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Condoms in red wrappers (Getty Images / Alberto Tudor / 500px)

Why are fewer Americans using condoms?

Nicole Karlis
Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) on human skin (Getty Images/epantha)

A mysterious tick-related meat allergy

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Scene setter images outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 in Atlanta, GA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Leprosy is probably endemic to Florida

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Nicotine patch, chewin gum and ecigarette (Getty Images/pixinoo)

Why e-cigs may help pregnant people quit

Nicole Karlis
Doctor Examining Pregnant Woman (Getty Images/chuanchai)

Maternity care access is worsening

Nicole Karlis
Artistic reconstruction of a group of Burgessomedusa phasmiformis swimming in the Cambrian sea (Reconstruction by Christian McCall)

Oldest known swimming jellyfish revealed

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Niels Bohr (1885-1862), Danish physicist. Noble Prize winner, 1922, seated at his desk (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Oppenheimer's hero was also problematic

Matthew Rozsa
A tubular hydrothermal vent that releases hot water, known as a "black smoker", in the Pacific Ocean (Getty Images/Ralph White)

Deep sea creatures impacted by mining

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A photo of Henrietta Lacks, sits in the living room of her grandson, Ron Lacks, 57, in Baltimore, MD on March 22, 2017. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Henrietta Lacks family settles lawsuit

Troy Farah
Early commissioning test image from Euclid’s Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument (ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA)

Europe's telescope shows "dark universe"

Matthew Rozsa
Volunteer planting a tree (Getty Images/pipat wongsawang)

U.S. tree planting efforts fall short

Nicole Karlis
Melting icebergs are seen on Horseshoe Island as Turkish scientists conduct fieldwork on Horseshoe Island within 7th National Antarctic Science Expedition under the coordination of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye (TUBITAK) MAM Polar Research Institute with the joint responsibilities of the Turkish Presidency and Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technology in Antarctica, on February 26, 2023. (Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Antarctica missing massive sea ice

Matthew Rozsa
Tori Kelly (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Knowing about blood clots saves lives

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Two men in discussion (Getty Images/fizkes)

How to fight like a philosopher

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Pink menstrual cup against black background with stars (Getty Images/TatianaMagoyan)

Why menstrual cups in space matter

Rae Hodge
Participants holding signs demanding subway accessibility in Brooklyn, New York. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

COVID changed disability rights forever

Matthew Rozsa
Kristin Lyerly, an obstetrician-gynecologist, lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin. These days she drives across the border to work in rural Minnesota. “I want to practice medicine here,” she says, “but first we have to get rid of this law.” (Sarah Varney/KFF HEALTH NEWS)

1849 law restricting women's health care

Sarah Varney - KFF Health News
A park in Stockholm, Sweden at evening time (Getty Images/Yelizaveta Tomashevska)

We need more parks, not air pollution

Jackie Ostfeld
Geometry of the Mind (Getty Images/agsandrew)

Unlocking the brain's spiral symphony

Lindsay Kalter
A view of decaying FSO Safer oil tanker anchored 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of the port of Hudaydah, Yemen on July 15, 2023. The tanker has not undergone maintenance since 2015 and more than 1 million barrels of crude oil have been sitting in the decaying vessel in the Red Sea. (Mohammed Hamoud/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Disaster threatening the Red Sea

Saqib Rahim - Grist
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution near-infrared light. (NASA / ESA / CSA / Joseph DePasquale (STScI))

Baby stars spotted by James Webb

Matthew Rozsa
David Grusch, former National Reconnaissance Officer Representative of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force at the U.S. Department of Defense, testifies during a House Oversight Committee hearing titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency" on Capitol Hill 26, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Whistleblower on the truth about UFOs

Chris Impey - The Conversation
Fruit fly (Drosophila Melanogaster) on a leaf (Getty Images/janeff)

Scientists turn on "virgin birth" in fly

Nicole Karlis
Sleeping Newborn Baby (Getty Images/Lisa5201)

Debunking chestfeeding misinformation

Nicole Karlis
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