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February 26, 2024, the Emirates Telecommunications Corporation, known as Etisalat, is holding a demonstration of an android at the Mobile World Congress. Alongside the android demonstration, the first flying car is being presented, and artificial intelligence applications are taking center stage. (Charlie Perez/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Are AI brains in robot bodies conscious?

Rae Hodge
Artist’s Impression of Heaviest Supermassive Binary Black Hole (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. daSilva/M. Zamani)

Heaviest black hole pair ever measured

Matthew Rozsa
Birth control packs, close-up (Getty Images/Catherine McQueen)

Over-the-counter birth control arriving

Nicole Karlis
Rainbow over French flags in central Paris. (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

France enshrines abortion rights

Rae Hodge
Workers looking over at nuclear power plant cooling towers (Getty Images/Monty Rakusen)

Can nuclear power fix climate change?

Matthew Rozsa
Signage outside the Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services Center in St. Louis, Missouri on June 24, 2022. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

After Dobbs, a vasectomy boom

Nicole Karlis
This albino sloth was named Goldie by the Sloth Conservation Foundation (Dr. Rebecca Cliffe/The Sloth Conservation Foundation)

Why Costa Rica's sloths may be mutating

Levi Stallings
US President Joe Biden boards Air Force One before departing Joint Base Charleston in South Carolina on January 8, 2024. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden: Climate deniers are Neanderthals

Matthew Rozsa
Gray Wolf on Snowy Rock (Getty Images/John Conrad)

Wolves are back — but face new peril

Matthew Rozsa
French President Emmanuel Macron at Elysee Palace on February 19, 2024 in Paris, France. (hristian Liewig - Corbis/Getty Images)

France to enshrine abortion rights

Rae Hodge
A pigeon flies over a Exxon mobil gas station (Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images)

Exxon CEO to world: "Pay the price"

Matthew Rozsa
Alzheimers and dementia research, a brain scan in multi well tray used for research experiments in laboratory (Getty Images/Andrew Brookes)

Understanding the brain's sewage system

Nicole Karlis
Planets Neptune and Uranus (Getty Images/Jason Reed)

New moons of Uranus and Neptune found

Nicole Karlis
Eastern chimpanzee female 'Nuru' aged 21 years sitting holding her infant male 'Nyota' aged 1 year (Pan troglodytes schweinfurtheii). Gombe National Park, Tanzania. (Getty Images/Anup Shah)

Great apes struggle as climate worsens

Matthew Rozsa
Brain Fog, concept (Getty Images/David Wall)

Is COVID brain fog from a "leaky" brain?

Nicole Karlis
Thwaites Glacier (NASA/JPL)

"Doomsday Glacier" began melting in '40s

Matthew Rozsa
The immunization section is seen at the Orange County Health Department on May 6, 2019 in Orlando, Florida. (Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

"Time will tell" on FL measles outbreak

Nicole Karlis
Doctor performs ultrasound examination of a woman (Getty Images/ljubaphoto)

Inside a hospital abortion committee

Kavitha Surana - ProPublica
Close-up Of Hands Holding A Vape And Cigarettes (Getty Images/AndreyPopov)

Black Americans need tobacco substitutes

Robert “Bob” Beamon
Journalist interviewing a healthcare worker working at a COVID-19 vaccination stand (Getty Images/andresr)

Black women vital to science journalism

Rae Hodge
Sand slipping through fingers (Getty Images/PeopleImages)

The conflict generated by sand

Matthew Rozsa
In a cell laboratory, an electron microscope is used to fertilize an egg cell. (Jens Kalaene/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Chaos as IVF halts in Alabama

Nicole Karlis
Woman handing sanitary pad to other woman in a restroom (Getty Images/Lucy Lambriex)

Period taboos have serious consequences

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Girl organizing recycling bins (Getty Images/Jacobs Stock Photography Ltd)

Is there any point to recycling?

Matthew Rozsa
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