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Aiming the A&M 80mm refractor on the Astro-Tech Voyager mount at the Milky Way with its laser pointer finder showing the way. (Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Satellites are ruining space exploration

Samantha Lawler - The Conversation
Child with trophy (Getty Images/Pofuduk Images)

Don't treat your children "special"

Mary Ann Little
Nurse standing by elderly woman sitting on wheelchair (Getty Images/Morsa Images)

Do we simply not care about old people?

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
A woman holds a pregnancy test. (Longhua Liao)

Teen pregnancies rise in Texas

Nicole Karlis
Human brain connected with USB wire cord (SerrNovik (Getty Images))

NFL brain trauma vs. Elon's Neuralink

Rae Hodge
A closeup of a woman walking in a foggy field (Wirestock / Getty Images)

Native Americans fighting suicide

Cheryl Platzman Weinstock - KFF Health News
AI speaks letters (Ole_CNX / Getty Images)

Is tech leaving us lost in translation?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Reconstructed Early Cretaceous living environment of the Gansubatrachus qilianensis. (Baoxia Du et al., Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2024 )

Ancient frog has eggs in its belly

Matthew Rozsa
Plastic waste (Getty Images/Anna Efetova)

Plastic chemicals and preterm births

Joseph Winters - Grist
Artificial Intelligence Chatbot, concept (Getty Images/Carol Yepes)

FCC bans robocalls using deepfake clones

Joan Donovan - The Conversation
Senior man playing with puzzle (Getty Images/LightFieldStudios)

Is your memory loss normal or a warning?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A sign welcoming patients from East Texas is displayed in the waiting area of the Women's Reproductive Clinic, which provides legal medication abortion services, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 15, 2022. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Helping women travel to have abortions

Lillian Mongeau Hughes - KFF Health News
Moon (Getty Images/MASTER)

New Moon research illuminates its past

Matthew Rozsa
In this photo illustration, packages of Mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Maryland. (Photo illustration by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

"Junk" abortion pill studies retracted

Nicole Karlis
A worker wears a clean room suit as they walk past a propulsion component of the Europa Clipper spacecraft while it is prepared for a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa inside a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California on April 11, 2023. - In October 2024, NASA will launch the Europa Clipper spacecraft that will study Jupiter's moon and its underground oceans. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) (PATRICK T. FALLON / Contributor (Getty Images))

NASA lays off 530 workers at JPL

Rae Hodge
Blood samples and test results in a clinical medical laboratory (Getty Images/solarseven)

How to interpret a blood test

Brad Reisfeld - The Conversation
Scientist viewing an electron micrograph of virus particles on a screen (TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Getty Images)

Are we prepared for "Disease X?"

Nicole Karlis
Satellite image of Hurricane Katia (left) making landfall over the Mexican state of Veracruz, Hurricane Irma (center) approaching Cuba, and Hurricane Jose reaching peak intensity on September 8, 2017. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

"Category 6" proposed for big hurricanes

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

Planets' striking gravitational dance

Chris Impey - The Conversation
Elephants migrate across great distances in search of suitable seasonal conditions. (Clinton Mwebaze/WCS)

Climate change cooking African elephants

Matthew Rozsa
Wind turbines at sunset in Oklahoma. (Ryan McGinnis / Getty Images)

Indigenous rights and energy transitions

Anita Hofschneider - Grist
A rear view of a woman sitting alone on a bed in room and looking through the window at night. (Getty Images/recep-bg)

Is there an upside to insomnia?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
View of destroyed houses at Villa El Olivar after the forest fires on February 4, 2024 in Vina del Mar, Chile. (Claudio Santana/Getty Images)

Chilean wildfires kill at least 122

Matthew Rozsa
Artist's impression of a cloud of smoke and dust being thrown out by a red giant star. Seen from the left the star remains bright but if viewed from the right it fades to invisibility. (Philip Lucas/University of Hertfordshire)

Strange new star discovered in Milky Way

Rae Hodge
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