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Dr Warren Hern in an exam room inside his clinic on January 31, 2022 in Boulder, Colorado. He has been performing abortions since the 1970's. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Abortion bans returning us to Dark Ages

Nicole Karlis
Woman doctor gynecologist consulting a patient (Getty Images/Svetlana Repnitskaya)

OB-GYNs leaving Texas over abortion ban

Nicole Karlis
Senior male track athletes running sprint on track during race (Getty Images/Thomas Barwick)

Is there a limit to life expectancy?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Father holding newborn baby at hospital (Getty Images/SelectStock)

Both parents need paid leave experts say

Nicole Karlis
A drone image shows the dome of Tropicana Field which has been torn open due to Hurricane Milton in St. Petersburg, Florida, on October 10, 2024. (MIGUEL J. RODRIGUEZ CARRILLO/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden takes on Milton misinformation

Matthew Rozsa
The Northern Lights are seen above the Columbia River Gorge from Chanticleer Point Lookout in the early morning hours of May 11, 2024 in Latourell, Oregon. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)

Geomagnetic storm to bring auroras again

Matthew Rozsa
Curious Holstein dairy cows feed on silage in a freestall barn at a dairy farm in San Joaquin Valley, California, USA. (Ed Young/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Experts worried humans getting bird flu

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Palm trees bend in the wind after Hurricane Milton made landfall in Brandon, Florida on October 9, 2024. (MIGUEL J. RODRIGUEZ CARRILLO/AFP via Getty Images)

Milton unleashes deadly tornadoes

Nicole Karlis
Nicole Fahey, six months pregnant, receives a Pfizer vaccination booster shot on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

COVID shots during pregnancy are crucial

Jackie Fortiér - KFF Health News
Waves crash along St. Pete Pier in St. Petersburg as Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall tonight on October 9, 2024 in Florida. (BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images)

Milton hits — more super-storms coming?

Matthew Rozsa
Hundreds take shelter at Virgil Mills Elementary School ahead of Hurricane Milton, in Palmetto, Florida, United States on October 09, 2024. People spent the night at a school with their pets, sleeping on air mattresses. (Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Hurricane Milton closing in on Florida

Marin Scotten
Long covid activists attend the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies hearing on the "Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request for the National Institutes of Health," in Dirksen building on Thursday, May 23, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Will XEC be this winter’s COVID variant?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
A satellite image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Milton on Tuesday October 08, 2024. (NOAA NESDIS STAR GOES-East/GEOCOLOR)

Climate change fueling Hurricane Milton

Matthew Rozsa
James Webb Telescope and Pillars of Creation (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/NASA)

James Webb telescope a gift to humanity

Matthew Rozsa
A person walks past downed power lines as people deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on October 05, 2024 in Greenwood, South Carolina. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Climate change jacking up insurance cost

Matthew Rozsa
Residents board up a sea shell store ahead of Hurricane Milton's expected landfall in the middle of this week in Treasure Island, Florida on October 7, 2024. (BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images)

Emergency declared over Hurricane Milton

Matthew Rozsa
A woman entering a voting polling place. (YinYang / Getty Images)

Can we trust polling data?

Matthew Rozsa
Father holding his son hand walking him back to school, boy is wearing protective face mask and carry a backpack in his shoulders. (Getty Images/Juanmonino)

Back to school for long COVID kids

Nicole Karlis
Emoji badges (Getty Images/Dimitri Otis)

Neuroscience of simultaneous emotions

Anthony Gianni Vaccaro - The Conversation
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 06: A view of Beverly Hills seen from Elysian Park on September 6, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. This week's heat wave hits parts of Southern California with triple-digit temperatures. (Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Images)

October heat wave sets records in West

Matthew Rozsa
Officials continue to conduct operation and inspect the area after the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, United States on February 17, 2023. (US Environmental Protection Agency / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Lingering toxins from train crash

Andrew J. Whelton - The Conversation
A staff member packs overdose prevention kits, including Narcan nasal spray used to treat narcotic overdoses in an emergency situation, at St. Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction in New York City on April 24, 2023. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Overdoses decline but not for everyone

Elizabeth Hlavinka
LEWISVILLE, NC - March 11: Susan Stevens shows off a prescription for Suboxone her daughter Toria filled the day before she died at her home in Lewisville, NC, Monday, March 11, 2019. Stevens lost her 22-year-old daughter Toria to an opioid overdose last year after years of her daughter struggling with addiction following a violent sexual assault. (Photo by Eamon Queeney/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

We must remove drug treatment barriers

Jennifer Carroll
Artist’s impression of a sub-Earth-mass planet orbiting Barnard’s star (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Relatively close exoplanet discovered

Matthew Rozsa
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