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Veterans, refugees: vulnerable to PTSD

Arash Javanbakht - The Conversation
A non-permeable cover tops Coal Ash Basin B along the banks of the Elizabeth River in Chesapeake, Va., Monday, June 27, 2016. A lawsuit has gone to a judge over environmentalists claim that there are leaks of arsenic and other heavy metals into a river near Dominion�s abandoned Chesapeake power plant from the coal Ash pits in violation of the Clean Water Act. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) (AP)

Plan to protect Chesapeake is failing

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Rupert Murdoch (AP/Dennis Van Tine)

Climate change: Rift in the Murdochs

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Tourists wear face masks as they prepare to board their tour bus outside the New Orient Landmark hotel in Macau on January 22, 2020, after the former Portuguese colony reported its first case of the new SARS-like virus that originated from Wuhan in China. (ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

The mystery of the Wuhan coronavirus

Nicole Karlis
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US President Donald Trump (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Is Trump's healthcare action working?

Shefali Luthra
A walking Epaulette Shark (Hemiscyllium freycineti) crawls across the seafloor in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. While this shark isn't the newly discovered species, it is one of the nine separate but closely related species of shark that can all walk. (Getty Images/Ethan Daniels/Stocktrek Images)

Sharks are learning to walk

Nicole Karlis
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Talls matter! Air travel's legroom wars

Bob Cesca
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What the 2020s have in store for boomers

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
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Is digital media becoming a problem?

Byron Reeves, Nilam Ram, Thomas N. Robinson - The Conversation
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Why teen depression rates are rising

Jean Twenge - The Conversation
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Counterfeits hit home

Nate Seltenrich - FairWarning
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Childhood lead poisoning

Claudia Lopez-Lloreda - Massive Science
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My post-stroke existentialism

Nicole Karlis
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How mathematics can save your life

Dan Falk - Undark
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Why you need more Vitamin D in winter

Margherita T. Cantorna - The Conversation
Windmills are seen in Kinderdijk, Netherlands on May 11, 2019. (Abdullah Asiran/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Why the Netherlands is sinking

Molly Quell - Undark
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Harvard students protest Exxon law firm

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
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Specialty drugs: Flaws in the system

Sharona Hoffman - The Conversation
Two white pelicans and a cormorant rest on the shores (SAKIS MITROLIDIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Ocean "blob" kills one million seabirds

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
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Medications contaminated with NDMA

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
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Planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, a Red Dwarf Star. ( Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The super-Earth next door

Nicole Karlis
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How Goop finds fuel for growth

Michael Schulson - Undark

No shield from x-rays

Mary Chris Jaklevic - KFF Health News
Male nurse doing routine checkup of senior patient in hospital room (Getty Images/Ridofranz)

Growing health gap between rich, poor

Nicole Karlis
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