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Luddite Frame-breaker wielding a hammer | Automated car building factory robots (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Wiki Commons)

Rage against machine learning

Matthew Rozsa
The Washington Works DuPont plant in Parkersburg, WV on October 28, 2015. (Maddie McGarvey/ For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Industry knew about the perils of PFAS

Tracey J. Woodruff, Nadia Gaber - Undark
Paramedics taking patient on stretcher from ambulance to hospital (Getty Images/JazzIRT)

Climate fueling booze hospitalizations

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Agents simulate a raid in their Tactical Training Facility, part of the new National Clandestine Laboratory Training and Research Facility December 5, 2008 at the DEA Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia. (TIM SLOAN/AFP via Getty Images)

It’s time to admit the drug war is over

Troy Farah
A young woman holding a pregnancy test (Getty Images/Ekaterina Goncharova)

Drop in teen births is slowing

Catherine Sweeney - KFF Health News
Embroidery skull and roses, grapes, humming bird and flower (Getty Images/Matriyoshka)

Your microbes live on after you die

Jennifer DeBruyn - The Conversation
Toilet and toilet paper holder in field of dandelions (Getty Images/Hiroshi Higuchi)

What we can learn from the "poop shelf"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Senior Japanese man on tropical beach, Ikema Island of Miyako Islands, Okinawa, Japan (Getty Images/Ippei Naoi)

Are blue zones real or a health grift?

Philip Finkelstein
This mosaic of Bennu was created using observations made by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that was in close proximity to the asteroid for over two years. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona)

NASA finds a surprise on an asteroid

Matthew Rozsa
5 years-old Eastern Screech Owl (Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Lessons from rescuing a baby owl

Matthew Rozsa
Holding a large mushroom (Photo courtesy of MycoMeditations)

How psychedelic retreats can help heal

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Senior man doing a jigsaw puzzle (Getty Images/LightFieldStudios)

What biomarkers say about Alzheimer's

Carlyn Zwarenstein
A healthcare professional talks with a young patient (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

Talk to your teen about sex and SSRIs

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Doctor explains something to his patient whilst writing a prescription (Getty Images/sturti)

The miracle molecule no one can get

Aaron Ferguson
An activist holds placard during a 'Rally for Climate Sanity' outside Calgary's Town Hall in opposition to the 24th World Petroleum Congress Opening Ceremony, on September 17, 2023, in Calgary, Canada. (Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Dr. Michael Mann on "our fragile moment"

Matthew Rozsa
Storm Cloud Over A Farm (Getty Images/sakchai vongsasiripat)

Microplastics are in the clouds

Matthew Rozsa
New York City, Aerial view of city with Statue of Liberty at sunset (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

NYC is sinking, increasing flood risk

Matthew Rozsa
Kim Nguyen, pharmacist, prepares to give a Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine at CVS, 12550 Louetta Rd., Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, in Cypress, Texas. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Hiccups reported in COVID vax rollout

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Nurse standing by elderly woman sitting on wheelchair (Getty Images/Morsa Images)

Nursing homes still waiting for vaccines

Jordan Rau, Tony Leys - KFF Health News
In this handout provided by NASA, Expedition 69 NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is helped out of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft just minutes after he and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on September 27, 2023. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)

New record for longest US spaceflight

Matthew Rozsa
Paramedics carrying patient in ambulance at night (Getty Images/Cavan Images)

How Oregon's drug policy impact overdose

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Pile of Worn Out Tires (Getty Images/Mint Images)

EVs have a tire-shredding problem

Paul Krantz - Grist
Indigenous people react as they watch a broadcast of the 'Temporal Framework' trial on a screen installed in front of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) in Brasilia, Brazil on September 21, 2023. (Mateus Bonomi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Brazil Court upholds Indigenous rights

Lyric Aquino - Grist
Underwater Kelp Forrest (Getty Images/Douglas Klug)

Can seaweed clean up the Gulf of Mexico?

Matthew Rozsa
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