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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
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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
Handguns that were swapped for gift cards during a Los Angeles Police Department sponsored gun buyback event in Los Angeles, California on December 13, 2014. (MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

Gun violence is a public health crisis

Dan Falk - Undark
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An abortion rights activist holds a sign at a protest in support of abortion access, March To Roe The Vote And Send A Message To Florida Politicians That Abortion Access Must Be Protected And Defended, on July 13, 2022 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (John Parra/Getty Images for MoveOn)

Florida abortion clinic hosts fundraiser

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
A sign for the Food And Drug Administration is seen outside of the headquarters on July 20, 2020 in White Oak, Maryland. (Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)

Is the FDA failing to protect us?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Mutating virus variant (Getty Images/wildpixel)

Highly-mutated Covid strain identified

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Woman leaning on umbrella standing on large driftwood tree trunk on beach (Getty Images/Pete Saloutos)

How to navigate loss in an era of excess

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the Luna-25 lunar station blasting off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur Oblast of Russia's Far East on Aug. 11, 2023. (Xinhua via Getty Images)

Russia's lunar mission ends in failure

Kelly McClure
This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets' diameters, masses and distances from the host star, as of February 2018. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

An astrophysicist on alien life

Elizabeth Hlavinka
(Getty/urbazon)

Big Pharma’s playbook for expensive meds

Elisabeth Rosenthal - KFF Health News
Ultrasound pregnancy examination of a young woman in a Medical Clinic during COVID-19 outbreak (Getty Images)

Death from pregnancy doubled in U.S.

Laura Fleszar, Allison Bryant Mantha, Catherine O. Johnson, Greg Roth - The Conversation
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Orangutan (Getty Images/Manoj Shah)

Orangutans are being pushed to the brink

Assaf Levy
The audience at the Miami Seaquarium watching Lolita the killer whale at its 40th anniversary performance. (Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Orca dies after 53 years of captivity

Kelly McClure
A lonely man is sitting on the bed (Getty Images/Nes)

LGBTQ elders fear being re-closeted

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A man rows his boat in Acapulco, Guerrero State, Mexico, on August 16, 2023, following the passage of Tropical Storm Hilary. (Getty Images / FRANCISCO ROBLES / AFP)

Hurricane threatens extreme flooding

Nicholas Grondin - The Conversation
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This artist impression shows HD 45166, a massive star recently discovered to have a powerful magnetic field of 43 000 gauss, the strongest magnetic field ever found in a massive star. (ESO/L. Calçada)

New magnetic type of star discovered

Rae Hodge
Jabari Omari, a Jackson city employee, talks with a resident while helping hand out cases of bottled water at a Mississippi Rapid Response Coalition distribution site on August 31, 2022 in Jackson, Mississippi. (Brad Vest/Getty Images)

Jackson's unending water crisis

Lylla Younes - Grist
In this image obtained from the County of Maui, a wildfire burns on the island of Maui near an intersection at Hokiokio Place and Lahaina Bypass in Lahaina, Hawaii, August 9, 2023. (Photo courtesy of County of Maui / Zeke Kalua)

Lahaina locals warned of wildfire risk

Anita Hofschneider - Grist
A man rows his boat in Acapulco, Guerrero State, Mexico, on August 16, 2023, following the passage of Tropical Storm Hilary. (Getty Images / FRANCISCO ROBLES / AFP)

Hurricane Hilary approaches California

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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