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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)

FDA approves second shot for 50+

Nicole Karlis
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) listens during a committee meeting on Capitol Hill on October 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Why the Senate hasn't made climate deal

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Clinical support technician Douglas Condie extracts viruses from swab samples so that the genetic structure of a virus can be analysed and identified in the coronavirus testing laboratory at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, on February 19, 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Jane Barlow - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

"Son of omicron" is now dominant in U.S.

Eric Schank
This illustration depicts NASA's Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. Perseverance will land at the Red Planet's Jezero Crater (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

NASA wants two more Mars landers

Nicole Karlis
Dakota Access Pipeline (Getty Images)

Dakota Access Pipeline breaks the law

Joseph Lee - Grist
(Getty/kosmos111)

Mosquitoes are happy with climate change

Melissa Bailey - KFF Health News
Jada Pinkett Smith attends the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

What is alopecia and who gets it?

Nicole Karlis
Doctors and nurses taking care of patients in ICU at hospital during COVID-19 (Getty Images)

Two years with long COVID

Nicole Karlis
Aerial view showing a man walking past graves in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus on June 21, 2020. - The novel coronavirus has killed at least 464,423 people worldwide since the outbreak began in China last December, being Brazil Latin America's worsthit country with 49,976 deaths from 1,067,579 cases. (MICHAEL DANTAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Our unceremonious pandemic transition

Jessi Hanson-DeFusco
Smog over Los Angeles (Getty Images/Robert Landau)

Everyone fails WHO air quality standards

Adam Mahoney - Grist
Lowering Sperm Count (Getty Images/filo)

Plastic is causing an infertility crisis

Matthew Rozsa
Adult man in the dark (Getty Images/Jasmin Merdan)

How masculinity is killing men

Christopher Kilmartin, Ronald F. Levant
(Getty/Stuart Ritchie)

Can addiction tech curb overdose deaths?

Brian Rinker - KFF Health News
EMTs rush a patient to the emergency room at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on March 24, 2020, as the number of confirmed Massachusetts cases of coronavirus soars to near 5,000. (Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Health care responders support peers

Peter Andrey Smith - Undark
Face on Mars (Corbis via Getty Images)

The science of seeing faces in patterns

Thomas Nail
Close up of red plastic granules (Getty Images/LukaSvetic)

There's probably plastic in your blood

Matthew Rozsa
A photo taken on February 8, 2022 shows a box of Evusheld, a drug for antibody therapy developed by pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca for the prevention of COVID-19 in immunocompromised patients at the AstraZeneca facility for biological medicines in Södertälje, south of Stockholm, Sweden. - AstraZenecas new facility in Sweden located in Södertälje was inaugurated last December and is dedicated to the production of next generation biological drugs such as Evusheld, a Covid-19 preventative monoclonal antibody treatment for immunocompromised people. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Evusheld is becoming hard to find

Hannah Recht - KFF Health News
COVID-19 data concept (ismagilov/Getty Images)

Breakthrough cases no biggie for vaxxed

Matthew Rozsa
A view of Gazproms Amur Gas Processing Plant (Yuri SmityukTASS via Getty Images)

The climate crisis–Ukraine connection

Carl Pope
The RV Thomas G. Thompson, a research vessel owned and operated by the University of Washington. (Mark Harris for Undark)

Allegations on ill-fated science cruise

Mark Harris - Undark
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., right, and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, are seen on the fourth day of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Bidens nominee for Associate Justice to the Supreme Court, in Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, on Thursday, March 24, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

GOP doesn't grasp science of sex, gender

Matthew Rozsa
Oil refinery at the waterfront, Honolulu Harbor, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii Islands, USA (Getty Images/Glowimages)

Navy fuel leak in Hawaii poisons water

Eric Schank
Sperm surrounding egg, illustration (Getty Images/KTSDESIGN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

5 years until male birth control?

Nicole Karlis
Actress Jane Fonda joins "Social Compassion in Legislation" for a press conference to end offshore drilling at Main Beach on October 18, 2021 in Laguna Beach, California. (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images)

Jane Fonda takes on fossil fuel politics

Eve Andrews - Grist
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