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Close-Up Of Cicada On A Tree (Getty Images)

When cicadas become real-life zombies

Matthew Rozsa
The Austrian-born Bernard Hollander favored a quantitative approach to phrenological diagnosis, and is shown here methodically measuring his own skull. His meticulous view of the critical role of cranial measurement mirrored Galton’s in its obsessive assessment of statistical averages. Image: Wellcome Collection. Bernard Hollander: Cranial Measurement (1902) (<a href="https://wellcomecollection.org/works/sqjvypsb">Wellcome Collection</a>. Bernard Hollander: Cranial Measurement (1902))

On the lasting legacy of eugenics

Jessica Helfand - MIT Press Reader
A 99-million-year old fossil of a hell ant, preserved in amber, attacking an ancient insect with its mandibles. (NJIT/Chinese Academy of Sciences/University of Rennes, France)

The hell ant trapped in amber

Matthew Rozsa
Close up of young woman getting online medical help and advice during videocall with doctor (Getty Images)

Telemedicine's glaring care inequality

Julie Burkhart
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Members of the National Guard talk to out of state drivers at a checkpoint set up to hand out information to those coming in from out of state about self-quarantining for 14 days to try to reduce the spread of coronavirus on March 30, 2020 in Hope Valley, RI. Out of state drivers were directed to pull over on I-95 into a rest area between Exits 2 and 3 to speak to the National Guard. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Are travel quarantines being enforced?

Nicole Karlis
The "Women of Abstract Expressionism" Exhibit at the Denver Art Museum (Denver Art Museum)

Art museums will never be the same

David Joselit - MIT Press Reader
Doctor and patient on medical consultation (Getty Images)

Outbreaks have vast impact on women

Gayathri Vaidyanathan - Undark
Young adult man wearing a pollution mask to protect himself from viruses. His friends are in the background. They all are wearing masks. (Getty Images)

Should we turn face masks into fuel?

Joseph Winters - Grist
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A man wearing a medical face mask | Coronavirus spores (Getty Images/Salon)

Why COVID-19 hurts your ability to smell

Matthew Rozsa
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New study links pot to heart disease

Matthew Rozsa
Artist’s interpretation of the calcium-rich supernova 2019ehk. Shown in orange is the calcium-rich material created in the explosion. Purple coloring represents gas shedded by the star right before the explosion, which then produced bright X-ray emission when the material collided with the supernova shockwave. (Aaron M. Geller, Northwestern University)

What a rare new supernova has revealed

Nicole Karlis
Coronavirus | Kids at camp on a sports team (Getty Images/Salon)

Kids may play a key role in transmission

Matthew Rozsa
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Communications satellite orbiting Earth (Getty Images)

Amazon is sending satellites into space

Nicole Karlis
Participants hold signs during the Senate Democrats' rally against Medicaid cuts in front of the U.S. Capitol (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

COVID triggered Medicaid enrollment

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
Young woman feeling bored while staying home for safety during a global pandemic (Getty Images)

Boredom is driving COVID-19 outbreaks

Luke Fernandez, Susan J. Matt
Factory chimneys spewing smoke and pollution into the atmosphere on the outskirts of Ulan Bator (Peter Charlesworth/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The second pandemic: Pollution

François Jarrige, Thomas Le Roux
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Medicine bottle with syringe and needle for immunization (Getty Images)

Experts fear too-quick Covid-19 vaccine

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
Close up of young woman getting online medical help and advice during videocall with doctor (Getty Images)

How to find a pandemic therapist

Halley Farwood
New York Police Department tactical police officers (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Pollution & police violence are linked

Alexandria Herr - Grist
(Getty Images)

Colorado churches grapple with reopening

Jakob Rodgers - KFF Health News
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Riot Police | Medicine Vial (Getty Images/Salon)

Psychedelic drugs and state violence

Jonathan Dickinson, Dimitri Mugianis
White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, left, and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci, both wearing face masks listen as President Donald J. Trump participates in a vaccine development event in the Rose Garden at the White House ( Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images))

Vaccine czar has conflict of interest

Eoin Higgins - Common Dreams
Farmers being tested for COVID-19 (Coalition of Immokalee Workers)

When is a COVID test not a COVID test?

Elisabeth Rosenthal - KFF Health News
(Getty Images)

First gene knockout in a cephalopod

Matthew Rozsa
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