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Dialog (Getty Images/Boris Zhitkov)

Show of hands: The science of gesture

Mary Elizabeth Williams
KHARKIV, UKRAINE - MAY 4, 2023 - Destroyed laboratories are pictured in the building of Karazin University's Education and Research Institute "School of Physics and Technology" that was affected by the shelling of Russian troops in the first months of the Russia-Ukraine war, Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo credit should read Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy / Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Ukrainian science is struggling

Ina Ganguli, Michael E. Rose, Oleksandra Ivashchenko, Stefano Horst Baruffaldi - The Conversation
A man is seen blocking the sun with a fan at Shanghai, China, on July 6, 2023 as Shanghai issues an orange alert for the continuous heatwave. (Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Hottest day ever, four days in a row

Matthew Rozsa
Mud is seen on land that was under the Salton Sea a few years ago on January 1, 2019 near Calipatria, California, United States. (David McNew/Getty Images for Lumix)

Scientists warned of Salton Sea disaster

Fletcher Reveley - Undark
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Wasp in flight (Getty Images/Renaud Visage)

Wasps are smart, mean and misunderstood

Matthew Rozsa
A selection of deep-sea specimens from the Natural History Museum in London's collection. (Trustees of the Natural History Museum London)

Rotting museum specimens equal setbacks

Darren Incorvaia - Undark
Clinical research to develop a possible cure for Alzheimer's and dementia in the lab. (TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES)

FDA approves new Alzheimer's drug

Kelly McClure
Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg attends a media conference following a results of a first meeting of the newly created international working group for environmental crimes of Russia in Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine 29 June 2023, amid Russian invasion of Ukraine. (STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Greta Thunberg arrested after protest

Matthew Rozsa
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White-eyed Vireo (Kelly Colgan Azar/Flickr)

Earlier spring equals fewer baby birds

Nicole Karlis
Hot sun. (chuchart duangdaw via Getty Images)

July 4 was the hottest day on record

Matthew Rozsa
Little water remaining in a drying lake bed. Nevada continues to suffer through a drought. (Ty O'Neil/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

A future of droughts and heatwaves

Matthew Rozsa
This deep galaxy field from Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) shows an arrangement of 10 distant galaxies marked by eight white circles in a diagonal, thread-like line. (Two of the circles contain more than one galaxy.) This 3 million light-year-long filament is anchored by a very distant and luminous quasar – a galaxy with an active, supermassive black hole at its core. (NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang (University of Arizona), Joseph DePasquale (STScI))

Webb spies early string of cosmic web

Nicole Karlis
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Steve Buscemi, Will Patton, Bruce Willis, Michael Clarke Duncan, Ben Affleck, and Owen Wilson walking in NASA uniforms in a scene from the film 'Armageddon', 1998. (Touchstone/Getty Images)

"Armageddon" at 25: An anti-science epic

Matthew Rozsa
Diseased human liver on science background. 3D illustration (Rasi Bhadramani via Getty Images) (Getty Images)

Liver disease improved by weight loss

Dimitrios Koutoukidis - The Conversation
Amazon River Dolphin or Boto (Inia geoffrensis) Underwater, playing with leaf, Rio Negro, Amazon, Brazil (Getty Images/Kevin Schafer)

Pink dolphins at risk in the Amazon

Rae Hodge
The sun sets behind smoke from a distant wildfire as drought conditions worsen on July 12, 2021 near Glennville, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Blocking the sun to slow global warming?

Rae Hodge
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Vascular system CGI (Storman via Getty Images)

The big business of clogged arteries

Annie Waldman - ProPublica
Yellow crab on the beach (Getty Images/Bob Stefko)

Crabs are intelligent, sensitive animals

Matthew Rozsa
Octopus in action (Getty Images/Nikos Stavrinidis/500px)

Is it ethical to eat octopuses?

Matthew Rozsa
Medical marijuana moroccan hash cannabis pollen hashish closeup in morocco (jackmalipan via Getty Images)

A brief history of cannabis hash

Roger Volodarsky
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Powdered milk in plastic spoon on pink background (HUIZENG HU via Getty Images)

Formula shortage fueled unsafe feeding

Nicole Karlis
BITTER SPRINGS, ARIZONA - JANUARY 1: A rainbow is seen above homes in the Navajo Nation, on January 1, 2023 in Bitter Springs, Arizona. Reports say that nearly 40% of Navajo Nation is living without running water. Despite living near the Colorado River the Navajo Nation was left out of talks almost a hundred years ago when rule makers were drawing up the Colorado River Compact.(Photo by RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

How Arizona stands between tribes' water

Mark Olalde, Umar Farooq, Anna V. Smith - ProPublica
This photograph taken on January 10, 2023 shows a pile of recyclable plastic trash at the Syctom waste management company in Paris. (THOMAS SAMSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Why it's hard to ban "forever" chemicals

Matthew Rozsa
Cabinet of replica human fosil skulls. From a college dept of Anthropology. (kickstand via Getty Images)

New study upends human evolution history

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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