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The Sierra Nevada Mountains as seen from the east, California. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Western US: a hotspot for snow droughts

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Medical worker Jasmine Ortiz is given the the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine twenty-one days after receiving the first shot from RN Valerie Massaro of Hartford HealthCare, at the Hartford Convention Center in Hartford, Connecticut on January 4, 2021. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

Overcoming vaccine hesitancy

Wrenetha Julion, Kenya Beard - Undark
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the national economy and the need for his administration's proposed $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief legislation in the State Dining Room at the White House on February 05, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden hosted lawmakers from both parties at the White House this week in an effort to push his pandemic relief plan forward. (Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

Biden shocked by Trump's COVID failure

Nicole Karlis
US Steel Mill, Zug Island, Rouge and Detroit River. (Getty Images/Cavan Images Rf)

How steel can kick its coal habit

Maria Gallucci - Grist
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3D model of the novel Coronavirus (Getty Images)

Mutant coronavirus strain beats vaccine

Matthew Rozsa
Life on Mars (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why life may have started on Mars

Nicole Karlis
Coronavirus vaccine vials in hospital (Getty Images)

What will get us back to normal?

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
Tony Dix receives his second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a drive-thru vaccination site operated by the Florida Department of Health at St. Patricks Catholic Church on January 26, 2021 in Mount Dora, Florida. More than one million seniors 65 and older have been vaccinated in the state. (Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images))

Our seniors face major vaccine obstacles

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Illustration of a newly discovered black hole named MAXI J1820+070. (Aurore Simonnet and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)

How to explore a black hole

Leo Rodriguez, Shanshan Rodriguez - The Conversation
The US Department of Agriculture building is seen in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2019. (ALASTAIR PIKE/AFP/Getty Images)

Failures of new food guidelines

Chaseedaw Giles - KFF Health News
An elderly man, a resident of the sprawling township of Alexandra in Johannesburg, opens his mouth to receive a testing swab for COVID-19 coronavirus at a screening and testing drive in front of the Madala Hostel, on April 27, 2020. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) (MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

Does vaccine efficacy percentage matter?

Nicole Karlis
"The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What's Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again" by Richard Horton (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Polity)

Beyond a pandemic, we face a "syndemic"

Matthew Rozsa
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An anti-mask protestor holds up a sign in front of the Ohio Statehouse during a right-wing protest "Stand For America Against Terrorists and Tyrants" at State Capitol on July 18, 2020 in Columbus, Ohio. - Protestors descended on Columbus, Ohio for a planned anti-mask rally in response to local laws requiring people to wear a mask in many Ohio cities. (JEFF DEAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Fear to promote vaccine could backfire

Amy Lauren Fairchild, Ronald Bayer - The Conversation
Vials and syringe with world map in background (Getty Images)

Which vaccine is "best?"

Matthew Rozsa
Bumble Bee, Bombus Hortorum, in flight, free flying over yellow buttercup flowers (Getty)

Biden urged to save bumblebees

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
An angry fish (Getty Images)

Fish would like you to shut up, please

Matthew Rozsa
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Nurses work in the aisle in a hospital designated for COVID-19 patients in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Friday, March 06, 2020. (Feature China/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

Mental illness and COVID-19 mortality

Matthew Rozsa
Young guy and girl sitting on a couch looking bored (Getty Images)

Quarantine is making us more awkward

Nicole Karlis
Coronavirus vaccine vials in hospital (Getty Images)

It matter when people jump the line

Elisabeth Rosenthal - KFF Health News
Pregnant woman standing by the big window with face medical mask on (Getty Images)

Pregnant women pass antibodies to fetus

Nicole Karlis
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Deep frying food in restaurant kitchen (Getty Images)

Fried food: Tasty but deadly

Matthew Rozsa
Coronavirus outbreak concept with disease cells as a 3D render (Getty Images)

Will vaccines work on mutant viruses?

Matthew Rozsa
A vaccine syringe is held over a model of a coronavirus (Peter Endig/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Can the US keep COVID variants in check?

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News
U.S. President Donald Trump walks to the Oval Office while arriving back at the White House on December 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

"Secret science" ban gets tossed

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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