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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy | A view of a residential area in Middlesex County as floodwater covers streets that norâeaster left behind flash floods east coast, in New Jersey, United States on October 26, 2021. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

New Jersey's dismal climate plan

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Cell structure and mitochondrion (Getty Images/ SciePro/Science Photo Library)

When cells become "zombies"

Patricia Opresko, Ryan Barnes - The Conversation
Jupiter and Saturn (NASA/iStock/Getty Images)

Why Saturn has rings and Jupiter doesn't

Matthew Rozsa
A nurse gives a little girl a shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine while her brother covers his eyes at a vaccination site for 5-11 year-olds at Eastmonte Park. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Worldwide, children's vaccine rates fall

Nicole Karlis
U.S. President Joe Biden departs the Oval Office and walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House July 20, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

What are risks for COVID-positive Biden?

Matthew Rozsa
People On Illuminated City At Night, New Orleans, USA (Getty Images / Kevin Ocampo / EyeEm)

Light pollution lengthens pollen season

Yuyu Zhou - The Conversation
Teenagers Vaping (Getty Images/Aleksandr Yu)

Weed vapes produce a toxic gas: study

Matthew Rozsa
Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. (NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez)

A micrometeoroid damages James Webb

Matthew Rozsa
Man takes a PCR swab test at Gatwick Airport on November 27, 2020 in London, England. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Experts still torn on throat swabbing

Nicole Karlis
Sign-carrying pro-choice & pro-life advocates clashing outside Supreme Court, demonstrating against Pennsylvania case ruling imperiling 1973 Roe vs Wade decision legalizing abortion. (Diana Walker/Getty Images)

What drives anti-abortion beliefs?

Jaimie Arona Krems, Martie Haselton - The Conversation
A flame burns a tree during a forest fire in Cebreros on July 18, 2022 in Avila, Spain. Wildfires have broken out across Spain and southern Europe amid a severe heatwave. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

Europe engulfed by heat, wildfires

Matthew Rozsa
The controlled burn at the General Sherman tree landmark removes white firs and decayed matter from the forest floor, while not harming the sequoias. (Getty Images/Raymond Gehman)

Saving trees from fire with more fire

Eric Schank
A woman receives her Covid-19 vaccination booster jab at the Sir Ludwig Guttmann Health & Wellbeing Centre on November 10, 2021 in the Stratford area of London, England. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

No, boosters aren't bad for you

Nicole Karlis
A visual representation of a Bitcoin cryptocurrency as a gold coin on a computer keyboard. (Getty Images)

Bitcoin, we have a problem

Julia Kane - Grist
Male Pileated Woodpecker (Getty Images/Hamid Ebrahimi)

Woodpeckers peck unprotected: study

Matthew Rozsa
Pregnant Woman Touching Her Belly While Reading a Book (Getty Images/KDP)

Why parenting books make you feel bad

Olga Mecking
U.S. President Joe Biden (Julie Bennett/Getty Images)

72% of Americans polled want renewables

Kate Yoder - Grist
This picture taken on October 18, 2018 shows newborn green turtles heading to the sea after being released from a protected area on Thameehla Island. - Peril plagues the young life of a baby turtle in Myanmar; if the crabs don't get them before they scramble from the beach to the sea, poachers or fishing trawlers may do - while habitat destruction also decimates their numbers. Myanmar's waters boast five of the world's seven sea turtle species, including the critically endangered hawksbill, the endangered green turtle as well as the olive ridley, leatherback and loggerhead turtles, all listed as vulnerable. (Photo by Ye Aung THU / AFP) / PHOTO ESSAY by Ye Aung THU (Photo credit should read YE AUNG THU/AFP/Getty Images) (Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images))

Mass extinctions threaten Earth's future

Matthew Rozsa
Antibiotics are placed in petri dishes filled with bacteria. In the dish on the left the bacteria will not develop near the antibiotics. In the right petri dish, antibiotic resistant bacteria are growing. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

No Operation Warp Speed for antibiotics

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
Close up view of a doctor wearing surgical mask and a face shield in a hospital COVID ward. (Getty Images)

Preventing hospital-acquired pneumonia

Brett Kelman - KFF Health News
Thor: Love and Thunder (Marvel Studios)

Screaming goats of "Thor" not fiction

Eric Schank
Suicide prevention sign on Golden Gate Bridge (David Madison/Getty Images)

Why is there a new Suicide Lifeline?

Kelly McClure
Abortion drug pills and drinking water (Getty Images/Peter Dazeley)

HHS issues warning to rebel pharmacists

Nicole Karlis
Top view of a paper bag full of canned food, fruits, vegetables, eggs, a milk bottle, berries, mushrooms, nuts, pasta, a chocolate bar and bread. (Getty Images)

Why hot days drive up food prices

Kate Yoder - Grist
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