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The chicken misconception

Justin Gregg
Rear view of woman with yellow jacket gazing at mountains and northern branch of Lake Como at dawn. Peglio, Como province, Lombardy region, Italy. (Getty/Francesco Vaninetti Photo)

Is noise bad for us?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
View of redwood trees from the forest floor (Getty Images/James Yu)

Tree planting helps the elderly

Julia Kane - Grist
Velociraptor dinosaur in lush green jungle (Getty Images/Chris Clor)

The warm-blooded dino debate — solved

Matthew Rozsa
Woman struggling to sleep at night (Getty Images/Motortion)

Warming temps are eroding our sleep

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Overworked health care workers wearing protective face masks very sad sitting on the stairs (Getty Images/Juanmonino)

Resident physicians unionize in Calif.

Sarah Kwon - KFF Health News
Adult male patient describing a chest issue to his doctor (Getty Images/DjelicS)

Wait, men can lactate?

Matthew Rozsa
MAY 24: People mourn outside of the SSGT Willie de Leon Civic Center following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

How to process the unthinkable

Pamela Appea
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Avocado industry crosses into ganglands

Jeffrey Miller - The Conversation
Artist's concept of the hypothetical Planet Nine (Caltech/R. Hurt [IPAC])

Did our solar system lose a planet?

Eric Schank
UFO flying toward Earth (Getty Images)

Mystery stars could be alien

Matthew Rozsa
Corn (Getty Images)

Climate change brings mold to Corn Belt

Diana Kruzman - Grist
Doctor wearing PPE looking out the window (Getty Images/skaman306)

Docs get schooled to look beyond obesity

Lauren Sausser - KFF Health News
UVALDE, TX - MAY 25: A Texas State Trooper receives flowers for the victims of a mass shooting yesterday at Robb Elementary School where 21 people were killed, including 19 children, on May 25, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. The shooter, identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, was reportedly killed by law enforcement. (Photo by Jordan Vonderhaar/Getty Images)

The gun violence health care crisis

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Ultrasound of a pregnant woman and test (Getty Images/SabdiZ)

In Myanmar, lessons for life after Roe

James Stout - Undark
Two vaccine syringes (Getty Images/golibtolibov)

Why won't more seniors get boosters?

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
Close-up of a stretched smile (Getty Images/Niels Busch)

No one can tell you're acting fake

Matthew Rozsa
A man drinks water from the water bottle during a hot weather, as the heat wave conditions prevailed in Northern India with the maximum temperature settling at 38.9 degrees Celsius, five notches above the normal, on April 3, 2016 in New Delhi, India. (Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

Climate change means a scorcher summer

Lina Tran - Grist
Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Getty Images)

Humans need to keep carbon in the ground

M.R. O'Connor - Undark
A NASA image of one of the Voyager space probes. Voyager 1 and its identical sister craft Voyager 2 were launched in 1977 to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. (NASA/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Voyager 1 is sending back weird signals

Matthew Rozsa
Asteroid (Getty Images)

A large asteroid will just miss Earth

Matthew Rozsa
Three chimpanzees sitting in a group appear to have a meeting (Getty Images/curioustiger)

Wait, chimpanzees can talk?

Matthew Rozsa
Typing code on a laptop computer (Getty Images)

"Stealth research” hurts good science

Jeffrey Lee Funk, Gary N. Smith
"Save the Children Rally" in Keene, New Hampshire Demonstrators on September 19, 2020. Anti-pedophilia protests are flaring in the US where the QAnon movement started. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

"Pedophile" slur hurts real victims

Matthew Rozsa
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