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A Mass Patriots for Freedom Rally was held on Beacon Street in front of the State House in Boston, with hundreds protesting against mandatory COVID-19 vaccines on September 17, 2021. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Political gap in vaccinations remains

Matthew Rozsa
Grenoble University Hospital Michallon Hospital Department Of Neurology Unit 'Movement Disorder'. Mri Of A 30 Year Old Patient Suffering From Dystonia, Treated By A High Frequency Deep Brain Stimulation By Implantation Of Electrodes At The Level Of The Internal Paladium. These Electrodes Are Linked To A Neurostimulator, Box Implanted Under The Clavicle. (BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images)

The brain implant that zaps bad thoughts

Nicole Karlis
Doctor examining scan (Getty Images)

Review: illnesses influenced by culture

Elizabeth Svoboda - Undark
Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. (NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez)

NASA's new telescope, explained

Chris Impey - The Conversation
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COVID-19 experimental antiviral drug MOLNUPIRAVIR (Getty Images/Plyushkin)

New COVID pill could be a "game-changer"

Nicole Karlis
A layer of pollution can be seen hovering over Los Angeles, California (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

Environmental justice vs. LA Olympics

Adam Mahoney - Grist
(Getty/Ociacia)

Autonomous robots: worse than the bomb?

James Dawes - The Conversation
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. (Getty Images)

Sen. Manchin may derail US climate plan

Michael Oppenheimer - The Conversation
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A nurse attends to a COVID-19 patient that is wearing a CPAP helmet while he is moved out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Pope John XXIII Hospital on April 7, 2020 in Bergamo, Italy. (Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

Sleep apnea and the failure of evolution

Matthew Rozsa
Medical syringe is seen with Moderna company logo displayed on a screen in the background (Photo Illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Moderna still refuses to share recipe

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
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COVID can't stop solar’s epic growth

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
George Washington; the SARS-CoV-2 virus. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Washington handled a pandemic

Matthew Rozsa
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Dog sitting in a dry sandy desert (Getty Images/K_Thalhofer)

Climate change comes for the dogs

Matthew Rozsa
A healthcare worker wearing a personal protective equipment (PPE) attends to Covid-19 patient wearing oxygen mask inside a Covid-19 care center set up at shehnai banquet hall attached with Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital (LNJP) one of the largest COVID-19 facilities. (Naveen Sharma/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Immunity via infection vs. vaccination

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
Author Steven Pinker (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Steven Pinker on "Rationality"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Close-Up of crab on rock at beach, San Diego, United States (Getty)

New species stayed years after heatwave

Erica Nielsen, Sam Walkes - The Conversation
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Bunny the talking Dog (Instagram/@what_about_bunny)

Do dogs miss us when we leave?

Nicole Karlis
An empty classroom (Getty/ martinedoucet)

Classrooms face an overheating crisis

Paul Chinowsky - The Conversation
Prescription medication is strewn about, with pill bottles in the deep background. (Getty Images)

Why drugs work differently for everyone

C. Michael White - The Conversation
General view during the Global Climate Strike March on October 02, 2020 in Durban, South Africa. According to media reports, the group demanded that individuals and governments must take stronger action against the effects of climate change and the emittance of the greenhouse gas. (Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Capitalism will not fix climate change

Jeremy Lent
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Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan as members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus make a visit to the institute in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on February 3, 2021. (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Scientists debate lab leak

Daniel Karel
The Green Bank Telescope is seen in Green Bank, West Virginia on May 28, 2018. Green Bank is part of the US Radio Quiet Zone, where wireless telecommunications signals are banned to prevent transmissions interfering with a number of radio telescopes in the area. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

The mirage of a town without cellphones

Sarah Scoles - Undark
Convergence: Courage In A Crisis (NETFLIX)

Did COVID secretly unite us?

Matthew Rozsa
An illustration of two ivory billed wood pecker (Getty Images/Imagezoo)

23 gone, countless more to save

John R. Platt - The Revelator
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