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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)

Bees: Bugs you can't live without

Milicent Cranor - WhoWhatWhy
Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden (Getty/Scott Olson)

Biden ACA comment highlighted gaps

Shefali Luthra - KFF Health News
Skyline of Montreal, Canada, as seen from the Grande Roue De Montreal ferris wheel in the Old Port on July 2, 2018. (Photo by EVA HAMBACH / AFP)        (Photo credit should read EVA HAMBACH/AFP/Getty Images) (Eva Hambach/Getty Images)

Your city may feel different in 30 years

Justine Calma - Grist
"Flint Fights Back: Environmental Justice and Democracy in the Flint Water Crisis" by Benjamin J. Pauli (MIT Press/Getty/ognianm)

Flint water crisis radicalized locals

Benjamin J. Pauli
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Does "natural deodorant" actually work?

Nicole Karlis
A volunteer hands out a poster as Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders was set to address a “Medicare for All” rally in downtown Columbia, S.C. on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018 (AP/Meg Kinnard)

What Medicare for All would look like

Shira Tarlo
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Why corporations can legally poison us

Matthew Rozsa
FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016 file photo, a marijuana plant awaits judging in the Oregon Cannabis Growers' Fair marijuana plant competition in Salem, Ore. (AP)

Misinformation on CBD: Life-threatening

Jonathan N. Stea, Tyler Marshall - The Conversation
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A picture taken at the French National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) in Maison-Alfort, on July 20, 2016 shows a tick, whose bite can transmit the Lyme disease.  / AFP / BERTRAND GUAY/Getty Images) (Bertrand Guay/Getty Images)

Ticks spread more than Lyme disease

Jerome Goddard - The Conversation
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Counterfeit alcohol is a growing concern

Monica H. Swahn - The Conversation
Recovering potatoes for Food Forward. (Photo © Eron Rauch)

How LA's Food Forward combats food waste

Nadra Nittle - Civil Eats
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California overdue for major earthquake?

Richard Aster - The Conversation
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Auto traffic flows in and out of Los Angeles, California, one of the worst traffic-congested cities in the country, on August 28, 2018. - Shares of big US automakers rose on news the US and Mexico reached a deal to update the 25-year North American Free Trade Agreement, pending Congressional approval. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)        (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images) (Frederic J. Brown/Getty)

The market, and California, say no

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport
The ET highway was established by the Nevada Legislature in 1996 and runs along the eastern border of Area 51. (AP/Laura Rauch)

Half a million plan to storm Area 51

Nicole Karlis
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Thousands of fish dead after Beam fire

Ashlie D. Stevens
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Parrots teach themselves to dance: study

Nicole Karlis
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FILE - This Feb. 5, 2016, file photo, shows the Flint River in Flint, Mich. Michigan environmental officials announced Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, that Flint's water system no longer has levels of lead exceeding the federal limit. The finding by the Department of Environmental Quality is good news for a city whose 100,000 residents have grappled with the man-made water crisis since 2014. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File) (AP)

2% of US water systems are like Flint's

Laura Pangallozzi - The Conversation
Braden Scott uses a device to support his left arm as he practices on the piano in Tomball, Texas on Friday, March 29, 2019. Braden was diagnosed with the syndrome called acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, in 2016 and was paralyzed almost completely. (AP/David J. Phillip)

Mysterious polio-like virus alarming CDC

Nicole Karlis
FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2011 file photo, signs are displayed at the Cargill plant in Springdale, Ark. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File) (AP)

Is Cargill really ending deforestation?

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
This illustration made available by NASA shows the Kepler Space Telescope. (NASA via AP)

The most bizarre star in the galaxy

Nicole Karlis
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Can we fix loneliness with technology?

Sophie Okolo - Massive Science
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Med students decline primary care jobs

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
OR-11, a male pup (born spring 2011) from the Walla Walla pack, waking up from anesthesia after being radio-collared on Oct. 25, 2011. It was the second wolf in the pack to be collared. (Photo courtesy of ODFW.)

Why wolves need protection (from Trump)

Suzanne Stone - Independent Media Institute
In this July 8, 2015 file photo a bumblebee gathers nectar on a wildflower in Appleton, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Plight of the bumblebee

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
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