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Science & Health (page 60)

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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
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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
Planet Mars (Getty Images/SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

AI could help us find life on Mars

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Autistic child with headphones at home (Getty Images/Maskot)

Autism is not "demonic" or a mistake

Matthew Rozsa
Young woman holding birth control pills blister pack (Getty Images/Dimitri Otis)

The first OTC birth control is coming

Carmela Zuniga, Katherine Key
This Scanning Electron Micrograph Sem Depicts A Flagellated Vibrio Vulnificus Bacterium; Mag. 13184X. (BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images)

Flesh-eating bacteria infections rising

Bill Sullivan - The Conversation
Abstract world inside your mind, illustration (Getty Images/Benjavisa)

The science of emotional balance

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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A Bosch heat pump that has just been installed and a workman's case can be seen in front of a semi-detached house. (Doreen Garud/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Install more energy-saving heat pumps

Katie Myers - Grist
Daisy coming out of cracked earth (Getty Images/ljubaphoto)

Can we put a stop to suicide contagion?

Owen Racer
Accretion of a star by a supermassive black hole (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK)

Black holes eat faster than we thought

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Blowing the shofar (Getty Images/John Theodor)

Yom Kippur and your mental health

Matthew Rozsa
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Chandrayaan-3 on the moon (Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO))

Chandrayaan-3 analyzes sulfur on Moon

Jeffrey Gillis-Davis - The Conversation
Asteroid approaching earth (Getty Images/dzika_mrowka)

Bennu asteroid may strike Earth in 2182

Matthew Rozsa
An aerial view of New Orleans can be seen from a drone above the Mississippi River on April 1, 2023 in New Orleans, La. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Saltwater intrusion in NOLA water supply

Kelly McClure
A Greek flag flutters in the wind during a wildfire in Chasia in the outskirts of Athens on August 22, 2023. (ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Think this summer was bad? Just wait

Émile P. Torres
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Drag n' Tag (Photo courtesy of University of Miami)

Drag queens serve up shark science

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Rear view of teenage girls and boys learning in classroom (Getty Images/Maskot)

Schools the front line against stress

George B. Sánchez-Tello - Capital & Main
American mink (Neovison vison / Mustela vison), mustelid native to North America on river bank. (Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Hundreds of mink set loose from fur farm

Matthew Rozsa
Raccoon sitting on a tree (Getty Images/Enn Li Photography)

How to make tasty vaccines for raccoons

Emily Mullin - Undark
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