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Science & Health (page 152)

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Cannabis plant (Getty Images)

New study: Cannabis may prevent COVID

Brett Bachman
Sunset over crashing ocean currents (Gordon Scammell/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Oceans in 2021: Hotter than ever

Kenny Stancil - Common Dreams
Rat poison trap box (Getty Images/richard johnson)

Animal traps: A moral, scientific debate

Michael Schulson - Undark
Close up of test tubes with toxic labels (Getty Images)

8 newly-flagged carcinogens: report

Joseph Winters - Grist
Man talking to his dog (Getty Images/Westend61)

Your dog has potential to be bilingual

Nicole Karlis
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SCOTUS messy vaccine mandate hearing

Julie Rovner - KFF Health News
US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks about on the third plank of his Build Back Better economic recovery plan for working families, on July 21, 2020, in New Castle, Delaware. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Is BBB a "secret" Green New Deal?

Carl Pope
Worried healthcare worker (Getty Images/FG Trade)

The horror of hospital work amid omicron

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet
Worried businessman in dark suit sitting at office desk with laptop and notepad being overloaded with work. (Getty Images/Iuliia Bondar)

"We live in a burnout culture"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A young sad adult man sitting alone on wooden bench (Getty Images/FotoDuets)

How to overcome regret

J. Kim Penberthy - The Conversation
Young woman with drug addiction (Getty Images/seksan Mongkhonkhamsao)

The phone volunteers stopping OD deaths

Mike Fitzgerald
Growth of trees in drought crisis (Getty Images/R_Tee)

Climate change comes for the shrinks

Nicole Karlis
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Calif. pushes for at-home STI tests

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
Empty prison hallway (Getty Images)

Decarceration is public health

Eric Reinhart - Undark
A test sample tube labeled 'COVID-19 Omicron variant' (Getty Images/David Talukdar)

What comes after the omicron hump

Matthew Rozsa
Jennifer Lawrence as Kate Dibiasky and Leonardo DiCaprio as Dr. Randall Mindy in "Don't Look Up" (Niko Tavernise/Netflix)

The existential panic is real

Ariella Cook-Shonkoff
(Getty/Shutterstock/Salon)

"Dataraising": donating with data

Lucy Bernholz - The Conversation
Pregnant Woman Receiving Coronavirus Vaccine Injection (Getty Images)

A new light on vaccination and pregnancy

Matthew Rozsa
Puffins (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Derrick Z. Jackson
Steve Farzam, chief operating officer of 911 COVID Testing, shows a multiple antigen test for flu and COVID-19 on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 at the site near the Getty Center in Los Angeles where a teenage boy tested positive for "Flurona. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

"Flurona": the co-infection, explained

Nicole Karlis
All that's left of 1947 is a headache and a job for the cleaners. This celebrant, who celebrated wildly and well at the Palm Beach Club in New York City, is just a job for the sweepers. (Getty Images/Bettmann/Contributor)

Science tries, fails to cure hangovers

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/AP/Salon)

How restaurant chains can cut pollution

Joseph Winters - Grist
A health worker fills up a syringe with a vaccines dose against COVID-19 as people queue at the Kya Sands informal settlement to be vaccinated by the Witkoppen clinic in Johannesburg on December 8, 2021. - Anti-Covid vaccines may lose effectiveness against Omicron, but one more dose could remedy this. Initial elements, notably given by the Pfizer laboratory, shed light on the capacity of the new variant to resist vaccination. Omicron is "probably not sufficiently neutralized after two doses", admitted Wednesday the groups Pfizer and BioNTech, whose anti-Covid vaccine is given in two injections. (EMMANUEL CROSET/AFP via Getty Images)

Omicron is dying fast in South Africa

Matthew Rozsa
Actress Betty White | Hundreds are gathered at the "Freedom Rally" to protest the vaccination mandate in New York City, United States on September 13, 2021. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Anti-vaxxers co-opt Betty White's death

Nicole Karlis
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