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Doctor in hospital at IV drip (Getty Images)

Liver disease patients flood hospitals

Eli Cahan - KFF Health News
Townsend Warbler (Getty images)

Decolonizing species names

John R. Platt - The Revelator
Coronavirus and blood cells (Getty Images)

Does the coronavirus fear blood type O?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Group of People with differing brain patterns (Getty Images)

Stop telling autists to be "normal"

Matthew Rozsa
Sad woman in hospital waiting room (Getty Images)

Selling their eggs to pay off debt

Diane Tober
Air vent, close-up (Getty Images)

Nate Seltenrich
A large aphrodisiac food selection (Getty Images)

Is there science behind aphrodisiacs?

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/BeyondImages)

COVID has wilted the flower industry

Paul D. Larson - The Conversation
The boreal forest in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska, is dominated by white spruce mixed with black spruce and birch. (K. Miller / National Park Service)

The mystery of Critchfield's spruce

Zach St. George - Undark
Laughing Couple Lying On Bed With Dog At Home (Getty images)

The pandemic's un-baby boom

Nicole Karlis
Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A new Deal program makes a comeback

Kate Yoder - Grist
Ghosting/Unsubscribing, concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How to end a friendship

Lydia Denworth
Cows grazing (Getty Images)

Mixed messages in Beef impact on climate

Jenny Splitter - Undark
Anti-vaccine activists hold signs and chant 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)

What COVID and aliens have in common

Avi Loeb
During a protest organized by Make the Road Pennsylvania outside the Berks County Services Building in Reading, PA Tuesday afternoon September 1, 2020 to call for Gov. Wolf and the State Legislature to extend the eviction moratorium in Pennsylvania indefinitely. The group is concerned about the risk of eviction to people affected by the economic downturn resulting from the ongoing COVID-19 / Coronavirus pandemic. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

COVID response needs more female voices

Disha Shetty - Undark
Tables and chairs in an empty restaurant (Getty Images)

Why you shouldn’t eat out for V-Day

Ryan Malosh - The Conversation
Pig | Video Games (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Pigs are gamers now

Matthew Rozsa
Child with face mask back at school after covid-19 quarantine and lockdown (Getty Images)

Schools stuck between safety and reality

Laura Ungar, Samantha Young - KFF Health News
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)

Fauci: Vaccines for all by April

Nicole Karlis
Illustration of alien plants on a hospitable foreign planet (Getty Images)

Is this one of the nearest exoplanets?

Matthew Rozsa
Kids on smartphones (Getty Images)

The first social media generation

Nicole Karlis
Doctor blowing his nose (Getty Images)

Scientists allergic to their research

Hannah Thomasy - Undark
Logging in North Bend, Oregon USA (Braunger/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

GOP wants to plant trees for logging

Cameron Oglesby - Grist
A patient surved a code blue and then was rushed to ICU to be intubated and be placed on a ventalator inside Providence Saint John's Health Center on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 in Santa Monica, CA. They have expanded their ICU capacity. They are not currently over capacity at the moment. They have had 19 covid positive cases and they have 23 beds at this moment. The numbers are constantly is shiflting. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

ICU Doc: US healthcare is failing

Adam Gaffney
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