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A man and woman sitting across a speech bubble (Getty Images/Klaus Vedfelt)

How to have better tough talks

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Blood bag (Getty/pictorico)

Staking out the Silicon Valley vampires

Rae Hodge
Climeworks' DAC plant "Orca", Iceland, in the night (Climeworks)

Will carbon removal tech actually work?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Children in soccer uniforms holding a trophy (Getty Images / Heide Benser)

Why is childhood such a rat race?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Deborah Blum holds a photo of her teen, Esther Iris, at home in Los Angeles. Blum and her husband, Warren, lost Esther Iris to suicide in 2021. When it came time to write the death notice, Deborah Blum was open and specific about the mental health struggles that led to her child’s death. (LAUREN JUSTICE FOR KFF HEALTH NEWS)

Should we mention suicide in obituaries?

Debby Waldman - KFF Health News
Emperor Penguin, Aptenodytes forsteri, adults and chicks at colony Snow Hill Island, Antarctica (David Tipling/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Melting ice destroying penguin habitats

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Linda Noneo's work as a community health representative for her tribe in Nevada is focused on providing transportation to health care appointments for Fallon Paiute-Shoshone members. (JAZMIN OROZCO RODRIGUEZ/KFF HEALTH NEWS)

Nevada paying tribal workers better

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez - KFF Health News
Planet Neptune (Getty Images/buradaki/NASA)

Neptune's clouds are disappearing

Matthew Rozsa
Lush valley in the Columbian jungle (Getty Images/Cavan Images)

Why carbon offsets don't work: study

Elizabeth Hlavinka
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

DOJ cites Musk tweets, sues SpaceX

Rae Hodge
An activist picks up a placard at climate group Fridays for Future's march during a Global Climate Strike in New York on March 3, 2023. (ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate anxiety can spur action: study

Matthew Rozsa
Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431-1477) posthumously dubbed Vlad the Impaler, Voivode of Wallachia (1456-1462). (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dracula may have wept blood: study

Rae Hodge
An Indian paramilitary trooper stands guard as a live telecast is aired near a clock tower in Srinagar on August 23, 2023, showing the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft minutes before its successful lunar landing on the south pole of the Moon. (TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP via Getty Images)

India is fourth nation to land on Moon

Matthew Rozsa
Demonstrator waving the Trans flag (Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Gender-affirming surgeries on the rise

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Psyche asteroid in space (Getty Images/24K-Production/NASA)

What NASA’s Psyche mission may reveal

Jim Bell - The Conversation
This Scanning Electron Micrograph Sem Depicts A Flagellated Vibrio Vulnificus Bacterium; Mag. 13184X. (BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images)

Flesh-eating bacteria spreads across US

Troy Farah
Flames engulf trees along a highway near Fort McMurray, Alberta, on May 6, 2016. (COLE BURSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

How to survive a future of wildfires

Matthew Rozsa
COVID-19 vaccines stored at -80 degrees celsius in the pharmacy at Roseland Community Hospital on December 18, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

COVID is back. Where are the vaccines?

Matthew Rozsa
Formed by a star throwing off its outer layers as it runs out of fuel, the Ring Nebula is an archetypal planetary nebula. Also known as M57 and NGC 6720, it is relatively close to Earth at roughly 2,500 light-years away. (ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, M. Barlow (UCL), N. Cox (ACRI-ST), R. Wesson (Cardiff University))

Ring Nebula revealed by Webb telescope

Rae Hodge
Area 51 Main Gate (David James Henry/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA)

What is most likely going on in Area 51?

Christopher Nichols - The Conversation
Mexican Hogfish (Reinhard Dirscherlullstein bild via Getty Images)

The color changing magic of the hogfish

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Protesters hold a banner which states "Make polluters pay" during the demonstration in Parliament Square. Thousands of people marched through Westminster in protest against the destruction of nature, biodiversity loss and climate change on Earth Day. (Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Rich "super emitters" pollute the worst

Matthew Rozsa
A banner is displayed as Indigenous and frontline land defenders and community members, who are directly impacted by extraction and destruction funded by JPMorgan Chase, demand that the bank stops all financing of fossil fuels during a protest outside the JPMorgan Chase Glasgow Headquarters in Glasgow on November 10, 2021, during the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference. (PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

California banks can't quit fossil fuels

Aaron Cantú - Capital & Main
This artist's concept shows a face-on view of the XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft. (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab)

New X-ray telescope to be launched

Rae Hodge
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