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Medical examiner holding urine cup (Getty Images/Andrii Atanov)

Scientists discover why pee is yellow

Nicole Karlis
A medical student displays a pouch of Narcan, which is used to revive an overdose, at a Remote Area Medical (RAM) mobile dental and medical clinic on October 07, 2023 in Grundy, Virginia. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Harm reduction is about ending stigma

Sheila P. Vakharia
World Health Organization's technical lead on Covid-19, Maria Van Kerkhove speaks on during a press conference on the World Health Organization's 75th anniversary in Geneva, on April 6, 2023. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

WHO says COVID-19 is "still a pandemic"

Nicole Karlis
A Matabele ant tends to the wound of a fellow ant whose legs were bitten off in a fight with termites. (Erik Frank/University of Wuerzburg)

Putting the "ant" in antibiotics

Rae Hodge
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)

It matters who stockpiles abortion pills

Nicole Karlis
Young couple smiling at each other in single beds (Getty Images/Image Source)

Why you'll sleep better sleeping apart

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Nate Silver speaks at "On The Fault Lines: Decision 2018" Midterm Election Panel on October 25, 2018 in New York City. (Krista Kennell/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Nate Silver log-off and rest challenge

Rae Hodge
Samuel Altman, CEO of OpenAI, appears for testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law May 16, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The 6 worst tech fails in 2023

Rae Hodge
President Donald Trump hugs the flag of the United States of America at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center February 29, 2020 in National Harbor, Maryland. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Trump, the loneliness epidemic and you

Mattea Kramer, Sean Fogler - TomDispatch.com
Tick Reaching For Human Leg (Getty Images/kmatija)

Desperate Lyme patients lack answers

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Diver and schooling Tomtates on WWII U-352 German submarine sunk in Atlantic ocean off coast of North Carolina. (Getty Images/Karen Doody/Stocktrek Images)

Shipwrecks teem with underwater life

Avery Paxton - The Conversation
Gavin Newsom speaks at a Homekey site to announce the latest round of awards for homeless housing projects across the state on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Undocumented immigrants insured in CA

Kelly McClure
Cackling geese (Branta hutchinsii) flying (Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Millions of birds impacted by fireworks

Troy Farah
David Grusch, former National Reconnaissance Office representative on the Defense Department's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, testifies during the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs hearing titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency," in Rayburn Building on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

2023 was a historic year for UFO science

Matthew Rozsa
In this handout provided by NASA, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is launched from Launch Complex 39A, October 13, 2023 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Aubrey Gemignani/NASA via Getty Images)

Space missions slated for launch in 2024

Ali M. Bramson - The Conversation
Cup Noodles (Getty Images/Yuto photographer)

"Alarming" number of kids burned by soup

Rae Hodge
Black hole, dark matter, periodic table of elements (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

8 mind-bending science moments in 2023

Rae Hodge
Joseph John Jr. and his son Jeremiah John haul in nets while salmon fishing on July 1, 2015 in Newtok, Alaska. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Battle over Alaska Native fishing rights

Max Graham - Grist
Snowflakes (Getty Images/breckeni)

The unique mathematics of snowflakes

Matthew Rozsa
Bright orange windsock tied to a light signal post while catching a breeze (Getty Images/Sunphol Sorakul)

Weather control isn't a climate panacea

Matthew Rozsa
In this photo illustration, the American newspaper The New York Times (NYT) logo seen displayed on a smartphone with an Artificial intelligence (AI) chip and symbol in the background. (Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft

Rae Hodge
A medical staff member Gabriel Cervera Rodriguez watches a screen which shows a patient's MRI images at nursing station in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at the United Memorial Medical Center on December 10, 2020 in Houston, Texas. (Go Nakamura/Getty Images)

Testing for COVID-related brain damage

Matthew Rozsa
The new species of fanged frog, Limnonectes phyllofolia. (Sean Reilly)

"Fanged" frogs found in Indonesia

Matthew Rozsa
Man consulting his doctor about drug medicine online (Getty Images/mixetto)

The future of birth control is male

Nicole Karlis
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