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Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Getty Images)

The Amazon is now a net carbon emitter

Matthew Rozsa
Doctor giving first aid bandage after vaccination to senior woman (Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images)

COVID vaccine not linked to shingles

Julia Appleby - KFF Health News
A man holds a glass under a running tap. (Marius Becker/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Senate passes $35B clean water bill

Alexandria Herr - Grist
Coronavirus and the Brain (Getty Images/Amornrat Phuchom)

How coronavirus can attack the brain

Matthew Rozsa
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Dementia bran scan research (Getty Images)

This is your brain on a UTI

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Herd Immunity (Getty Images)

Why the US may not reach herd immunity

Matthew Rozsa
(Shutterstock)

CVS, Walgreens are wasting vaccines

Joshua Eaton, Rachana Pradhan - KFF Health News
Looking at Pompeii from above (Getty Images)

The rise and fall of ancient cities

Susan Cosier - Undark
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Senior couple on beach (Roger Wright/Getty Images)

Is there a limit to the human lifespan?

Nicole Karlis
Anosmia or smell blindness, loss of the ability to smell, one of the possible symptoms of COVID-19 (Getty Images)

Post-COVID smell therapy: weak evidence

Maeve Gamble - Undark
Reconstruction of Yamatosaurus with Kamuysaurus in the background (Masato Hattori)

When "Cretaceous cows" took over Earth

Matthew Rozsa
Kids playing at the park, wearing medical face masks (Getty Images)

The COVID-19 management phase is here

Matthew Rozsa
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Anti-vaccine activists protest and hold signs in front of the Massachusetts State House against Governor Charlie Baker's mandate that all Massachusetts school students enrolled in child care, pre-school, K-12, and post-secondary institutions must receive the flu vaccine this year on August 30, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

Misinformation vs. disinformation

Michael J. O'Brien, Izzat Alsmadi - The Conversation
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)

The US is hoarding its vaccine supply

Carrie Teicher
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and the SpaceX launch (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Musk’s and Bezos’s great escape

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
Doctor giving first aid bandage after vaccination to senior woman (Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images)

How innumeracy threatens public health

David Robert Grimes
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Family of T-rex (Getty Images)

Tyrannosaurs hunted in packs: study

Matthew Rozsa
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Washington state passes carbon cap

Kate Yoder - Grist
Artificial Intelligence robot face is divided in two parts, completion and networking on circuit background (Getty Images)

A.I. research hits a dead end

Thomas Nail
Scared man sitting with his eyes closed during coronavirus vaccination in a hospital (Getty Images)

Some vaccine reactions caused by anxiety

Nicole Karlis
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Preparing pencils (Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)

What women know about perfectionism

Gail Cornwall
(Monica Almeida / Undark)

Allergy clinic aims to disrupt medicine

Esther Landhuis - Undark
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)

The U.S. has an "excess death" problem

Bob Hennelly
Highly magnetized rotating neutron star (Getty Images/Pitris)

We know more about neutron stars now

Matthew Rozsa
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