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Women receiving surprise bills for IUD

Shefali Luthra - KFF Health News
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Bats can carry viruses without symptoms

Marnie Willman - Massive Science
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Good for business, bad for patients

Melissa Bailey - KFF Health News
Charcoal Toothpaste (Getty Images)

The charcoal "health" trend needs to die

Nicole Karlis
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In this July 8, 2015 file photo a bumblebee gathers nectar on a wildflower in Appleton, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Climate chaos driving bumblebee decline

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
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How a plant-rich diet can reduce stress

Kathleen Kevany - The Conversation
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Exploring the biology of friendship

Elizabeth Svoboda - Undark
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Nanopackaging the answer to food waste?

Emerson Grey - Massive Science
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Exhaust billows from Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex in Philadelphia, Thursday, June 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Refineries spew cancer-causing benzene

Mike Ludwig - Truthout
A multi-ethnic group of adults are taking a yoga class together at the gym. They are sitting on their exercise mats and are meditating with their eyes closed and their hands together at heart center. (Getty Images)

Can yoga help you change the world?

Lauren Schiller
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Food safety regs: a paucity of research

Teresa Carr - Undark
View of the gas tanks for the liquid natural gas (LNG) drive of the cruise ships of the Carnival Cruise Line at the Neptun dockyard in Rostock, Germany, 1 December 2017. (Bernd Wüstneck/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Does Carnival's green claims hold water?

Maria Gallucci - Grist
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People wearing facemasks to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in the city, wait at Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan on January 24, 2020. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty)

Can China prevent its next epidemic?

Apoorva Mandavilli - Undark
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Sense of smell without olfactory bulbs?

Thiago Arzua - Massive Science
Kim McIntyre, from LaJolla, Calif., along with her dog Benji rest on the beach in Encinitas, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. California is having another day of unseasonable warmth before a low-pressure system brings rain and snow. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi) (AP)

Say goodbye to another heat record

Shannon Osaka - Grist
Concept: The New York Times' take on Coronavirus, featuring a 1882 illustrated depiction of diseases emanating from Chinatown. (Getty Images/WikiCommons/Salon)

The racist art of naming a virus

Marie Myung-Ok Lee
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Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko (ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team/Salon)

Why a nearby comet keeps changing colors

Nicole Karlis
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Trump's SOTU: more oil, more trees

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
A large fracking operation becomes a new part of the horizon with Mount Meeker and Longs Peak looming in the background. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Even Pennsylvania doesn't love fracking

Nicole Karlis
A quarantine warning is displayed outside the horse racing track at Turf Paradise, Friday, Jan. 29, 2016, in Phoenix. Turf Paradise has euthanized one horse and is quarantining two others in the wake of a herpes outbreak that surfaced in New Mexico.(AP Photo/Matt York) (AP)

A brief history of quarantines

Leslie S. Leighton - The Conversation
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A view of the Los Angeles city skyline as heavy smog shrouds the city in California on May 31, 2015 (Getty/Mark Ralston)

Our cars are spewing black carbon

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Gray seal (Halichoerus grypus) (Horst Jegen/McPhoto/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Gray seals clap back (and forth)

Nicole Karlis
Man shutting off alarm clocks (Getty Images)

Why harsh alarms sounds make you cranky

Nicole Karlis
Frances Arnold. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Frances Arnold retracts her paper

Mary Widdicks - Undark
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