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A dose of measles vaccine is seen at the Miami Children's Hospital in Miami, Florida. (Photo illustration by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The massive burden of a measles outbreak

Nicole Karlis
Chevron CEO Mike Wirth (R) speaks with S&P Global Vice Chairman Daniel Yergin during CERAWeek by S&P Global in Houston, Texas on March 6, 2023. (MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate activists confront Chevron CEO

Matthew Rozsa
Shadow of a bedbug looming over a bed (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Bed bugs are on the rise thanks to us

Matthew Rozsa
Paxlovid | Patients in a hospital waiting room (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

COVID patients can't get Paxlovid

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
Man stressed, depressed in the corner of a room (Getty Images/urbazon)

Why we get paralyzed by stress

Nicole Karlis
Human brain scan in neurology clinic (Getty Images/Westend61)

COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain

Ziyad Al-Aly - The Conversation
The anxious, sad, young female patient wears her gown as she waits in the hospital room (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

Idaho is becoming an OBGYN desert

Nicole Karlis
Signage can be seen at Hyde Park on June 09, 2019 in Sydney, Australia. The march was organised by a Sydney high school student in response to Alabama's new abortion laws in the US. (Don Arnold/Getty Images)

Abortion bans limit patient autonomy

Nicole Karlis
A view of the partially melting glaciers as a polar bears, one of the species most affected by climate change, walk in Svalbard and Jan Mayen, on July 15, 2023. (Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Earth's ice caps are in serious trouble

Matthew Rozsa
Oppenheimer | A wildfire burning through the night in the Western Cape, South Africa. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Universal Pictures)

A Bechdel test for climate change?

Matthew Rozsa
A doctor picks medicines for a patient at a temporary clinic in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on Jan. 8, 2024. (Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Antibiotic resistance is rising in Gaza

Carlyn Zwarenstein
President Joe Biden arrives to deliver his State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, March 7, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Don't ignore Biden's abortion inaction

Rae Hodge
The Iowa State Capitol building is seen on October 09, 2019 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

IVF could be at risk in Iowa, too

Nicole Karlis
Aerial shot of a massive complex of oil refineries at the Port of Los Angeles. (Getty Images/halbergman)

SEC approves first climate disclosure

Sehoon Kim - The Conversation
Psychedelic Elon Musk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Can psychedelics treat narcissism?

Rich Haridy
A thermometer reads 43C (110?F) in front of the townhall of Toulouse, France on August 22th 2023. (Alain Pitton/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Are we using the wrong climate metrics?

Matthew Rozsa
Female health care professionals interacting in a clinic (Getty Images/Michele Pevide)

California expanding abortion care

Laurie Udesky - KFF Health News
Woman holding birth control pills (Getty Images/Isabel Pavia)

How accessible will Opill really be?

Nicole Karlis
Jupiter's moon Europa in front of the planet Jupiter (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Odds for alien life on Europa drop

Matthew Rozsa
Mother and baby (Getty Images/Stanislaw Pytel)

U.S. must stop syphilis killing babies

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - ProPublica
Mars Dust Storm (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The secret history of water on Mars

Rae Hodge
A passenger wears a mask while riding a train passing through the Metro Center station on Thursday January 04, 2024 in Washington, DC. There is currently an increase of Covid-19 cases in the United States. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

CDC's new COVID policy is risky: experts

Nicole Karlis
An empty procedure room of West Coast Fertility Centers, photographed February 29, 2024. (Jay L. Clendenin/for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Bills to protect IVF in AL aren't enough

Nicole Karlis
A worker picks coffee berries from a Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora) shrub in an estate on January 29, 2024 in Hanbal village, Hassan district, in the southern state of Karnataka, India. (Abhishek Chinnappa/Getty Images)

Climate change could wipe out coffee

Matthew Rozsa
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