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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
New eruption of the Etna volcano in Sicily. (Marco Restivo/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

Earth has a 27-million-year "pulse"

Nicole Karlis
Strawberry Moon rising (Getty Images/ Cochise Vista)

A red-tinted strawberry moon rises

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/urbazon)

On fixing the drug patent system

Gunjan Sinha - Undark
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) asks questions during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to discuss election security and the 2020 election process on December 16, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images)

Is Rand Paul sending mixed messages?

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
Anxious man scared of being judged by different people (Getty Images/SI Photography)

When social shame never ends

Matthew Rozsa
Summer meadow full of colorful flowers and butterflies flying around. (Getty Images)

How butterflies get drunk

Matthew Rozsa
Homes remain flooded as Texas moved toward recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Harvey on September 4, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

TX-sized effort to fend off rising seas

Eric Bender - Undark
Medical Billing (Getty Images)

Fred Schulte, Elizabeth Lucas
Doctor put label COVID-19 vaccine sticker on vaccination card (Getty Images)

Vax passports are created, and banned

Nicole Karlis
Two minds concept (iStock/Getty Images)

The science of changing someone's mind

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Workers in the hand sanitizer bottling process in AGE do Brasil factory on April 6, 2020, in Vinhedo, Brazil. (Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

COVID pseudoscience suffocating Brazil

Shanna Hanbury, Kiratiana Freelon - Undark
(Getty/Nils Jacobi)

Why do cats knead with their paws?

Julia Albright - The Conversation
Nurse prepares breast implant for surgery (iStock/Getty Images)

My breast implants made me ill

Pamela Appea
Mammoth Lakes is a town in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. It's known for the Mammoth Mountain and June Mountain ski areas and nearby trails.Mammoth Lakes is a town in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. It's known for the Mammoth Mountain and June Mountain ski areas and nearby trails. ( iStock / Getty Images)

Wildfire anxiety is on the rise

Astra Lincoln - Undark
Four birds sitting on a branch (iStock-Getty Images/jeffysurianto)

Scientists can read birds' minds

Matthew Rozsa
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