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Amy Klobuchar (Aaron Foster/Joe Raedle/Getty Images/Salon)

Klobuchar wants to be the UFO candidate

Nicole Karlis
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Are health care claims overblown?

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
In this Nov. 12, 2011, file photo, the Unit 4 reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station is seen through a bus window in Okuma, Japan. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, Pool, File)

Fukushima reactor cleanup delayed

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
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7 tips to help your resolutions stick

Jelena Kecmanovic - The Conversation
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Is your holiday drinking a problem?

Sara Jo Nixon - The Conversation
Woman meditating (Patrik Giardino/Getty Images)

Why I made a mental health resolution

Nicole Karlis
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The biology of a hangover

Daryl Davies, Joshua Silva, Terry David Church - The Conversation
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Times Square NYE theme: climate change

Rachel Ramirez - Grist
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Words that defined our planet in 2019

Kate Yoder - Grist
A gas flare at an oil well site on July 26, 2013 in Williston, North Dakota. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Big Oil spends big money to clean up

Kate Yoder - Grist
This illustration shows NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft-lander approaching a site on Saturn’s exotic moon, Titan. Taking advantage of Titan’s dense atmosphere and low gravity, Dragonfly will explore dozens of locations across the icy world, sampling and measuring the compositions of Titan's organic surface materials to characterize the habitability of Titan’s environment and investigate the progression of prebiotic chemistry. (NASA/JHU-APL)

Humanity's space travel plans, 2020–2030

Nicole Karlis
Boxes of Crisco All-Vegetable Shortening (Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images)

How Crisco toppled lard

Helen Zoe Veit - The Conversation
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Humanity's plastic problem

Valerie Vande Panne - Independent Media Institute
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Make purposeful New Year's resolutions

Benjamin Houltberg, Arianna Uhalde - The Conversation
In this April 2016 photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a ring-tailed lemur and her baby sit on a tree branch at the Bronx Zoo in the Bronx borough of New York. (Wildlife Conservation Society/Julie Larsen Maher via AP) (AP)

Planting trees can save lemurs

Andrea L. Baden - The Conversation
Julia Aylen wades through waist deep water carrying her pet dog as she is rescued from her flooded home during Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Bahamas, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen)

Climate politics went mainstream in 2019

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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A waterfall in the Amazon rainforest. (Shutterstock)

The statistic of the decade

Liberty Vittert - The Conversation
A packet of open cigarettes (Getty Images/iStock)

FDA raises age to buy tobacco products

Shira Tarlo
This GOES-16 satellite image taken Friday, Aug. 30, 2019, at 17:20 UTC and provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows Hurricane Dorian, right, moving over open waters in the Atlantic Ocean. Forecasters are now saying Dorian could be a Category 4 with winds of nearly 140 mph (225 kph) when it is forecasted to hit Florida late Monday or early Tuesday. It’s also imperiling the Bahamas, where the storm is expected to hit by Sunday. (NOAA via AP) (AP)

Shrinking budgets, rising seas

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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Clogging the system

Diane Peters - Undark
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"Washington Crossing the Delaware," (1851) oil on canvas painted by Emanuel Leutze (1816-1868). (Bettmann Archive)

Washington’s Christmas night crossing

Richard Gunderman - The Conversation
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Should you avoid meat for good health?

Dariush Mozaffarian - The Conversation
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What do kids really think about Santa?

Jonathan Lane - The Conversation
This artist’s impression shows the supergiant star Betelgeuse as it was revealed thanks to different state-of-the-art techniques on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), which allowed two independent teams of astronomers to obtain the sharpest ever views of the supergiant star Betelgeuse. They show that the star has a vast plume of gas almost as large as our Solar System and a gigantic bubble boiling on its surface. These discoveries provide important clues to help explain how these mammoths shed material at such a tremendous rate. (ESO/L. Calçada)

Why Betelgeuse may go supernova

Shira Tarlo
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