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Rescued chickens gather in an aviary at Farm Sanctuary’s Southern California Sanctuary on October 5, 2022 in Acton, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Your questions about bird flu answered

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Executive director of Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research uses a stereo scope to examine a sediment sample to identify microplastics within a sample in Long Beach on Tuesday, October 1, 2024. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Microplastics in brains are accumulating

Matthew Rozsa
The contents of a Narcan first aid kit are shown. (Michelle Mengsu Chang/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

A gentler drug overdose reversal

Claire Zagorski
The sun is reflected on the sand on a warm, winter day at La Jolla Shores beach as smoke from the Los Angeles fires settles on the Pacific Ocean at sunset on January 10, 2025 in San Diego, California. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

Is climate change spiraling out faster?

Matthew Rozsa
Flames overtake the intersection of Temescal Canyon and Pacific Coast Highway Fire at the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades California on January 7, 2025. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

We just had the hottest January recorded

Matthew Rozsa
People with different skills, mindsets or psychological features. (Getty Images/Azurhino)

Popular autism therapy could be harmful

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

The rush to preserve data Trump deleted

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Donald Trump and the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO). (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Withdrawing from WHO puts US at risk

Elizabeth Hlavinka
ATLANTA, GA - OCTOBER 05: A podium with the logo for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the Tom Harkin Global Communications Center on October 5, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia. The first confirmed Ebola virus patient in the United States was staying with family members at The Ivy Apartment complex before being treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. State and local officials are working with federal officials to monitor other individuals that had contact with the confirmed patient. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

CDC ordered to pull gender studies

Nicole Karlis
Jupiter seen from the surface of volcanic moon Io. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Heavy volcanic eruption on Jupiter's Io

Matthew Rozsa
The Aedes mosquito is a known vector for several viruses, including West Nile virus, yellow fever virus, dengue virus, chikungunya virus, and Zika virus. (Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Zika makes human skin "mosquito magnet"

Nicole Karlis
Donald Trump and chickens confined to their hen house (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Bird flu info frozen amidst Trump chaos

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A Man from Pasi community (a Dalit or untouchable community of India) serving toddy (Palm wine), a traditional alcoholic drink made from the sap of palm trees. (Pradeep Gaur/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Lessons from Bihar, India's booze ban

Niko Vorobyov
Sad woman with smart phone (Getty Images/D-Keine)

Seeking abortion care? Be data cautious

Nicole Karlis
Emergency response units search the crash site of the American Airlines plane on the Potomac River after the plane crashed last night on approach to Reagan National Airport on January 30, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Aviation expert "embarrassed" by Trump

Matthew Rozsa, Cara Michelle Smith
Center for Disese Control (CDC) lab technicians conducting virus research in 1952. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Trump admin stalling bird flu studies

Amy Maxmen - KFF Health News
Asteroid approaching planet Earth (Getty Images/dzika_mrowka)

Life ingredients discovered on asteroid

Matthew Rozsa
Flying foxes flying in the sky at 17 island marine park in Riung, Flores, Indonesia. (Getty Images/Bruno Guerreiro)

Why bats don't get sick from viruses

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Will Trump go after harm reduction?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
This photo illustration shows the DeepSeek app on a mobile phone. (MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images)

DeepSeek: Less AI drain on environment?

Matthew Rozsa
Towana Looney, 53, who received a gene-edited pig kidney undergoes medical testing at NYU Langone Health on December 11, 2024 in New York. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Pig organ transplantee passes milestone

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump VS demonstrators rallying in support of abortion rights at the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump on abortion is "complete chaos"

Nicole Karlis
A duckling is vaccinated with Volvac vaccine against Influenza in a breeding in Renung, southwestern France, on July 1, 2024. (GAIZKA IROZ/AFP via Getty Images)

First detection of H5N9 flu in poultry

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Ecstasy tablets, with an imprint of the country of Australia (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why Australia has embraced psychedelics

Niko Vorobyov
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