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In this photo illustration, a person looks at an Abortion Pill (RU-486) for unintended pregnancy from Mifepristone displayed on a smartphone. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

How to access abortion post-Roe

Nicole Karlis
Nozzles Spraying Herbicide on Field (Getty Images/Richard Hamilton Smith)

Trump's EPA carcinogen policy reversed

Matthew Rozsa
Cityscape on horizon over shark infested sea (Getty Images/Wavebreakmedia)

Why more shark encounters are coming

Matthew Rozsa
Two young women show tampons they made out of menstrual pads similar to those they would make while incarcerated at the Northwestern Regional Adult Detention Center in Winchester, VA, from their temporary home at Friends of Guest House, a residential re-entry program for female non-violent offenders, in Alexandria, VA, Tuesday, July 11, 2017. (Allison Shelley/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Is it safe to use homemade tampons?

Nicole Karlis
Young professionals arguing in office (Getty Images/Westend61)

Why it's unwise to be "braggadocious"

Matthew Rozsa
The Henry Ford II World Center, headquarters of the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan. (James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images)

Ford faces land pollution lawsuit

Diana Kruzman - Grist
(David Gn / Getty Images)

Lessons from the homeless crisis

Angela Hart - KFF Health News
A person holds the drug Paxlovid against Covid-19 from the manufacturer Pfizer. (Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Does Paxlovid work against COVID?

Nicole Karlis
An aerial picture shows bergy bits and growlers floating in front of the Apusiajik glacier, near Kulusuk (aslo spelled Qulusuk), a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality located on the island of the same name on the southeastern shore of Greenland. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Temps rising 2.7° celsius each decade

Julia Kane - Grist
Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur (Getty Images/ROGER HARRIS/SPL)

The real world behind "Jurassic World"

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty Images/cavan Images Rf)

An AI learns how to do chemistry

Marc Zimmer - The Conversation
Macro closeup of fresh clear Irish moss seaweed in blender (Getty Images/ablokhin)

Should you eat sea moss gel?

Nicole Karlis
Prescription medication is strewn about, with pill bottles in the deep background. (Getty Images)

How drugs know where to go in the body

Tom Anchordoquy - The Conversation
Stumble Over Cable (Getty Images/AndreyPopov)

Maybe you're not just "clumsy"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Sperm (Getty Images/Irina Shatilova)

The sperm evolutionary arms race

Rebecca Coffey
Tap water in a clear glass drinking glass. (Getty Images)

Clean Water Act’s 50th anniversary

Rona Kobell - The Revelator
A man hold his hand to his heart as a Proud Boys organizer recites the Pledge of Allegiance during a Proud Boys rally at Delta Park in Portland, Oregon on September 26, 2020. (MARANIE R. STAAB/AFP via Getty Images)

How did the "symbolic threat" formed?

Jacqueline Rifkin, Rebecca Ponce De Leon - The Conversation
Father bottle-feeding his newborn baby (Getty Images/Westend61)

Respect for the nurturing dad

Tova Walsh, Alvin Thomas
Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas, April 18, 1935. (Wikimedia Commons / NOAA / George E. Marsh Album)

The disaster that prophesied our future

Matthew Rozsa
Little Blue Penguins runs towards the sea after being released by wild life workers and school children at Mount Maunganui beach in Tauranga on December 8, 2011. The Penguins were among those affected by New Zealand's biggest sea pollution disaster when the Monrovia-flagged container ship 'Rena' ploughed into a reef on October 5. (Marty Melville/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change causing "mass die-offs"

Kelly McClure
Hundreds of wind turbines are viewed along Highway 111 and Interstate 10 on March 7, 2022 near Palm Springs, California. (George Rose/Getty Images)

Wind power continues to grow

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Getty Images)

Biodiversity and climate change solution

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
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)

Why the kids' vaccine took so long

Nicole Karlis
Transgender flags (Getty Images)

Minimum age for trans treatment now 14

Kelly McClure
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