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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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