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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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Paint spreads at a protest on the steps of City Hall to denounce the U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended federal abortion rights protections on July 6, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Consequences of being denied abortion

Diana Greene Foster
3D rendered image, enhanced scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of cancer cells. (Getty Images/koto_feja)

Rural struggle for cancer medicine

Debby Waldman - KFF Health News
A man carries a handgun emblazoned with the Confederate battle flag during an unveiling of a monument to unknown Confederate dead at Confederate Veterans Memorial Park, which is owned privately, in Brantley, Ala., Aug. 27, 2017. (Kevin D. Liles/For the Washington Post/Getty Images)

Gun prevalence rooted in old divisions

Matthew Rozsa
Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom McClintock speaks to reporters with his wife Lori after participating in a denate at California State University, Sacramento September 24, 2003 in Sacramento, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

An "herbal remedy" results in death

Samantha Young - KFF Health News
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Happy Welsh Corgi Pembroke dog sitting in yellow dandelions field (Getty Images/BONDART)

Dog is love: Dogs can cry tears of joy

Matthew Rozsa
Stack Of Books On Table In Library (Getty Images/Rachan Panya/EyeEm)

Librarians confront a new workplace

Rachel Scheier - KFF Health News
Dr. Anthony Fauci (Al Drago - Pool/Getty Images)

How will Fauci be remembered by history?

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/IP Galanternik D.U.)

Engineers on how to conserve A/C energy

Aisling Pigott, Jennifer Scheib, Kyri Baker - The Conversation
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Illustration of a tyrannosaurus as an asteroid strikes the Earth. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The dinosaur-killing asteroid had a twin

Matthew Rozsa
Woman in silhouette, sitting on a bench in a moody landscape at water's edge (Getty Images/YinYang)

The messy widowhood of "All of This"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces the co-founding of The Climate Pledge at the National Press Club on September 19, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Amazon)

The problem with corporate pledges

Joseph Winters - Grist
French writer Philippe Vigand (6 May 1957–15 November 2020) and his wife, Stéphane Vigand, photographed in Paris on March 23, 1998. Vigand had locked-in syndrome. (GAILLARDE/REGLAIN/Getty)

Are those with locked-in syndrome happy?

Jonathan Moens - Undark
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Doctor writing notes on a clipboard in a modern hospital (Getty Images/shapecharge)

The struggle for kid-ney care

Colleen DeGuzman - KFF Health News
Galapagos Tortoise (Getty Images/Mark Newman)

Animals hold the key to ultra-longevity

Steven N. Austad
Two students comfort a classmate in the corridor (Getty Images/Daniel de la Hoz)

How to respond to a mental health crisis

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/Totojang)

How to destroy a forever chemical

A. Daniel Jones, Hui Li - The Conversation
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