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Satellite Orbiting Earth (Getty Images/3DSculptor)

Private satellites repurposed for war

Eric Schank
DNA, Atoms and particles (Getty Images/Yuichiro Chino)

Genomics' ethical gray areas abroad

Dyna Rochmyaningsih - Undark
Three generations of NIke air defense missiles showing, L-R Ajax (1953), Hercules (1958), and Zeus (1960), late 1960s or early 1970s. The Hercules & Zeus had nuclear warhead carrying capabilities. (Adam Glickman/Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

Why we still can't intercept ICBMs

Nicole Karlis
A woman depositing a plastic bottle in a recycling bin (Getty Images/Andrew Fox)

Are microbes the future of recycling?

Ula Chrobak - Undark
Firefighters and volunteers try to contain the flames destroying forests and wildlife in Corrientes, Argentina on February 19, 2022. (Joaquin Meabe/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

UN report warns of dire future for Earth

Eric Schank
Plastic contaminations in a glass of water (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Tire particles are destroying lakes

Matthew Rozsa
A patient infected by the covid-19 caused by the novel coronavirus receives treatment at the intensive care unit of a hospital in the southwestern Tunisian town of Gabes on August 26, 2020, as cases of infection surge there. (FETHI BELAID/AFP via Getty Images)

Last-resort Covid treatment inaccessible

Nicole Karlis
A U.S. Post Office truck sits parked in a suburban neighborhood February 10, 2022 in NORTH HALEDON, NJ. (Michael Bocchieri/Getty Images)

Postal Service invests in gas vehicles

Chad Small - Grist
A column of water and a cloud of smoke from a nuclear bomb test conducted by the United States. (CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

What nuclear winter would look like

Matthew Rozsa
Pregnant woman getting vaccine (Getty Images/ArtMarie)

COVID vax: Pregnant women left behind

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
Cal firefighter Travis Moore lights a backfire along highway 50 as the Caldor Fire burns near Lake Tahoe, CA on Tuesday August 31, 2021. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Climate change spurs 50% more wildfires

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Participants display Qanon flags at an event marking the 7th anniversary of the Pegida movement. The flag features the head of Russian President Putin, the Q for "Qanon" and the letter abbreviation WWG1WGA ("Where we go one we go all"). Meaning "Where one of us goes, we all go", or "One for all, all for one". With this, the Qanon followers evoke the cohesion of their community. (Matthias Rietschel/picture alliance via Getty Images)

QAnon followers are praising Putin

Nicole Karlis
Sleepy nurse on duty sitting in dark room, exhausted by extra work in hospital (Getty Images/Motortion)

Lack of sleep wreaks havoc on your brain

Matthew Rozsa
James Webb Space Telescope looking at galaxies (Photo illustration by NASA)

Finding ET through... pollutants?

Nicole Karlis
Electric vehicles are displayed before a news conference with White House Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about the American Jobs Plan and to highlight electric vehicles at Union Station near Capitol Hill on April 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Electric car chargers now being built

Shannon Osaka - Grist
Coronavirus and the Brain (Getty Images/Amornrat Phuchom)

Is long Covid making you depressed?

Matthew Rozsa
Skull wearing headphones (Getty Images/Digital Vision)

Using sound to regenerate bones

Matthew Rozsa
Deer Mouse (Peromyscus Maniculatus) (Getty Images/Dr. William J. Weber.)

60% human diseases originate in animals

Jim Robbins - KFF Health News
Medical professional at reception with patients waiting in lobby at hospital (Getty Images/Luis Alvarez)

Politics infects public health

Vignesh Ramachandran - KFF Health News
People walk along The High Line above the Meatpacking District on June 9, 2017 in New York City. With a full schedule of conventions and major sporting events taking place around the island of Manhattan each week, millions of global visitors will converge on New York City this year. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images (George Rose/Getty Images)

Green cities, gentrified cities?

Laura Kiesel
The Yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, 1793. Carriages rumbled through the streets to pick up the dying and the dead. Woodcut shows Stephen Girard on errand of mercy. (Getty Images / Bettmann / Contributor)

The 1793 pandemic that foreshadowed 2020

Matthew Rozsa
Doctor taking patient's blood pressure (Getty Images/Siri Stafford)

Doctors overlook cure for hypertension

Mary Chris Jaklevic - Undark
Silhouette Depress Woman Sitting And Hold Smartphone (Getty Images / Krisda Ponchaipulltawee / EyeEm)

An abuse survivor's C-PTSD journey

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef outside Cairns Australia during a mass bleaching event, thought to have been caused by heat stress due to warmer water temperatures as a result of global climate change. (Getty Images/Brett Monroe Garner)

Climate change too fast for adaptation

Diana Kruzman - Grist
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