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Should doctors dispense drugs?

Michael Schulson - Undark
The central part of Mount Kenya with Batian (front) and Nelion (back) and typical afroalpine vegetation of Giant Lobelias and Giant Groundsel. The western rock face with the melting glaciers of Mt. Kenya. (Martin Zwick/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Africa's three glaciers are all melting

Matthew Rozsa
ARTIST’S RENDITION OF A NEWLY-DISCOVERED JUPITER-LIKE EXOPLANET ORBITING A WHITE DWARF, OR DEAD STAR. THIS SYSTEM IS EVIDENCE THAT PLANETS CAN SURVIVE THEIR HOST STAR’S EXPLOSIVE RED GIANT PHASE AND IS THE VERY FIRST CONFIRMED PLANETARY SYSTEM THAT SERVES AS AN ANALOG TO THE FATE OF THE SUN AND JUPITER IN OUR OWN SOLAR SYSTEM. (W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko)

A glimpse into our solar system's future

Nicole Karlis
Dentist working with patient while dental assistant is helping around, both wearing a protective gowns, face masks and gloves during COVID-19 pandemic (Getty Images/Kosamtu)

Hygienists brace for practice law battle

Giles Bruce - KFF Health News
Las Vegas Blvd. (The Strip) at night (Getty Images/Evan Semones/cosmophotography)

Vegas hosted a climate denier conference

Eve Andrews - Grist
In this handout images provided by the International Federation of Red Cross Japan, A member of the Japanese Red Cross team walks through what is left of the city of Otsuchi, after an 9.0 magnitude strong earthquake struck on March 11, off the coast of north-eastern Japan, March 14, 2011 in Otsuchi, Japan. The quake struck offshore at 2:46pm local time, triggering a tsunami wave of up to 10 metres which engulfed large parts of north-eastern Japan. On Tuesday there was a third explosion from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant causing fears for the radiation levels being emitted from the plant. (Patrick Fuller/Japanese Red Cross/IFRC via Getty Images)

Fukushima's animals are... thriving?

Matthew Rozsa
Close up of a Pfizer booster vaccine on the day that the vaccination campaign with Pfizer's third booster shot has started on October 6, 2021 in Utrecht, Netherlands. (Patrick van Katwijk/BSR Agency/Getty Images)

The case for "mix and match" boosters

Nicole Karlis
A medical worker shows a COVID-19 At-Home Specimen Collection kit (Xinhua/Zou Zheng via Getty Images)

Testing turnaround times still uneven

Rae Ellen Bichell - KFF Health News
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Book review: How our planet grew so warm

Andru Okun - Undark
Vaccine (Getty Images)

A universal vaccine for coronaviruses

Matthew Rozsa
Coronavirus on the brain (Getty Images)

COVID's impact on our sense of time

Philip Gable, Chris Wendel - The Conversation
Radio tower emitting (Getty Images/alengo)

A mysterious repeating chirp from space

Nicole Karlis
Woman relaxing while listening to music (Getty Images/PhotoAlto/Sigrid Olsson)

This is your brain on noise

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Public health workers vaccinate people at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Museu da Republica (Museum of the Republic) on May 24, 2021 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Learning from Brazil’s vaccine success

Kiratiana Freelon - Undark
Plastic bag vacuum-sealed short ribs (Getty Images/Annick Vanderschelden Photography)

There's plastic in your meat

Matthew Rozsa
A passenger who just landed from New York on an Alitalia flight undergoes a rapid antigen swab test for COVID-19 on December 9, 2020 at a testing station set up at Rome's Fiumicino airport. (ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)

Could my COVID test be wrong?

Nicole Karlis
Rochelle dos Santos embraces her daughter, who was born with microcephaly in 2016 after dos Santos contracted Zika during her pregnancy in midwest Brazil. (Ueslei Marcelina for Undark)

The forgotten children affected by Zika

Mariana Lenharo - Undark
Medical Billing (Getty Images)

California health care gap widens

Mark Kreidler - Capital & Main
A team of ecologists and ecology students from Kasetsart University collect wingspan data from a wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat at an on site lab near the Khao Chong Pran Cave on September 12, 2020 in Ratchaburi, Thailand. A team of researchers consisting of scientists, ecologists, and officers from Thailand's National Park Department have been conducting bat sampling collection missions throughout Thailand's countryside in an effort to understand the origins of COVID-19. (Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images)

WHO forms team to find COVID's origins

Daniel Karel
Spaceship Earth in Epcot construction at Disney World, 1996 (Chip HIRES/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Disney's vision for a new kind of city

Alex Krieger - The Conversation
A vehicle passes through a flooded street. All the major roads are flooded after the heavy rain during monsoon at Kolkata, West Bengal, India (Dibakar Roy/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

How climate change will flood our cities

Matthew Rozsa
Storm clouds in Arizona. (Getty Images / John Sirlin / EyeEm)

Climate change making monsoons extreme

Diana Zamora-Reyes, Christopher L. Castro - The Conversation
Man sleeping in office (Getty Images/South_agency)

Startup culture is demonizing sleep

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Vials and a box of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine (Algi Febri Sugita/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

FDA panel says yes to Moderna boosters

Matthew Rozsa
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