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A young boy stands at their home full with mud and debris after the flood caused by Ulua River's overfloow due to heavy heavy rains of Hurricane Iota in Potrerillos municipality near San Pedro Sula, Honduras on November 20, 2020. (WENDELL ESCOTO/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change displaced 43 million kids

Matthew Rozsa
Psychedelic drug, concept (Getty Images/wildpixel)

How psychedelics change the brain

Edmund S. Higgins - The Conversation
Father and child playing with blocks (Getty Images/AleksandarNakic)

Why your brain needs more play: Experts

Elizabeth Hlavinka
The researchers think that infrared light particles (photons) from the poles of the pulsar are boosted to gamma-ray energies (blue) by fast electrons. (Science Communication Lab for DESY)

Vera pulsar breaks a new energy record

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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A nurse prepares an injection of the Moderna dose vaccine on 26 September, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. (Alejandro Martinez Velez/Europa Press via Getty Images)

Flu-COVID combo vaccines on the horizon

Troy Farah
Kaiser Permanente employees, joined by Union members representing the workers, walk the picket line in Los Angeles, California on October 4, 2023. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Kaiser health care workers on strike

Michael McQuarrie - The Conversation
A man is seen walking on a foggy warm sunrise during a new heat record in The Netherlands. In Nijmegen, on September 10th, 2023. (Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

September sets yet another heat record

Max Graham - Grist
Surgeon wearing a medical mask (Getty Images/pipat wongsawang)

Should hospitals be bringing back masks?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Medical syringe and vaccine with cash (Getty Images/Yulia Naumenko)

Big Pharma slowed vaccine development

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - ProPublica
A covid-19 vaccine is seen with the Novavax logo in the background. (Photo Illustration by Nikos Pekiaridis/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Novavax COVID-19 vaccine approved

Elizabeth Hlavinka
This illustration shows a messy, chaotic galaxy undergoing bursts of star formation. (ESA/NASA/L. Calçada)

Science explains "impossible" galaxies

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Mercury (Getty Images/themotioncloud)

Shrinking planet Mercury getting smaller

David Rothery - The Conversation
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Portrait of a young woman, with the shadow of a rose (Getty Images/Westend61)

The study of smell loss still struggles

Hannah Docter-Loeb - Undark
Monk Parakeet (Getty Images/iculizard)

Parrots have "voiceprints" like humans

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Amazon River Dolphin (Getty Images/Michel VIARD)

Climate change kills Amazon dolphins

Matthew Rozsa
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
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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
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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
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