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We are SO excited about summer fruits

Coral Lee - Food52
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Utilities against climate regulation

NICK TABOREK - Grist
Residents line up at a drive-up distribution site to receive free at-home COVID-19 test kits on January 02, 2022 in Stamford, Connecticut. The Connecticut state government received some 400,000 tests over the weekend which were sent to cities and towns for local distribution. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Do at-home COVID tests work anymore?

Nicole Karlis
Gray Wolf (Getty Images/Straublund Photography)

The wolf fight in Wisconsin

Leah Campbell - Undark
A general view of Novavax vaccine vials as the Dutch Health Service Organization starts with the Novavax vaccination program on March 21, 2022 in The Hague, Netherlands. (Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images)

Novavax's new shot may sway anti-vaxxers

Nicole Karlis
Malaria vaccine (Getty Images/Hailshadow)

Why the malaria vaccine took 35 years

Pratik Pawar - Undark
Hands unravel the tangled red threads on the silhouette of the head (Getty Images/Ildar Abulkhanov)

Everything you know about ADHD is wrong

Mary Elizabeth Williams
At the University of Minnesota's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, the door to the lab where the first step is taken in the testing of samples for the monkeypox virus has a warning sign to let others know not to enter. (JUDY GRIESEDIECK/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

The challenges of calculating a lab leak

Michael Schulson - Undark
Jordan Peterson addresses students at The Cambridge Union on November 02, 2018 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. (Chris Williamson/Getty Images)

Academia has a "race science" problem

Christopher T. Conner, Marcus Weinman
Space warp travels through the universe (Getty Images/pixelparticle)

Interstellar travel via nomad planets?

Nicole Karlis
Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts (Getty Images)

Infrastructure as culture war flexing?

Jake Bittle - Grist
Dentist working with patient while dental assistant is helping around, both wearing a protective gowns, face masks and gloves during COVID-19 pandemic (Getty Images/Kosamtu)

U.S. dentistry affected by war?

Darius Tahir - KFF Health News
Monkeypox virus (Getty Images/kontekbrothers)

Monkeypox rhetoric recalls HIV stigma

Eric Schank
UPS Warehouse (KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images)

A "warehouse" by any other name

María Paula Rubiano A. - Grist
Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, stands in the foundry of the Tesla Gigafactory (Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Musk's office work edict may doom Tesla

Gleb Tsipursky
Satellite view of the eye of a tropical storm, hurricane (Getty Images/Naeblys)

Hurricane season to be "above average"

Julia Kane - Grist
Medical syringes are seen with 'Monkeypox' sign displayed on a screen in the backgound in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on May 26, 2022. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Who wants a monkeypox vaccine?

Nicole Karlis
A medical worker monitors the vitals of an intubated patient at the COVID-19 coronavirus ward of Dura Governmental Hospital in the town of Dura on the outskirts of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on February 5, 2022. (HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images)

Vaccines barely reduce long COVID risk

Nicole Karlis
The smallpox vaccine diluent in a syringe along side a vial of Dryvax® dried smallpox vaccine, 2002. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Lack of smallpox vax led to monkeypox

Eric Schank
Medical Bill (Getty Images/everydayplus)

When medical test costs suddenly change

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
An illustration of the extinct giant ground sloth Megalonyx slowing mmaking his way through an Ice Age Ohio forest. (Getty Images/Aunt_Spray)

Life evolving far faster than we thought

Matthew Rozsa
A CVS pharmacist gives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to a resident at the Emerald Court senior living community in Anaheim, CA (Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Long COVID signs overlooked in seniors

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
Ultrasound of a pregnant woman and test (Getty Images/SabdiZ)

Gutting Roe will lead to women's deaths

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Worried healthcare worker (Getty Images/FG Trade)

Doctors take aim at prior authorization

Lola Butcher - Undark
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