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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
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
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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
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
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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
Zero Abortions (Oona Zenda/KFF Health News)

Zero abortions in red states? Not so

Sarah Varney - KFF Health News
Spinning Galaxy (Getty Images/cokada)

One Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies?

Chris Impey - The Conversation
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In hand cigarette filled with cannabis (Getty Images/Anastassiya Bezhekeneva)

No, cannabis doesn't cause schizophrenia

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A woman, who chose to remain anonymous, talks to Doctor Audrey (R) before recieving an abortion at a Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 14, 2022. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Infant deaths keep rising after Dobbs

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Humpback anglerfish (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/WikiCommons/Epipelagic)

Lost anglerfish adored by internet

Matthew Rozsa
Woman working at her laptop (Getty Images/Mariia Siurtukova)

Is telework really fostering laziness?

Matthew Rozsa
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Cat watching a small bird (Getty Images/zmijak)

House cats with bird flu could pose risk

Sarah Boden - KFF Health News
A demonstrator waves the intersex-inclusive Pride flag outside City Hall during the We The People March in protest of the hundreds of bills being introduced which are directed towards LGTBQ+ people, people of color and women on July 2, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Intersex community fighting for rights

Elizabeth Hlavinka
School of Pacific Cownose Ray, Rhinoptera steindachneri, Cabo Pulmo Marine National Park, Baja California Sur, Mexico. (Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Scientists solve mystery of ray tails

Matthew Rozsa
Close-up of an elderly man pouring out a pill from a medicine bottle. (Getty Images/Jacob Wackerhausen)

Is a new painkiller too good to be true?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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Cows at the Cornell Teaching Dairy Barn at Cornell University, and a member of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Migrants on the front lines of bird flu

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Asteroid headed toward Earth (Getty Images/Science Photo Library/ANDRZEJ WOJCICKI)

Increased odds of asteroid hitting Earth

Matthew Rozsa
Fruits of an Iboga tree (STEEVE JORDAN/AFP via Getty Images)

African psychedelic plant may be healing

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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
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