getty Images/pjmalsbury)

The true story of the Louisiana hippos

Matthew Rozsa
Officials from Para State, northern Brazil, inspect a deforested area in the Amazon rain forest during surveillance in the municipality of Pacaja, 620 km from the capital Belem, on September 22, 2021. (EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images)

Why we need more protected areas

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Gravestones in a cemetery (Getty Images/Marc Bruxelle)

US life expectancy in decline

Bob Hennelly
Human brain scan | Laboratory rat (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Are rats the key to an Alzheimer's cure?

Pamela Appea
Used hypodermic needles are seen in a bin at the India Street Public Health Center Needle Exchange in Portland, Maine. (Joel Page/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

Needle exchanges no longer a city thing

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez - KFF Health News
A close-up of the turkey vulture seen in a park in central New Jersey. (Getty Images/andykazie)

Don't touch that vulture

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Sunny sky (Getty Images/Roman Studio)

With more sizzling summers, Colorado changes how heat advisories are issued

Markian Hawryluk - KFF Health News
Dr Anthony Byrne, Consultant Respiratory Physician and Lung Specialist, consults with a COVID-19 positive patient inside 'the bubble' at St Vincent's Hospital on December 2, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. (Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

Long COVID has put 4 million out of work

Matthew Rozsa
Electric vehicles are displayed before a news conference with White House Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about the American Jobs Plan and to highlight electric vehicles at Union Station near Capitol Hill on April 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

EV boom could bring lithium mines to NC

Blanca Begert - Grist
UFOs (Getty Images/KTSDesign/SCIENCEPHOTOLIBRARY)

The race to unearth an alien meteorite

Matthew Rozsa
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