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Janelle Monae, from left, Taraji P. Henson, and Octavia Spencer pose with Katherine Johnson, seated, backstage at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

7 lessons from Katherine Johnson's life

Della Dumbaugh - The Conversation
(Gary John Norman/Getty Images)

Freecycling instead of buying new

April M. Short - Independent Media Institute
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue speaks at an Ag Policy Summit during a visit Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019 to Decatur, Ill. Perdue has sought to assuage farmers' fears of financial problems after China halted purchases of U.S. farm products in an escalating trade war. (AP Photo/John O'Connor)

Trump ag sec wants carbon pricing

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
A power generating windmill towers above a nuclear power plant operated by Exelon on June 14, 2018 near Marseilles, Illinois (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Trump rails against wind turbines, again

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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Michael Bloomberg and Bernie Sanders (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Is a doctor's note enough in 2020?

Julie Appleby - KFF Health News
The Ebola Virus and the Coronavirus looked at through a microscope (Getty Images)

Inside COVID-19's bizarre genetics

Nicole Karlis
A team of nurses with Livio Health Group took the vital signs of Anthony Nichols 52, at the large homeless camp Monday September 24, 2018 in Minneapolis, MN. Nichols said that he has a heart condition and had not been taking his medicine; he was later transported to local hospital by ambulance. Nichols said that he had been staying at the camp for only two days. (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Can you afford a coronavirus test?

Nicole Karlis
Uber driver driving a logo branded car (Michal Fludra/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Uber, Lyft are not eco-friendly: study

Nicole Karlis
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Climate activists protest Chase Bank's continued funding of the fossil fuel industry by setting up a tripod-blockade in midtown Manhattan. (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Economists warn of climate crisis threat

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
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Future of humanity: smaller families

Carter Dillard - Independent Media Institute
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The future of North American winters

Olivia Box - Massive Science
(Tanya Punti, via Shutterstock)

"On a knife edge"

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
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A picture taken on July 4, 2019 shows bees collecting nectar on a sunflower in a field in Weisskirchen, Germany. (Boris Roessler/AFP/Getty Images)

How "bee-washing" misleads consumers

Lila Westreich - The Conversation
Debris lies around a damaged home in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian on September 10, 2019 in Grand Bahama, Bahamas. The official death toll has risen in the time since to 50 people, but authorities have cautioned that number is likely to rise significantly as workers make their way through the ruins. (Alejandro Granadillo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

How the next recession will start

Igor Derysh
(Chalisa Thammapatanakul/EyeEm/Getty Images)

How accurate is "edutainment"?

Dan Garisto - Undark
(Enzo Brandi/EyeEm/Getty Images)

Virtual explosions, blur of reality

Sherry Turkle - MIT Press Reader
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Aboriginal stencil art in Carnarvon Gorge National Park, Queensland, Australia. (Peter Unger/Getty Images)

The meandering path of human evolution

M.R. O'Connor - Undark
The sun sets over a fishing pier at Columbia Beach in Shady Side, Maryland, January 2, 2020. (Eva Hambach/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump declares war on the Chesapeake Bay

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
Joyce Daubert and her son Jason in front of Joyce’s home in Ramona, California. (Ariana Drehsler/Undark)

Daubert: science enters the courtroom

Peter Andrey Smith - Undark
An empty classroom (Getty/ martinedoucet)

Quarantines, face masks and fear

Anna Almendrala - KFF Health News
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Fireflies: on the road to extinction

Anthony Warmack - Massive Science
Tens of thousands of marchers participate in a Fridays for Future climate protest on February 21, 2020 in Hamburg, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

"Where are you, USA?"

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
(Getty/RuslanDashinsky)

Doula: key to curbing maternal mortality

Sofia Quaglia - Truthout
Xavier Becerra (AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez))

California bureau takes on polluters

Yvette Cabrera - Grist
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