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

Why a nearby comet keeps changing colors

Nicole Karlis
(Shutterstock)

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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(AP)

EPA readies a present to coal industry

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
(Getty/agrobacter)

A secret reason Rx drugs cost so much

Faisal Chaudhry - The Conversation
House plant and musical instrument (Getty Images)

Houseplants aren't purifying your air

Luyi Cheng - Massive Science
The IceCube Laboratory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, in Antarctica, hosts the computers collecting raw data. Due to satellite bandwidth allocations, the first level of reconstruction and event filtering happens in near real time in this lab. Only events selected as interesting for physics studies are sent to UW–Madison, where they are prepared for used by any member of the IceCube Collaboration. (Felipe Pedreros/IceCube/NSF)

Weird neutrinos are baffling physicists

Nicole Karlis
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Tough Love Medicine (Salon/Ilana Lidagoster)

Tough love doesn't help addicts

Erin Khar
(Getty Images)

Are you drinking contaminated water?

Mike Ludwig - Truthout
(ZenShui/Laurence Mouton/Getty Images)

Does science support wilderness therapy?

Adiel Kaplan - Undark
"The Handmaid's Tale" (Hulu/George Kraychyk)

The Handmaid’s Tale & Descent of Man

Ian Hesketh - The Conversation
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An illustration shows a man exhaling smoke from an electronic cigarette in Washington, DC on October 2, 2018. - In just three years, the electronic cigarette manufacturer Juul has swallowed the American market with its vaporettes in the shape of a USB key. Its success represents a public health dilemma for health authorities in the United States and elsewhere. (Photo by EVA HAMBACH / AFP) (Photo credit should read EVA HAMBACH/AFP/Getty Images) (Eva Hambach/AFP/Getty Images)

The corporate art of deception

Keith A. Spencer
(Getty/Chalabala)

Using anthrax to fight cancer?

R. Claudio Aguilar - The Conversation
(Getty/RuslanDashinsky)

Preterm birth drug divides doctors

Emmarie Huetteman - KFF Health News
(Terry Vine/Getty Images)

Are your medications worth its price?

Lola Butcher - Undark
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People watch an intelligent robot painting during the opening of the 3rd World Intelligence Congress (WIC) at the Meijiang Convention & Exhibition Center on May 16, 2019 in Tianjin, China. The 3rd WIC with the theme of 'Intelligence New Era: Progress, Planning and Opportunity' is held on May 16-19 in Tianjin. (Visual China Group via Getty Images)

Machines have learned creativity

Arthur I. Miller
A one dose bottle of measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine, made by MERCK, is held up at the Salt Lake County Health Department on April 26, 2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Getty/George Frey)

Lessons we learned from measles

Will Stone - KFF Health News
A general view of the outside of Hard Rock Stadium during Super Bowl week on January 28, 2020 in Miami Gardens, FL. (Rich Graessle/PPI/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

One last Super Bowl, as a treat

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Passengers wear face masks to protect against the spread of the Coronavirus as they arrive on a flight from Asia at Los Angeles International Airport, California, on January 29, 2020. (Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images)

Face masks signal cultural disconnect

Anna Almendrala - KFF Health News
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