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Supporters of Ohio Issue 1 cheer at a watch party hosted by Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights on November 7, 2023 in Columbus, Ohio. 2023 Ohio Issue 1, officially titled "The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety," would codify reproductive rights in the Ohio Constitution, including contraception, fertility treatment and the right to abortion up to the point of fetal viability while permitting restrictions after. (Andrew Spear/Getty Images)

5 reproductive wins in 2023

A person holds the drug Paxlovid from the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer against Covid-19 (Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Is there enough evidence for Paxlovid?

Lynora Saxinger - Undark

Babylonian tablet dating to the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II | Earth's Magnetic Field (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Slemani Museum)

Space mystery solved by Babylonian relic

Reindeer in Svalbard Norway (Photo by Espen Bergersen)

What makes reindeer biology so unique

Depressed woman sitting near the window (Getty Images/Martin Dimitrov)

Is seasonal depression real?

Mary Elizabeth Williams

A group of people wear face masks as they walk past the U.S. Supreme Court Building on June 29, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

New COVID variant dominant in U.S.

Yuichi Tsuda, project engineer of the Hayabusa2 mission from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) points at an image showing the surface of the asteroid Ryugu before touchdown by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft during a press conference in Sagamihara on February 22, 2019. (JIJI PRESS/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images)

Asteroid sample upends theories on life

Sámi Man Pulling Reindeer on Sleigh Through Snow (Getty Images/Atlantide Phototravel)

Norway to pay Sámi reindeer herders

Elisabeth Rasmussen - Grist

This artist's concept shows what the exoplanet WASP-17 b could look like. (NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI))

Potential alien planets spotted in 2023

Great Dane puppy and mother (Getty Images/Jim Craigmyle)

This drug could extend the life of dogs

Tree planted on a pile of coins guarded by hands (Getty Images/Dumitrita Matei/500px)

Louise Fabiani - Undark

A person watches a shipping vessel from a mound of ice and snow on the shore of Lake Superior as the sun rises in Duluth, Minnesota, on April 13, 2023. (STEPHEN MATUREN/AFP via Getty Images)

60 Indigenous nations oppose pipeline

Anita Hofschneider - Grist

Underwater Polar Bear by Harbour Islands, Nunavut, Canada (Getty Images/Paul Souders)

The Endangered Species Act turns 50

Old-growth temperate rainforest; Quinault Rainforest Trail, Olympic National Forest, Washington. (Greg Vaughn /VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Forest protections don't go far enough

An oil pumpjack is seen near a field of wind turbines on October 04, 2023 in Nolan, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

US oil producers broke a major record

U. S. Senator Charles Schumer speaks while holding photo of bottle with drug Xylazine during the briefing at 875 3rd Avenue lobby in Manhattan on drug Xylazine linked to overdose deaths. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Why banning this drug could backfire

Elizabeth Hlavinka

Carbon, Earth, Planet (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Does non-carbon-based life exist?

Wild Boars (Sus scrofa) in a forest (Getty Images/Christian Steinboeck)

A new front in the war on feral hogs

Marcus Lashley - The Conversation

Visualization of a binary star experiencing mass transfer. (Institute of Science and Technology Austria/Ylva Götberg)

"Bluest of blue" stars discovered

This image of Uranus from NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope exquisitely captures Uranus’s seasonal north polar cap and dim inner and outer rings. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)

New image of Uranus from James Webb

Atom model with newspaper (Getty Images/Talaj)

Science journalism is no longer safe

Protecting and preserving the American chestnut tree (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Saving a tree — and saving ourselves

Male nurse sits in a modern hospital setting struggling with the long hours and enormous pressures. (Getty Images/Malachite Photography)

Caregivers struggle with moral distress

Paramedics taking patient on stretcher from ambulance to hospital (Getty Images/JazzIRT)

COVID and flu are straining hospitals

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