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Exhausted construction worker (Getty Images/FG Trade)

Workers pay the price under extreme heat

Amy Maxmen - KFF Health News
Avi Loeb, physicist at Harvard University, poses for a portrait in the observatory near his office in Cambridge, MA. (Adam Glanzman/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Alien astrophysicist rebukes his critics

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Woman with shocked facial expression (Getty Images/GeorgePeters)

The neuroscience and physiology of fear

Arash Javanbakht - The Conversation
Exoplanet concept art (Getty Images/janiecbros)

Giant new exoplanet is denser than steel

Matthew Rozsa
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Planet Earth and asteroid in the space, concept (Getty Images/buradaki)

Asteroid to swing by Earth on Wednesday

Matthew Rozsa
Silicon Valley investors Michael Moritz, Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon are backing a company called Flannery Associates that has been buying large parcels of land adjacent to Travis Air Force base approximately 60 miles northeast of San Francisco. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Welcome to the Big Tech company town

Rae Hodge
Space junk around Earth (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Space junk is only going to increase

Chris Impey - The Conversation
A patient at Hillside mental hospital undergoes electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), whereby an electric current is passed through the head. Developed in the 1930's, this controversial method is used in the treatment of severe depression in adults. (Carl Purcell/Three Lions/Getty Images)

Mysteries of electroconvulsive therapy

Astrid Landon - Undark
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Cute pug dog sleeping on the floor (Getty Images/fongleon356)

Global heat will afflict snoutless dogs

Matthew Rozsa
A headquarters for the Church of Scientology is seen January 16, 2013 in Clearwater, Florida. (Getty Images)

Scientologists oppose right-to-repair

Rae Hodge
Colorful toucan in forest (Getty Images/Waldemar Seehagen)

Filling in biodiversity knowledge gaps

Ana Clara Faria
Teenage boy sleeping in the library (Getty Images/Mayur Kakade)

This is your brain on sleeplessness

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Overhead view on schoolboy and schoolgirl at school desk (Getty Images/golero)

Patients can't find Adderall in shortage

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Two prescription bottles with pain pills spilling out of them (Getty Images)

When AI decides what pain meds you get

Andy Miller, Sam Whitehead - KFF Health News
Fried Egg On Non-Stick Frying Pan (Getty Images/Maryna Terletska)

PFAS are everywhere

Matthew Rozsa
Campers hiking in a foggy field (Getty Images/rbkomar)

Surviving the troubled teen industry

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Scuba diver with a large school of batfish and a green sea turtle. (Getty Images/Georgette Douwma)

Turtle shells tainted by radioactivity

Anita Hofschneider - Grist
A member of the public poses for a photo in front of Tower Bridge whilst wearing a protective mask (Alex Davidson/Getty Images)

COVID's summer surge continues into fall

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Theoretical Physicist Avi Loeb speaks during the New Space Exploration Initiative "Breakthrough Starshot" Announcement at One World Observatory on April 12, 2016 in New York City. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize Foundation)

Proof of aliens on the deep sea floor?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Close-up of senior woman using cannabis at home (Getty Images/Emilija Manevska)

It's time to deschedule marijuana

Ricardo Baca
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Spinning Galaxy (Getty Images/cokada)

Singing the ancient hymn of the Big Bang

Rae Hodge
US President Joe Biden speaks during an event celebrating the lowering of drug pricing in the East Room of the White House on August 29, 2023 in Washington DC, United States. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

About the new drug pricing negotiations

Arthur Allen, Rachana Pradhan, David Hilzenrath - KFF Health News
A pigeon flies over a Exxon mobil gas station (Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images)

Exxon: climate goals destined to fail

Lyric Aquino - Grist
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector assembly is pictured in a tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), during maintenance works on February 6, 2020 in Cessy, France, near Geneva. (VALENTIN FLAURAUD/AFP via Getty Images)

LHC finds neutrinos

Matthew Rozsa
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