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The black hole in this record-breaking quasar is growing in mass by the equivalent of one Sun per day, making it the fastest-growing black hole to date. (European Southern Observatory)

Compact galaxies are masters of disguise

Fabio Pacucci - The Conversation
A woman, who chose to remain anonymous, talks to Doctor Audrey (R) before recieving an abortion at a Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 14, 2022. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Post-Dobbs, abortions later in pregnancy

Nicole Karlis
Squeezing a red balloon. (Nugroho Ridho, Moment / Getty Images )

New diagnosis trending thanks to Reddit

Rae Ellen Bichell - KFF Health News
A woman wearing a mask and gloves reads a local newspaper amid the coronavirus pandemic on May 21, 2020 in New York City. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Are people more afraid of illness today?

Nicole Karlis
Capybaras eat grass next to a street in a gated community in Tigre, Buenos Aires province, on August 27, 2021. (MAGALI CERVANTES/AFP via Getty Images)

Capybaras: Symbol of green resistance

Nikolas Kozloff
An environmental health specialist and entomologist for the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness displays a mosquito collected earlier in the day on August 25, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Climate change is expanding reach of EEE

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
A heat wave in Thailand in April 2024. (Chuchart Duangdaw / Getty Images)

We had our hottest summer ever — again

Matthew Rozsa
STONE RIDGE, VIRGINIA - JULY 17: In an aerial view, an Amazon Web Services data center is shown situated near single-family homes on July 17, 2024 in Stone Ridge, Virginia. Northern Virginia is the largest data center market in the world, according to a report this year cited in published accounts, but is facing headwinds from availability of land and electric power. ((Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images))

Problem with Amazon going water positive

Jake Bittle - Grist
Business man tied up in bureaucracy and red tape (Getty Images/track5)

Why bureaucracy is hated — but necessary

Matthew Rozsa
An Arnold Air Force Base team member swabs the muzzle of a tricolored bat in a cave near Arnold AFB, Tennessee, Dec. 5, 2022, to contribute to a study by Virginia Tech concerning the species and white-nose syndrome. WNS is named for a fungus that often looks like white fuzz on the muzzles of infected bats. Currently, there is not a cure for the disease. ((U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett))

Bat deaths linked to infant mortality

Troy Farah
A doctor talks with her patient about her concerns. (Getty Images/ljubaphoto)

Tubal sterilization not very "permanent"

Nicole Karlis
Doctor applies bandage to preteen girl's arm following an immunization (Getty Images/Witthaya Prasongsin)

How flu shots can help against bird flu

Allen Cheng - The Conversation
Holstein dairy cows feed on haylage at a dairy feedbunk/near Escalon, San Joaquin County, California, USA. (Bill & Brigitte Clough/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Bird flu detected in California cows

Troy Farah
Rossano study Dog and Soundboard (Courtesy of Comparative Cognition Lab at UC San Diego/Photo by Patrick Wood)

Yes, dogs understand soundboard words

Nicole Karlis
Aerial view shows a house destroyed by a fire in the surroundings of the SP-330 highway in Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo state, Brazil on August 25, 2024. (CARLOS FABAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Heat waves in Brazil burning rainforest

Matthew Rozsa
Santa Cruz River in Southern Arizona (Courtesy of Michael Bogan)

How sewage helped restore a desert river

Matthew Rozsa
Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz celebrates with his daughter Hope Walz (L), son Gus Walz (2nd-L) and wife Gwen Walz (R) after accepting the Democratic vice presidential nomination on stage during the third day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 21, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Politicians destigmatizing infertility

Nicole Karlis
Water Bear, Phylum Tardigrade, showing all eight 8 legs, microscopic (Getty Images/Robert Pickett)

Secrets of tardigrade evolution revealed

Matthew Rozsa
A patient waits to recieve an abortion at a Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 14, 2022. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Economic fallout from forced childbirth

Allison Carmen
Worker Observing Processing of Waste at Recycling Facility (Getty Images/AzmanJaka)

EPA rejects plastics industry’s math

Lisa Song - ProPublica
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz introduces Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) during a campaign rally at First Avenue on January 17, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Unspoken success story: Walz's sobriety

Sean Daniels
Steve Silberman, author of Neuro Tribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity signing session during the launching of his book at the UN Headquarters in New York. (Luiz Rampelotto/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Autism ally Steve Silberman dead at 66

Matthew Rozsa
Workers unload a shipment of polio vaccines provided with support from UNICEF to the Gaza Strip through the Karm Abu Salem crossing, also known as Kerem Shalom, at a depot belonging to Gaza's health ministry on August 25, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel's war in Gaza poses polio risks

Matthew Rozsa
Two hippos with hippo calf on riverbed (Hoberman/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Namibia urges elephant and hippo hunting

Matthew Rozsa
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