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A Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) raises its large fluke as it dives in the Atlantic Ocean. (Getty Images/Velvetfish)

Whale songs are being drowned out

Matthew Rozsa
Malik Jaffer, lead nurse, prepares a syringe with a Covid-19 vaccine, at the Peoples Congregational United Church of Christ, the site of the Ward 4 DC Covid Center, in Washington, D.C. on March 31, 2023. (Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Large COVID-19 vaccine study finds risks

Nicole Karlis
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from launch pad LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center with the Intuitive Machines' Nova-C moon lander mission, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on February 15, 2024. (GREGG NEWTON/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. Moon landing is a first in 50 years

Matthew Rozsa
Monarch Butterflies (Getty Images/ HegedusPeter/500px)

Monarch butterfly populations crashing

Matthew Rozsa
Mother holding a newborn baby (Getty Images/Halfpoint Images)

Why syphilis came roaring back

Nicole Karlis
A cyclist stands on the beach near the U.S.-Mexico border barrier which extends into the Pacific Ocean on April 7, 2022 in Tijuana, Mexico. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Tijuana sewage causing health crisis

Matthew Rozsa
A resident tries to extinguish a fire in the northwestern coastal town of Tabarka amidst a blistering heatwave on July 24, 2023. (FETHI BELAID/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change damages mental health

Matthew Rozsa
Logo of NASA is displayed on mobile phone screen in front of Blue Origin icon on February 27, 2023. (Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Going to space? Fly at your own risk

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Spraying graffiti on security camera (Getty Images/Westend61)

Don't give up the fight for privacy

Rae Hodge
An artist's impression of the Voyager 1 space probe flying past Saturn in the outer solar system, circa 1980. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

Efforts to revive NASA’s Voyager 1 probe

Troy Farah
Jungkook, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How loneliness is fueling "stan culture"

Nicole Karlis
The US-Mexico border wall is pictured in Sasabe, Arizona, on December 8, 2023. (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

A lack of data on migrant deaths

Levi Stallings
Nuclear Blast Mushroom Cloud And Binary Code (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Does AI want to nuke us? We don’t know

Rae Hodge
A girl standing in the midst of the stars at night (Getty Images/sarayut Thaneerat)

Are we really made of stardust?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
The ecological restruction of Lufengpithecus (IVPP)

Ape ear bones unlock evolutionary clues

Matthew Rozsa
Doctor holding hands with her patients during a consultation (Getty Images/Anchiy)

A future of no menopause?

Nicole Karlis
A person walks near the Lincoln Memorial under a blanket of haze in Washington, DC, on June 8, 2023. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

SCOTUS' smog case threatens air quality

Sam Sankar
Sick sneezing office worker (Getty Images/Charday Penn)

Why is working while sick encouraged?

Nicole Karlis
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan speaks during a news briefing at the White House on December 04, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Fears over nuclear weapons in space

Rae Hodge
Wilted flowers and COVID virus shadows (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why COVID is still ruining sex

Nicole Karlis
NASA's Operation IceBridge has been studying how polar ice has evolved over the past nine years and is currently flying a set of nine-hour research flights over West Antarctica to monitor ice loss aboard a retrofitted 1966 Lockheed P-3 aircraft. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Antarctica's past — and future — melt

Matthew Rozsa
A steel pipeline for natural gas liquids lies in an open-cut trench October 6, 2017 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

Biden’s big gas move is a giant "maybe"

Wenonah Hauter
A northern red-backed vole is seen in this undated photo. Small mammals, especially northern red-backed voles, have been found to be infected with Alaskapox, a disease that was not identified until 2015. (Photo by Jim Dau/Provided by Alaska Department of Fish and Game)

First confirmed Alaskapox death reported

Matthew Rozsa
Business woman lying on exercise ball in office (Getty Images/Symphonie)

The fall of the workplace wellness era

Nicole Karlis
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