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Science & Health (page 167)

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Empty pews and stained glass windows in church (Getty Images/ Monashee Frantz)

Can churches help those in crisis?

Brad R. Fulton - The Conversation
#FreeBritney activists protest outside Courthouse in Los Angeles during Conservatorship Hearing on April 27, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)

Eugenics legacy in conservatorships

Michaela Kathleen Curran - The Conversation
Scientists with surgical gloves holds two different Coronavirus of different color in the hand (Getty Images/Aitor Diago)

How the mu variant died off

Nicole Karlis
The sun sets behind power lines in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)

Dangerous heat exposure has tripled

Cascade Tuholske, Chris Funk, Kathryn Grace - The Conversation
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ALMA, in which ESO is a partner, and the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have imaged GW Orionis, a triple star system with a peculiar inner region. Unlike the flat planet-forming discs we see around many stars, GW Orionis features a warped disc, deformed by the movements of the three stars at its centre. The ALMA image (left) shows the disc’s ringed structure, with the innermost ring separated from the rest of the disc. The SPHERE observations (right) allowed astronomers to see for the first time the shadow of this innermost ring on the rest of the disc, which made it possible for them to reconstruct its warped shape. (ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), ESO/Exeter/Kraus et al.)

A planet orbiting three stars?

Nicole Karlis
A bulldozer moves sand as oil is washed up on Huntington State Beach after a 126,000-gallon oil spill from an offshore oil platform on October 3, 2021 in Huntington Beach, California. The spill forced the closure of the popular Great Pacific Airshow with authorities urging people to avoid beaches in the vicinity. (Nick Ut/Getty Images)

The oil nightmare in the Pacific

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/agrobacter/Google)

Climate fears spark internet searches

Kate Yoder - Grist
A protester dressed as a scary nurse holds a mispelled sign that reads "Submitt" at an anti-vaccination protest rally near City Hall, following the Los Angeles City Council's vote earlier this week on drafting an ordinance requiring proof of vaccination to enter many indoor public spaces in Los Angeles, on August 14, 2021. (DAVID MCNEW/AFP via Getty Images)

Career trouble for nurses who refuse vax

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
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A sign for the Food And Drug Administration is seen outside of the headquarters on July 20, 2020 in White Oak, Maryland. (Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)

The case to expand medication abortion

Destiny Lopez - Undark
A couple sit next to each other in a doctor's office and listen carefully to their doctor. (Getty Images/FatCamera)

Long-term couples share health traits

Daniel Karel
People display signs during the Kentucky Freedom Rally at the capitol building on August 28, 2021 in Frankfort, Kentucky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Individualistic societies fail on COVID

Matthew Rozsa
Senior man playing with puzzle (Getty Images/LightFieldStudios)

"Dementia brings up everything"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Britney Spears onstage performing at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards held at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in New York City on September 6, 2001. (Scott Gries/ImageDirect/Getty Images)

Britney's saga can happen to anyone

Christopher Magoon - KFF Health News
Rear view of large group of students attending a class (Getty Images)

Afraid to teach students to think

Christina Wyman
"Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion" by Wendy Suzuki (Photo illustration by Salon/Matt Simpkins/Atria Books)

Can you teach your brain to worry well?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Coronavirus and the Brain (Getty Images/Amornrat Phuchom)

Even mild COVID cases can affect brain

Jessica Bernard - The Conversation
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Healthy people shouldn't skip vaccine

Richard Bloomer - The Conversation
Mother Holding Autistic Daughter (Getty Images/SeventyFour)

Controversy over an autism "treatment"

Matthew Rozsa
Patient speaking with doctor about scans (Getty Images/zoranm)

Low health literacy: a "silent pandemic"

Talya Miron-Shatz
Students taking a test (Getty Images/kali9)

Opinion: AP test thwarts test takers

Jeanine Pfeiffer - Undark
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People clap, cheer, and display protest signs during the Kentucky Freedom Rally at the capitol building on August 28, 2021 in Frankfort, Kentucky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Meet the anti-maskers... of 1847

Matthew Rozsa
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about combatting the coronavirus pandemic in the State Dining Room of the White House on September 9, 2021. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Dems' final shot at major climate policy

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Human footprint in the desert (Getty Images/Guido Dingemans, De Eindredactie)

New evidence of early human migration

Matthew Robert Bennett, Sally Christine Reynolds - The Conversation
Sunset over crashing ocean currents (Gordon Scammell/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Climate change is messing up currents

Matthew Rozsa
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