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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
Orangutan (Getty Images/Manoj Shah)

Orangutans are being pushed to the brink

Assaf Levy
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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
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
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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
Pouncing Saber Tooth (Getty Images/Daniel Eskridge)

Fires drove ancient mass extinctions

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Elon Musk VS. Mark Zuckerberg (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg: Fight me!

Rae Hodge
(Getty/George Clerk)

A memoir in praise of complex science

Mark Harris - Undark
Barbie & Artificial Intelligence (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Barbie vs the Dark Side of generative AI

Paige Collings, Rory Mir
(Getty/Stuart Ritchie)

Opioid settlement cash going to police

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Montana State Capitol Building (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Montana youth win historic climate case

Katie Myers - Grist
Homeless people gather on Willow Street in the Tenderloin on Wednesday, May 6, 2020 in San Francisco, California. (Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Housing, not drugs, is driving poverty

Morgan Godvin - Truthout
The aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina, western Maui, Hawaii on August 11, 2023. A wildfire that left Lahaina in charred ruins has killed at least 67 people, authorities said on August 11, making it one of the deadliest disasters in the US state's history. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Maui survivors describe fleeing wildfire

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Allergic man blowing on wipe in a park on spring season a sunny day (Getty Images/Pheelings Media)

An alternative to allergy shots

Esther Landhuis - Undark
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A plant of the industrial hemp variety Futura 75 stands in the Hemp Museum in Berlin. (Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images)

The hemp industry is at risk

Rod Kight
Satellite image of Hurricane Katia (left) making landfall over the Mexican state of Veracruz, Hurricane Irma (center) approaching Cuba, and Hurricane Jose reaching peak intensity on September 8, 2017. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Prepare for aggressive hurricane season

Rae Hodge
Maxar satellite imagery showing total destruction of the Lahaina square and outlets after the Lahaina Wildfire, with one building still actively burning. (Satellite image (c) 2023 Maxar Technologies / Getty Images)

Toxins from Maui fires pose health risk

Andrew J. Whelton - The Conversation
(Getty/agnormark)

Coal plant closure win for public health

Katie Myers - Grist
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