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This illustration shows a night-side view of the exoplanet WASP-76b. The ultra-hot giant exoplanet has a day side where temperatures climb above 2400 degrees Celsius, high enough to vaporise metals. Strong winds carry iron vapour to the cooler night side where it condenses into iron droplets. To the left of the image, we see the evening border of the exoplanet, where it transitions from day to night. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

The planet with iron rain

Nicole Karlis
(Erik Isakson / Getty Images)

Scanning the sky for stars, not drones

Sarah Sax - Undark
(Ezra Bailey / Getty Images)

Why having fewer OSHA inspectors matters

David Weil - The Conversation
(Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images)

"A threat to the blood supply"

JoNel Aleccia - KFF Health News
(Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)

Why football needs better helmets

Christina Marvin - Massive Science
American author of science fiction Isaac Asimov (Getty Images/Salon)

Isaac Asimov's invention of the robot

Terri Favro
Crocuses bloom in the Arnold Arboretum on March 4, 2020, as the first signs of spring bloom in Boston's Jamaica Plain. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Spring is arriving earlier across the US

Theresa Crimmins - The Conversation
Loving bride and groom looking at each other and communicating while standing on a rain and protecting themselves with an umbrella. (Getty Images)

The irony of how we use the word "irony"

Roger Kreuz
Teenage Climate Crisis activists from various climate activism groups protesting. (Ollie Millington/Getty Images)

Youth climate activist vs the apocalypse

Lauren Schiller
(Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Are you buying the wrong hand sanitizer?

Marshall Allen, Lisa Song - ProPublica
Forrest Galante films a crocodile in June 2016. (Mark Romanov & Forrest Galante / Barcroft Images / Getty Images)

Colonial science lives on

Andrew J Wight - Undark
Ambulance staff prepare to transport a patient from the Life Care Center nursing home where some patients have died from COVID-19 in Kirkland, Washington on March 5, 2020. (Jason Redmond / AFP via Getty)

First responders brace for coronavirus

Carmen Heredia Rodriguez - KFF Health News
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Pesticides killing off the Andean condor

John R. Platt - The Revelator
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Why humanity should look to its roots

April M. Short - Independent Media Institute
Humpback Whale (Getty Images/Science Photo Library)

The economic case for marine life

Rocky Kistner - Undark
Fans attend Emerald City Comic Con at Washington State Convention Center on March 1, 2018 in Seattle, Washington. (Suzi Pratt/Getty Images)

Coronavirus: Should conferences cancel?

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., addresses supporters during a town hall in San Antonio, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Poaching Warren's climate strategy?

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
People take part in a "Youth Strike 4 Climate" protest against global warming and climate change outside the Central Station on March 6, 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. (Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Europe wraps up warmest winter on record

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams

Patents slowing the COVID-19 vaccine

Dean Baker - Truthout
Bonnie Castillo, executive director of National Nurses United, speaks during a news conference at the National Nurses United offices on March 05, 2020 in Oakland, California. The National Nurses United held a news conference to express concerns that the Centers for Disease Control is not doing enough to help protect and test healthcare workers who are exposed to patients with the COVID-19 virus. (National Nurses United; Coronavirus)

"Hospitals are unprepared" for COVID-19

Nicole Karlis
Ann Druyan (Yurie Kwon/Beck Media/Getty Images)

Ann Druyan on the optimism of "Cosmos"

Nicole Karlis
Kokanee, Also Known As Sockeye, Salmon Spawning In Big Creek, Fresno, United States (Getty Images)

To save the salmon, the dams have to go

Mark Kurlansky
Male nurse doing routine checkup of senior patient in hospital room (Getty Images/Ridofranz)

Coronavirus a nursing home nightmare

JoNel Aleccia - KFF Health News
(NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images)

COVID-19 has raised fears of pandemic

Yuqi Na - The Conversation
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