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Low-angle view of logo on facade of personal genomics company 23AndMe in the Silicon Valley town of Mountain View, California, October 28, 2018. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

23andMe's "minimum wage" billionaire

Rae Hodge
Pope Francis presides over the celebration of the Second Vespers of the solemnity of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle, at the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unit, in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls. (Grzegorz Galazka/Archivio Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

Is surrogacy really unethical?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Medical MRI Scan (Getty Images/da-kuk)

Lung cancer screening hidden racial bias

Melba Newsome - Undark
Human intestines with pills (Getty Images/Iryna Zastrozhnova)

Why IBS is still so mysterious

Nicole Karlis
Sick man with covid-19 symptoms in bed (Getty Images)

"Zombie" virus fragments linger in COVID

Nicole Karlis
Clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) and Sea Anemone (Getty Images/Stephen Frink)

Clown fish can count, study finds

Matthew Rozsa
In this photo illustration, EpiPen, which dispenses epinephrine through an injection mechanism for people with severe allergies, is seen as the company that makes it Mylan Inc. has come under fire from consumers and lawmakers for the price that it is currently charging on August 16, 2016 in Hollywood, Florida. (Photo Illustration by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

FTC probe drugmakers’ patent thickets

Elisabeth Rosenthal - KFF Health News
Senior Asian woman rubbing her hands in discomfort, suffering from arthritis in her hand while sitting on sofa at home. (Getty Images/AsiaVision)

Why autoimmunity is more common in women

Nicole Karlis
Greta Thunberg leaves Westminster Magistrates' Court, London, where she appeared charged, along with four other activists, with a public order offence during a protest in central London last year. (Jordan Pettitt/PA Images via Getty Images)

Greta Thunberg on trial in London

Matthew Rozsa
Sad young adult woman patient | US Supreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Restricting abortion drug access

Nicole Karlis
10 people from the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion NYC (XRNYC) were arrested in Bushwick for blocking the construction of the North Brooklyn fracked gas transmission pipeline for over 2 hours in a non-violent civil disobedience protest of this massive fossil fuel project. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Steep charges for climate change protest

Matthew Rozsa
This illustration shows a concept for one of two NASA helicopters that would provide a secondary capability to pick up additional samples stashed on the surface on Mars by the Perseverance rover. (NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech)

NASA's next generation space helicopters

Rae Hodge
Jenny Shields poses for a photo with her CPAP machine, which was recalled for safety reasons, at her home in Wilmington, Delaware on June 3, 2022. (Rachel Wisniewski/For the Washington Post)

Philips to stop selling apnea machines

Debbie Cenziper, Michael D. Sallah - ProPublica
Pinyon Plain uranium mine, which is located near the Grand Canyon. (Photo courtesy of Taylor McKinnon/Center for Biological Diversity)

Advocates demand halt to uranium mine

Matthew Rozsa
Newborn great white shark. (Carlos Gauna/The Malibu Artist)

Newborn shark pup filmed for first time

Rae Hodge
Rescuers work to extinguis a forest fire near the "Doña Juana" dump on January 24, 2024 in Bogota, Colombia. (Diego Cuevas/Getty Images)

Colombia plagued by wildfires

Rae Hodge
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)

Can abortion travel bans be enforced?

Nicole Karlis
Multiverse, bubbles, concept (Getty Images/VICTOR DE SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Can we escape this dismal reality?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Bad psychedelic trip, concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The dangers of psychedelic trip killers

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Woman sitting back in a chair with a tourniquet and IV in as she donates blood. (Getty Images/FatCamera)

Removing "forever chemicals" from blood

Matthew Rozsa
Bottom trawler, fishing boat sailing along the North Sea coast silhouetted against orange sunset in front of Nieuwpoort, Flanders, Belgium. (Arterra/Philippe Clément/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Trawling the sea worsens climate change

Matthew Rozsa
North side of Washington White House (Getty Images/Marc Dufresne)

Inside the White House pill mill party

Rae Hodge
Elder man looking at an younger self in the mirror (Getty Images/tommasolizzul)

Who needs a test to tell your true age?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Galapagos penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) atop rock beside sea (Getty Images/David Madison)

Microplastics reach Galápagos penguins

Matthew Rozsa
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