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Human Evolution Illustration (Getty Images/Man_Half-tube)

The evolution culture war quietly ends

Matthew Rozsa
Firefighters push down a wall while battling against a burning apartment complex in Paradise, north of Sacramento, California on November 09, 2018 (Getty/Josh Edelson)

PG&E wants to bury power lines

Maddie Stone - Grist
Michael Spatz, L, a volunteer with the Alexandria medical reserve corps, helps AshaLetia Henderson through her first positive-case call as a coronavirus contact tracer, where the Alexandria Health Department set up offices for coronavirus contact tracing and investigations at the Oswald Durant Arts Center in Alexandria, VA, on Wednesday, June 24, 2020. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Fatigue works against contact tracing

Amanda Michelle Gomez - KFF Health News
Futuristic Nuclear Fusion Particles Simulation concept (iStock/Getty Images)

Nuclear fusion sees the light

Matthew Rozsa
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The Pfizer logo is seen reflected in a drop on a needle (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

What "FDA approval" really means

Nicole Karlis
Texas Capitol building (Mark Thompson/Getty Images)

More Texas workers dying of extreme heat

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Shot of a young man holding a crate of freshly picked produce on a farm (Getty Images)

High temps put farmworkers at risk

Miranda Green, Heidi De Marco - KFF Health News
Medical syringes are seen with Pfizer company logo displayed on a screen in the background in this illustration photo taken in Poland on October 12, 2020. (Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

FDA approval means it is mandate time

Jon Skolnik
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Vials and a medical syringe seen displayed in front of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States logo. FDA finds the COVID-19 vaccine. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Don't fear "unapproved" medicine

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Fresh breast milk in the breast pump milk container (Karl Tapales/Getty Images)

A push for donor breast milk

Sandy Ong - Undark
"We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation" by Eric M. Garcia (Photo illustration by Salon/Kristin Herbruck/Mariner Books)

Who speaks for the autistic?

Matthew Rozsa
Antidepressants | Covid-19 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

An anti-depressant to treat COVID?

Nicole Karlis
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Trash in the ocean water (Getty Images/Juan Camilo Bernal)

Environmental treaties US should ratify

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
A health worker wearing a personal protective equipment suit (PPE) take the cover off a manhole for inspection in Marseille. The COMETE unit (Covid Marseille Environmental Testing Expertise) collects samples of wastewater at various points in the city to determine the neighborhoods, schools or certain buildings contaminated by Covid-19 through testing of these samples. (Denis Thaust/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

A new COVID detection tool: poop

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News
A group gathered at an anti-vaccine protest (Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

The psychology of anti-vaccination

Doreen Dodgen-Magee
Box of vaccine vials (Getty images/Iryna Veklich)

Hoarding the vaccine at our own peril

Charlotte Kilpatrick
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Tuli, 11, walks long distances every morning and evening to collect drinking water with her mother and aunt. Her school is closed due to the coronavirus pandemic and she passes her time doing household work with her mother. All visuals by ZAKIR HOSSAIN CHOWDHURY for UNDARK (Zakir Hossain Chowdhury / Undark)

Long walks for fresh water in Bangladesh

Zakir Hossain Chowdhury - Undark
Perseverance rover on Mars (NASA)

Mystery of the missing Mars rock solved

Nicole Karlis
A coronavirus patient lies on a bed inside in a ward at Al-Ataa hospital. (Ameer Al Mohammedaw/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Can the vaccinated get "long COVID"?

Nicole Karlis
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Debate erupts over women’s libido drugs

Teresa Carr - Undark
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A doctor prepares syringes that contain the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 at a mobile vaccination center in the Markkleeberg suburb town hall on May 10, 2021 in Leipzig, Germany. Germany has succeeded in accelerating its nationwide vaccinations in recent weeks. Approximately one third of the population has received a first dose. (Jens Schlueter/Getty Images)

Rush to boosters sparks confusion

Sarah Jane Tribble - KFF Health News
Virus Cells (Catherine McQueen/Getty Images)

How HIV research helped fight COVID-19

Matthew Rozsa
Blood is drawn from a young woman ( Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images)

COVID skeptics want blood from unvaxxed

JoNel Aleccia - KFF Health News
Young woman behind prison bars (Getty Images)

Prisons are breeding COVID

Danielle Wallace - The Conversation
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