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In this June 15, 2014 photo, a polar bear dries off after taking a swim in the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey, Brian Battaile)

Climate change has a new symbol

Shannon Osaka - Grist
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-91282p1.html'>Pressmaster</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Struggling for medical equipment

Jocelyn Wiener - KFF Health News
(AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

What’s the value of a clean beach?

Timothy Haab - The Conversation
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-553555p1.html'>agsandrew</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

What is a hallucinogen?

Benjamin Bell
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Elizabeth Warren (AP/Elise Amendola)

Why a DNA test won't prove anything

Andrew Lawler
(Shutterstock)

Star swings around black hole

Camille M. Carlisle - Sky & Telescope
"Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart" by Mimi Swartz (Penguin Random House/Getty)

Is the heart "more than a pump"?

Nicole Karlis
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-78238p1.html'>Nejron Photo</a>, <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-463675p1.html'>Fotokostic</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

How plant pathogens are like hackers

John Herlihy - The Conversation
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Jim Carrey; Jenny McCarthy; Rob Schneider (AP/Charles Sykes/Jordan Strauss/Richard Shotwell)

The worst celebrity pseudoscience

Paul Offit
(AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

Identifying gray wolves by their howls

Angela Dassow - The Conversation
(Shutterstock)

New post-incarceration punishments

Willie Dwayne Francois - Civil Eats
(Getty/AntonioGuillem)

Science behind your kid's tech obsession

Caroline Knorr - Common Sense Media
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Worker's rights and climate change

Michael Arria - In These Times
(Shutterstock/Salon)

Brain stimulation for violent criminals?

Nicole Stock
A still from "The Bleeding Edge" (Netflix)

Salon talks to "Bleeding Edge" makers

Gary M. Kramer
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-817618p1.html'>Solovyova Lyudmyla</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Trump: Enemy of breastfeeding mothers

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute
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FL dismal swamp for cigarette makers

Noreen Marcus - FairWarning
Channel catfish (Wikimedia Commons / Ryan Somma)

Keep the catfish babies away

Brittney Borowiec
(Getty/Giuseppe Cacace)

Land claims in space

Frans von der Dunk - The Conversation
German immigrants are questioned by immigration officers aboard the liner Saturnia on arrival in New York City. They were ordered to Ellis Island for further questioning under the 1950 Security Act. (AP/John Lindsay)

The erasure of German-American culture

Erika Schelby
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Martian lakes and the chance for life

Nicole Karlis
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-304885p1.html'>Sukharevskyy Dmytro (nevodka)</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

CRISPR, 40 years later

Patricia Stapleton - The Conversation
(Getty/rajeshbac)

Liquid water on Mars! For real this time

Emily Lakdawalla - Sky & Telescope
(Getty Images)

Push to protect planet falls short

Sara Morrison - ProPublica
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