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Child holding a small plant (Getty Images/lovelyday12)

How plant biology mirrors our own

Carlyn Zwarenstein
View of Mount Vesuvius from the ground of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii (Getty Images/Andrea Pucci)

How volcano victim's brain turned glass

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Illustration of an asteroid approaching planet Earth (Getty Images/buradaki)

The hard science of asteroid collisions

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Autism stigma will worsen under Trump

Matthew Rozsa
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Ted Cruz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The science Ted Cruz calls “woke"

Agnel Philip, Lisa Song - ProPublica
Planet Mars (Getty Images//Cobalt88)

We now know why Mars is so red

Matthew Rozsa
A pharmacist packs HIV self-test kits at a community center operated by LoveYourself, a nonprofit impacted by the Trump administration's freeze on foreign aid, on February 19, 2025 in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. (Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)

HIV/AIDS treatment needs federal support

Jesse Milan, Stephen Lee
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in front of the Federal Prison Medical Center in Lexington Kentucky. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

No evidence drug farms treat addiction

Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch
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Donald Trump shredding the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) logo (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Gutting climate data threatens public

Carlyn Zwarenstein
U.S. Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX), Chair of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, presides over Howard Lutnick, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for Commerce Secretary, during his Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing in the Russell Senate Office Building on January 29, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Collateral damage in war against DEI

Teresa Carr, Margaret Manto - Undark
Planet Earth on fire (Getty Images/sankai)

Can humans wipe out all life on Earth?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
In Nijmegen, Netherlands, on January 12, 2025, the short-lived high water wave from Germany causes a rise in the water levels. Low parts of the quay around the harbor at the Waalkade and low parts of the dikes are underwater. (Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Losing family to climate change denial

Matthew Rozsa
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Woman climbs the stairs from darkness to light (Getty Images/Photobank Kiev)

How to thrive in uncertainty

Elizabeth Hlavinka
The Small Magellanic Cloud, a member of the Local Group of galaxies and a companion of our Milky Way Galaxy. (Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

A recipe for baby stars: Fluffy clouds

Matthew Rozsa
Pro-choice protesters march outside the Texas State Capitol on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021 in Austin, TX. Texas passed SB8 which effectively bans nearly all abortions and it went into effect Sept. 1. A request to the Supreme Court to block the bill went unanswered and the Court still has yet to take any action on it. (Sergio Flores For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Sepsis rates soar after Tx. abortion ban

Lizzie Presser, Andrea Suozzo, Sophie Chou, Kavitha Surana - ProPublica
Doctors examine an x-ray of a patient who has tuberculosis (Najlah Feanny/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why we're still fighting tuberculosis

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) (Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The world’s most charismatic mushroom

Niko Vorobyov
The examination room in A Woman's Choice of Jacksonville clinic, which provides abortion care on April 30, 2024, in Jacksonville, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

True impact of abortion bans on society

Allison Carmen
A teddy bear sits in a therapy chair in front of a child suffering from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). (Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Behind $2 million per dose gene therapy

Robin Fields - ProPublica
Abortion rights activists demonstrate in front of the National Assembly building in Quito on December 9, 2021. (RODRIGO BUENDIA/AFP via Getty Images)

Latin America's global abortion impacts

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Flaco, a Eurasian eagle owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo, continues to roost and hunt in Central Park, February 15, 2023 in New York City, New York. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Flaco the owl’s troubled freedom

David Gessner
Glyptodon (Getty Images/estt)

The Miocene era and our future climate

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Nuclear explosion with mushroom cloud on scorched earth (Getty Images/Anton Petrus)

The ultra-rich want to escape. Good idea

Troy Farah
Dog nose between pink cherry blossoms (Getty Images/Ve Shandor/500px)

Why smell and sight are close friends

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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