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A museum employee looks at a Dodo in display at the 'Extinction: Not the End of the World?' exhibition at The Natural History Museum on February 5, 2013 in London, England. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Experts warn of a "biological holocaust"

Matthew Rozsa
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters is seen in Washington D.C., United States on September 15, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

NASA: No evidence UFOs are aliens, sorry

Chris Impey - The Conversation
Colony of Little Brown Bats (Getty Images/Joe McDonald)

Prevent the next pandemic. Avoid bats

Steve Osofsky, Susan Lieberman - Undark
Young upset man sitting on floor (Getty Images/urbazon)

Could panic attacks be totally normal?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Pink flower inside a book (Getty Images/Alicia Llop)

A brief history of the word vagina

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Medical Marijuana (Getty Images/FilippoBacci)

The complexity of cannabis and autism

Matthew Rozsa
Rushing ambulance at night, US (Getty Images/Marco_Piunti)

Study maps overdose crisis' fourth wave

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Alessandra Sampaio (C), widow of British journalist Dom Phillips, participates in a demonstration in tribute to Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, murdered while on a reporting mission in the Amazon rainforest one year ago, at the Copacabana neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 5, 2023. (MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP via Getty Images)

Land defenders killed every two days

Lyric Aquino - Grist
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Teenage Girl Meditating in Her Room (Getty Images/Fiordaliso)

Why being young is getting worse

Richard Eckersley
Hunting Amazons, illustration from 19th century (Getty Images/clu)

Prehistoric women were hunters, too

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Doctor walking through hospital corridor (Getty Images/Johner Images)

Abortion patients flee to Illinois

Kristen Schorsch - KFF Health News
A view of devastation in disaster zones after the floods caused by the Storm Daniel ravaged the region in Derna, Libya on September 12, 2023. (Abdullah Mohammed Bonja/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Libyan floods fueled by climate change

Matthew Rozsa
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A healthcare employee prepares a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. (Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

CDC recommends new COVID boosters

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s high resolution, near-infrared look at Herbig-Haro 211 reveals exquisite detail of the outflow of a young star, an infantile analogue of our Sun. (ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, Tom Ray (Dublin))

James Webb captures new baby star

Elizabeth Hlavinka
In this photo illustration, Chat GPT logo seen displayed on a smartphone with Artifical Intelligence (AI) symbols in the background. (Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Dr. Google meets its match: Dr. ChatGPT

Andrew Leonard - KFF Health News
Marine biologist Greg Lewbart holds a marine iguana. (Courtesy of Passion Planet Ltd.)

How animals are impacted by climate

Matthew Rozsa
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A doctor with the Saxony-Anhalt Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, takes a swab from a patient at the fever outpatient clinic in Halle/Saale. (Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Questions about the Pirola COVID variant

Suresh V. Kuchipudi - The Conversation
Mexican journalist and ufologist Jaime Maussan (Jaime Nogales/Medios y Media/Getty Images)

Does Mexico have mummified aliens?

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Earth and moon from space (Getty Images/photovideostock/NASA)

Earth is exceeding its planetary bounds

Matthew Rozsa
This illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18 b could look like based on science data. K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the habitable zone and lies 120 light years from Earth. (NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI))

An exoplanet covered in oceans?

Matthew Rozsa
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Male figure walking through maze (Getty Images/OsakaWayne Studios)

Do new Alzheimer's drugs actually help?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Volunteers are seen collecting waste and plastic during the cleaning of San Andrés Beach ahead of World Environment Day on June 5th. (Jesus Merida/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Is "plastic neutral" greenwashing?

Joseph Winters - Grist
U.S. Capitol (Getty Images/Erik Pronske Photography)

Republicans move to slash CDC budget

Andy Miller, Sam Whitehead - KFF Health News
A healthcare employee prepares a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Dennis Avenue Health Center in Silver Spring, Maryland on November 21, 2022. (Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

New round of COVID boosters approved

Troy Farah
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