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Passengers wear face masks to protect against the spread of the Coronavirus as they arrive on a flight from Asia at Los Angeles International Airport, California, on January 29, 2020. (Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden lifts travel ban amid COVID surge

Kenneth Tran
Little Sad Boy Kid Student In Protective Face Mask Looking Out Of School Yellow Bus Window (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Anna Kraynova/EyeEm)

What kids wish adults knew about school

Gail Cornwall
A United Airlines passenger jet prepares to land at Reagan National Airport on February 5, 2020 in Washington, DC (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

The messy truth about carbon footprints

Sam Grover - Undark
Scientists are trees in the forest (Getty Images/Thirawatana Phaisalratana)

Can planting trees save the world?

Matthew Rozsa
"The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness" by Suzanne O'Sullivan (Photo illustration by Salon/Jonathan Greet/Pantheon)

"We're pushed into overdiagnosing"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies at a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. The committee will hear testimony about the Biden administration's ongoing plans to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and Delta variant. (Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

Fauci and NIH back booster shots

Sarah Jane Tribble, Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
Mark Zuckerberg (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Online engagement drives misinformation

Filippo Menczer - The Conversation
Serious upset little boy wearing a protective face mask looking through a school fence shaking it (Getty Images/Juanmonino)

Our kids are not alright

Hansa Bhargava, David Hill
A sign displays the types of COVID-19 vaccination doses available at a Walgreens mobile bus clinic on June 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. The United States will miss President Joe Biden's goal of delivering at least one coronavirus vaccine dose to 70 percent of adults by the July 4th holiday. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

My life among the unvaccinated

Lala Tanmoy Das
Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. (NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez)

The Webb Telescope: Hubble on steroids

Marcia Rieke - The Conversation
Two vaccine syringes (Getty Images/golibtolibov)

FDA panel rejects mass booster plan

Nicole Karlis
Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers gathered at Indiana University's Sample Gates to protest against mandatory Covid vaccinations IU is requiring for students, staff and faculty during the upcoming fall semester. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

26 states roll back public health powers

Lauren Weber, Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News
Marin County Fire medic Kevin Stone prepares a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to be administered to staff at The Tamalpais Marin assisted living facility in Greenbrae, California. (Jessica Christian/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Why do anti-vaxxers refuse the vaccine?

S. Shyam Sundar - The Conversation
Man refusing to get injection of vaccine (Getty Images)

COVID-19 survivors refusing vaccines

Matthew Rozsa
Allergic man blowing on wipe in a park on spring season a sunny day (Getty Images/Pheelings Media)

Is it a cold, allergies or COVID-19?

Nicole Karlis
Doctor giving first aid bandage after vaccination to senior woman (Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images)

Why you can still trust medicine

Venktesh Ramnath - The Conversation
A pall of smog lies over the Los Angeles skyline. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Carbon removal facility is open

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Religious Judaic objects used for prayer - a shofar, tallis, and prayer book. (Getty Images)

Humility: It's good for your health

Matthew Rozsa
Originally classified as an asteroid, Oumuamua is an object estimated to be about 230 by 35 meters (800 ft x 100 ft) in size, travelling through our solar system. (Getty Images/Aunt_Spray)

A new quarrel over an "alien" asteroid

Nicole Karlis
Damage in the city of Pointe-Aux-Chenes, near montegut, Louisiana on August 30, 2021 after Hurricane Ida made landfall. - The death toll from Hurricane Ida was expected to climb "considerably," Louisiana's governor warned Monday, as rescuers combed through the "catastrophic" damage wreaked as it tore through the southern United States as a Category 4 storm. (MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images)

Young people think humanity is "doomed"

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

Why at-home rapid tests cost so much

Hannah Norman - KFF Health News
Man on the cracked ground, global warming concept (Getty Images/Anton Petrus)

Europe is about to get hotter and drier

Matthew Rozsa
Cars sit abandoned on the flooded Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx following a night of heavy wind and rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida on September 02, 2021 in New York City. Numerous people were killed in New York and tornadoes did heavy damage to parts of New Jersey as the evening storm caught many off guard with the severity of its rain and wind and flooding. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Why Hurricane Ida broke rainfall records

Russ Schumacher - The Conversation
Embers fall around a photographer as the Creek Fire rapidly expands on September 8, 2020 near Shaver Lake, California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Wildfire smoke is a serious health risk

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
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