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Gynecologist doctor and a patient (Getty Images/stefanamer)

How to protect against emerging STIs

Matthew Rozsa
A southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) bull with its females on the beach at the largest King penguin colony in the world, which is located in St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia Island, sub-Antarctica. (Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Flu kills hundreds of elephant seals

Matthew Rozsa
Christmas Tree On Fire (Getty Images/nikkytok)

How microstressors plague the holidays

Nicole Karlis
A mechanic works on a battery module of an electric car, at the Revolte e-garage specialized in the electric car repairs, in Carquefou, western France, on November 30, 2022. (LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)

How to make EV battery repair safer

Maddie Stone - Grist
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chairman Jim Skea (L) speaks with UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell (C) prior to the opening ceremony of the UNFCCC COP28 Climate Conference at Expo City Dubai on November 30, 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

IPCC scientists want to recommend policy

Matthew Rozsa
Black hole (Getty Images/Petrovich9)

How to juice energy from a black hole

Nicole Karlis
People wear mask after New York City's health officials have issued an advisory, strongly urging New Yorkers to use masks as COVID-19, flu, and RSV cases rise, on December 12, 2022 in New York, United States. (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

CDC director recommends masking again

Nicole Karlis
Mouse on a mirror (Getty Images/Kseniia Glazkova)

Mice recognize their own reflection

Matthew Rozsa
Long Covid patient during medical training therapy at Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin (ukb). She worked as a nurse and became infected with the coronavirus in 2020 and has been suffering from the late effects ever since. (Joerg Carstensen/dpa (Photo by Jörg Carstensen/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Are psychedelics the key to long COVID?

Rich Haridy
Little girl coughing into elbow while being at medical clinic (Getty Images/Drazen Zigic)

Respiratory illnesses rising in the US

Matthew Rozsa
A Jar Of Dried Psilocybe Mushrooms (Getty Images/James MacDonald/Bloomberg)

"Magic" mushrooms vs. Canada's cops

Troy Farah
An MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) is prepared for training mission at Creech Air Force Base on November 17, 2015 in Indian Springs, Nevada. (Isaac Brekken/Getty Images)

The military’s big bet on AI

Sarah Scoles - Undark
Many waste plastics were seen on the sea in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on August 27, 2023. As the United Nations Environment Programme said, every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a global problem. (Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Plastic pollution turns off animals

Matthew Rozsa
Doctors checking patient in ward during COVID-19 outbreak (Getty Images/Morsa Images)

COVID hospitalizations continue to rise

Matthew Rozsa
Astronaut James H Newman and Carl E Waltz, mission specialists, practice space walking techniques and evaluate tools to be used on the first Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission scheduled for later in the year, 16th September 1993. (Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

On almost breaking the Hubble telescope

Mike Massimino
A CalFire (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection) firefighter seen silhouetted against the raging flames. CalFire firefighters take on the Rabbit Fire that is currently taking over Moreno Valley, California on July 14, 2023. (Jon Putman/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Wildfire smoke erasing air quality gains

Nicole Karlis
Members of the Mursi tribe, an agro-pastoralist tribe in southwestern Ethiopia are seen on October 4, 2019 in the Lower Omo Valley. (MICHAEL TEWELDE/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Indigenous forest stewards are best

Maria Parazo Rose - Grist
The president of the upcoming COP28 climate change Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber speaks during the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition at ADNEC Exhibition Center October 2, 2023. (RYAN LIM/AFP via Getty Images)

COP28 head denies climate change truths

Matthew Rozsa
Woman holding open prescription pill bottle (Getty Images/Catherine McQueen)

The rise of rogue online pharmacies

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A Chinstrap penguin keeps watch over the colony from his prominent look-out spot on an Antarctic rock. (Getty Images/Fiona McAllister Photography)

These penguins sleep for mere seconds

Matthew Rozsa
Walking through a Christmas tree farm (Getty Images/Cavan Images)

The case for real Christmas trees

Nicole Karlis
Depressed senior woman lying in bed cannot sleep from insomnia (Getty Images/Filmstax)

Here's why sleep gets worse as you age

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A man carries a mask as he walks along Roosevelt Avenue, which passes through the neighborhoods of Elmhurst, Corona and Jackson Heights, areas that witnessed some of the highest numbers of Covid-19 cases and deaths on May 11, 2023 in the Queens borough of New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

"Pirola" COVID variant is spreading fast

Nicole Karlis
An octopus tentacle (Getty Images/RickSause)

New tech lets you have an octopus arm

Matthew Rozsa
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