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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
Communications satellite orbiting Earth (Getty Images)

Space pollution is a big problem

Timiebi Aganaba - The Conversation
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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
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)

Americans face a "grief pandemic"

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
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Anthony Fauci | COVID-19 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Doctors become unwilling celebrities

Matthew Rozsa
Shipping containers are unloaded at the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach, California on May 14, 2019. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)

Container ship accidents on the rise

Tim Lydon - The Revelator
Boxes containing the first shipments of the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are unloaded from air shipping containers at UPS Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky. Each box contains dry ice to keep the temperature at minus 70 Celsius and contains a GPS tracker. (Michael Clevenger - Pool/Getty Images)

5 COVID-19 vaccine myths, debunked

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
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Weight stigma occurs around the world

Rebecca Puhl - The Conversation
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This bison calf, standing in the doorway of a barn on the Blackfeet Reservation, is a symbol of hope for the Blackfoot people. (Louise Johns / Undark)

Bringing bison back to the Great Plains

Louise Johns - Undark
The wildfire spreads on August 19, 2020 in San Mateo, California. (Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images)

How many has climate change killed?

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
While it makes for a colorful analogy, comparing the brain to a muscle is inaccurate and misleading.

The neurological reason you say "um"

Adriel John Orena - Massive Science
Nurse giving flu vaccine to a senior patient (Getty Images)

POTS turning up in COVID long-haulers

Cindy Loose - KFF Health News
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SIDS monitors: a mixed bag of evidence

Michael Schulson - Undark
Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef outside Cairns Australia during a mass bleaching event, thought to have been caused by heat stress due to warmer water temperatures as a result of global climate change. (Getty Images/Brett Monroe Garner)

The next major extinction event is here

Matthew Rozsa
Pregnant Girl by Nicole Lynn Lewis (Photo illustration by Salon/Erika Layne/Beacon Press)

"Pregnant Girl" flips the script

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Macro image of a dead bee on a leaf (Getty Images)

A pollen-size "pill" for bees

Matthew Rozsa
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Universe, planets and lots of stars (Getty Images)

When will the first space baby be born?

Chris Impey - The Conversation
Catfishing (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How catfishers exploit basic neurology

Stacey Wood, Tessa Solomon Lane, Brian Keeley, Thomas Borowski
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One town’s struggle with health care

Jaime R. Herndon - Undark
Tardigrade, water bear visiting the Moon (Getty Images)

Water bears survive being shot from gun

Matthew Rozsa
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