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Mummified Remains in Tomb of the Golden Mummies (Getty Images/Ron Watts)

The thorny ethics of museum mummies

Doug Struck - Undark
The waters of Lake Michigan crashes over the pedestrian walk as fog rolls through the Chicago skyline in Chicago, Illinois. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

Big cities are becoming more segregated

Adam Mahoney - Grist
Petrified tree trunks beside the rio Manati near Iquitos, Peru (iStock/Getty Images)

Secrets of Peru's petrified forest

Herb Meyer, Deborah Woodcock - The Conversation
This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova explosion with a rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in its center. In October 2017, astronomers detected the merger of two neutron stars some 130 million light-years away. (Getty/NASA)

A 967-year-old astronomy mystery solved

Nicole Karlis
Young Woman With Stomach Pain (Getty Images/Bundit Binsuk/EyeEm)

This is why your stomach hurts

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Three vials with different vaccines against Covid-19 by (L-R) Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca stand on a table. (THOMAS KIENZLE/AFP via Getty Images)

Which COVID vaccine is best?

Wen Shi Lee, Hyon Xhi Tan - The Conversation
(Leonardo Carrato/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Study warns of severe drying for Amazon

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
Cute Cocker Spaniel Puppy (Getty Images)

Does your dog love you?

Matthew Rozsa
#FreeBritney activists protest at Los Angeles Grand Park during a conservatorship hearing for Britney Spears on June 23, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)

This model may help others like Britney

Laura Guidry
Teenage Climate Crisis activists from various climate activism groups protesting. (Ollie Millington/Getty Images)

How to make GOP care about climate

Kate Yoder - Grist
Scientist pipetting a sample of a new drug formula into a vial during a clinical trial with the infectious disease on the computer screen. (Getty Images)

Using mRNA vaccines to cure HIV

Zoe Sadozai Malik
The Glass Fire burns behind Merus Wines vineyards in Napa Valley, California on September 27, 2020. - The Glass fire grew to 2,500 Acres on the evening of September 27. A heat wave and dry winds create critical weather conditions and mandatory evacuations are in order. (SAMUEL CORUM/AFP via Getty Images)

Heat and air pollution: a dangerous duo

Alexandria Herr - Grist
Health officials carry a dead body of coronavirus (Covid-19) victim on a stretcher to container morgues by the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Help for kids who lost parents to COVID

JoNel Aleccia - KFF Health News
Operating room staff performing hospital surgery (Getty Images/Shannon Fagan)

Modern-day segregation in hospitals

John M. Hollingsworth, Ekow N. Yankah, Brahmajee K. Nallamothu
A mobile vaccination site is seen on Flatbush Avenue on June 09, 2021 in the Flatbush neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

The future of mobile vax clinics

Nicole Karlis
Radio transmission to the Milky way galaxy and star dusts in deep space (Getty Images)

No more "mystery of missing matter"

Emmanuel Fonseca - The Conversation
A beneficiary receives a dose of Covid-19 vaccine, at a district hospital, on June 24, 2021 in Noida, India. (Sunil Ghosh/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

Unvaxxed nation: Deaths are now divided

Jon Skolnik
Passengers pet dogs at Dmitri Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk International Airport as part of the Emotional Support Dog project (Andrei SamsonovTASS via Getty Images)

Support animals not cleared for take-off

Nicole Karlis
Abstract illustration of happy nonbinary / transgender person (iStock/Getty Images)

Trans youth before trans health care

Jules Gill-Peterson - The Conversation
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the COVID-19 response and the vaccination program during an event at the State Dining Room of the White House May 4, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden set a new goal to have 70% of adult Americans with at least one shot and at least 160 Americans fully vaccinated by July 4th, 2021. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Biden quietly transforms Medicaid

Noam N. Levey, Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
Paper illustration of human hands and coronavirus in a lab (Getty Images)

Why labs work with deadly viruses

Jerry Malayer - The Conversation
Britney Spears (Getty Images/Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

Spears highlights the dark side of IUDs

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Anthony Fauci, director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH, testifies at a Senate Health, Education, and Labor and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill, on September 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. Dr. Fauci addressed the testing of vaccines and if they will be ready by the end of the year or early 2021. (Graeme Jennings- Pool/Getty Images)

The search for climate's Dr. Fauci

Clare Fieseler - Grist
Cars and vehicles are caught in a traffic jam on the Quai des Tuileries in central Paris. (Getty/Francois Guillot)

Why are left-hand turns so bad?

Vikash V. Gayah - The Conversation
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