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Laughing at Twitter (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Do Twitter dunks amplify conservatives?

Matthew Rozsa
Gun and Coronavirus COVID-19 spores (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why is gun violence surging?

Matthew Rozsa
MOND models—which don’t require dark matter—have not previously been able to reproduce the temperature variations measured in the cosmic microwave background (shown here), a relic from the big bang. But now researchers have created a MOND-inspired model that matches these data just as well as dark matter models do. (WMAP Science Team/NASA)

Perhaps dark matter doesn't exist at all

Nicole Karlis
People take photos of water filling the entrance of The Plaza Shops in Battery Park in New York on October 30, 2012 as New Yorkers cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The storm left large parts of New York City without power and transportation. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

Toxic waste is leaking into our water

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
Members of the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the US, hold a swastika burning after a rally on April 21, 2018 in Draketown, Georgia. | Twitter logo seen displayed on a smartphone (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Twitter tackled right-wing hate

Matthew Rozsa
Magnet Over Earth (Getty Images/CSA Images)

Is Earth inside a magnetic tunnel?

Matthew Rozsa
Coronavirus mutations, concept (Getty images/VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

How serious is the delta plus variant?

Nicole Karlis
Pigeons (Iain Blake)

When humans abandoned our pigeon pets

Nicole Karlis
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Matthew Pearce/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Texas bans popular cannabis extract

Kevin Reynolds - The Texas Tribune
Cute dog running outside (Getty Images/Capuski)

ADHD manifests in dogs, too

Matthew Rozsa
Solar panels on the green hills (Getty Images/LeoPatrizi)

There's really no "energy crisis"

Carl Pope
Brain with eyeglasses (Getty Images/Jolygon)

The brain has a "backup system"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A senior patient using a mask looking through the window at the hospital (Getty Images)

Ageism in health care harms seniors

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
Drenched in pig's blood, Carrie White, played by Sissy Spacek, stares in shock in Brian De Palma's horror film 'Carrie', 1976. (Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

Gory movies are... good for you?

Matthew Rozsa
A child reading braille (Marilyn Nieves / Getty Images)

Students can learn with their mouths

Alyssa Paparella - Massive Science
Looking up a word in the dictionary (Getty Images/JGI/Jamie Grill)

"Climate crisis" is now in dictionaries

Kate Yoder - Grist
Photomicrograph of algae (Getty Images/NNehring)

Using algae for stroke recovery

Nicole Karlis
World and money burning (Getty Images/dimdimich)

The 1% are destroying Earth, not you

Matthew Rozsa
A bustling hallway in the emergency department at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital due to coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in Oceanside, New York (Jeffrey Basinger/Newsday via Getty Images)

A rare COVID side effect harms children

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
Scott Peters, Kathleen Rice and Kurt Schrader (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The Dems selling us out to Big Pharma

Charlotte Kilpatrick
Zebrafish (Getty Images/kazakovmaksim)

Zebrafish need "love hormones"

Kareem Clark - Massive Science
3D render of a man with strong pain in head (Getty Images/peterschreiber.media)

Is Havana syndrome real? Probably not

Matthew Rozsa
Upset child with head in hands sitting on staircase (Getty Images/BrianAJackson)

Children are in a mental health crisis

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/Emmanuel Dunand)

"Mobility justice" post COVID

Dan Zukowski - Grist
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