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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
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How "bird tech" is advancing

Tom Langen - The Conversation
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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
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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
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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
Aaron Rodgers and Joe Rogan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Aaron Rodgers goes anti-vax on "Rogan"

Matthew Rozsa
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Doctor Walking In Hospital Corridor (Getty Images / Bernard Van Berg / EyeEm)

Hospitals cutting services as costs rise

Katheryn Houghton - KFF Health News
Water levels are at a historic low at Lake Powell on April 5, 2022 in Page, Arizona. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

As Lake Powell goes, so goes the West

Matthew Rozsa
Teenage boy sleeping in the library (Getty Images/Mayur Kakade)

Climate change makes it too hot to think

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Vampire bats cuddling at Manu National Park, Peru (Getty Images/Westend61)

When bats go from strangers to friends

Siddhant Pusdekar
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Blurred emergency in hospital (Getty Images/vm)

When an ER doctor becomes an ER patient

Jay Baruch
Red Evil Artificial Intelligence, concept (Getty Images/tampatra)

The quest to create a "human-level" AI

Otto Barten
Official portrait of Abraham Lincoln, by George PA Healy (GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)

Abe Lincoln: Master inventor

Matthew Rozsa
A doctor with the Saxony-Anhalt Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, takes a swab from a patient at the fever outpatient clinic in Halle/Saale. (Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

The next pandemic is of long COVID

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
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