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A wild jaguar (Getty Images)

New doc stares down jaguar poachers

Matthew Rozsa
Tick on a leaf (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Why ticks are out of control this year

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Typing code on a laptop computer (Getty Images)

The perils of proprietary health care AI

Vishal Khetpal, Nishant R. Shah - Undark
Nurse Practitioner Terri Welch administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to a patient at the Haxby and Wigginton Group Medical Practice in Haxby, northern England on December 22, 2020. (LINDSEY PARNABY/AFP via Getty Images)

Now we wait for boosters

Nicole Karlis
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Faucet with Water Drip (Getty Images)

The long shadow of lead contamination

Jenny Bower - Undark
Small children with face mask back to school (Getty Images)

My COVID-19 teaching year

Belle Chesler - TomDispatch.com
Unwell Woman by Elinor Cleghorn (Photo illustration by Salon/Lara Downie/Dutton)

Women's pain "isn't taken seriously"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Planet Venus (Albert Klein/Getty Images)

Why NASA just greenlit two Venus probes

Nicole Karlis
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Anti-Vaccine and Anti-Lockdown protesters (David Cliff/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Anti-vaxxer and proud of it: poll

Matthew Rozsa
A burned residence smolders during the Bear fire, part of the North Lightning Complex fires, in unincorporated Butte County, California on September 09, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Western fires are burning higher

Mojtaba Sadegh, John Abatzoglou, Mohammad Reza Alizadeh - The Conversation
US President Joe Biden tours the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 19, 2021. (ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images)

Critics call out Biden's vaccine plan

Kenny Stancil - Common Dreams
Pensive woman in bed (Getty/A75)

Post-COVID, introverts resolve to change

Nicole Karlis
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This photo taken on March 5, 2020 shows nurses preparing to deliver yoghurt to patients at a temporary hospital set up for COVID-19 coronavirus patients in a sports stadium in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province. - China reported 30 more deaths from the new coronavirus outbreak on March 6, with fresh infections rising for a second straight day and 16 new cases imported from overseas. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Pressure mounts on China for "lab leak"

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
Scientist pipetting a virus onto a petri dish (Getty Images)

Lab leak theory "can't be ruled out"

Matthew Rozsa
Mother breastfeeding baby in living room (Getty Images)

Big Tech is coming for your breast milk

Julia Pelly
(Getty Images)

Oil companies all-in on petrochemicals

Constance B. Bailey - The Conversation
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Different ways of thinking processing (Getty Images)

Is autism just a "language" difference?

Matthew Rozsa
Police Vehicles (Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

New response strategies for crisis calls

Larry Buhl - Capital & Main
Ocean Current (Getty Images)

The current that makes Earth habitable

Matthew Rozsa
Prescription medication is strewn about, with pill bottles in the deep background. (Getty Images)

I fled my anxiety through Xanax

Matthew Rozsa
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Communications satellite orbiting Earth (Getty Images)

Space pollution is a big problem

Timiebi Aganaba - The Conversation
A senior patient using a mask looking through the window at the hospital (Getty Images)

How COVID impacted Alzheimer’s patients

Burcin Ikiz - Massive Science
British-Dutch oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell PLC sign , commonly known as Shell (Aleksander Kalka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Big Oil is awash in rainbows for Pride

Kate Yoder - Grist
Black Hole (Getty Images)

Is this what dark matter is?

Nicole Karlis
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