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Consuming Credit Cards (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How much plastic are we actually eating?

Matthew Rozsa
HOLLYWOOD, CA - APRIL 20: (Editors Note: Image has been converted to black and white) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks on stage at "Keep It Clean" To Benefit Waterkeeper Alliance at Avalon on April 20, 2017 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for Waterkeeper Alliance )

Tech boosting RFK's anti-vaccine message

Darius Tahir - KFF Health News
Surgeons in Scrubs and Protective Masks Look Down at a Patient on a Hospital Trolley (Getty Images/Janie Airey)

Medical debt is a human rights violation

Noam N. Levey - KFF Health News
Pregnant Woman Having Blood Glucose Checked (Getty Images/Jovanmandic)

Pandemic linked to diabetes in pregnancy

Nicole Karlis
Flat square glass with blue violet green gradient. (wacomka via Getty Images)

Why glass still surprises scientists

John Mauro, Katelyn Kirchner - The Conversation
Quasar SDSS J0100+2802, EIGER (Emission-line galaxies and Intergalactic Gas in the Epoch of Reionization) Survey (NASA, ESA, CSA, Simon Lilly (ETH Zürich), Daichi Kashino (Nagoya University), Jorryt Matthee (ETH Zürich), Christina Eilers (MIT), Rob Simcoe (MIT), Rongmon Bordoloi (NCSU), Ruari Mackenzie (ETH Zürich); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Ruari Macken)

James Webb highlights ancient galaxies

Matthew Rozsa
Closeup of a bunch of dead fruit flies (stockstudioX via Getty Images)

How dead fruit flies harm living ones

Christi Gendron - The Conversation
Activists for transgender rights gather in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on April 1, 2023. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trans kids need gender affirming care

Matthew Rozsa
Healthcare costs and fees (Getty Images/Prapass Pulsub)

Biden to states: Slow Medicaid cuts

Hannah Recht - KFF Health News
Mental Thread Tangled Knotted (Getty Images/solidcolours)

You’re misusing the term ‘trauma bonded’

Nicole Karlis
Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer (Getty/Aaron P. Bernstein)

Is Congress finally taking AI seriously?

Rae Hodge
Big fresh carp (Voren1 via Getty Images) (Voren1 via Getty Images)

A $1.2 billion fish barricade

Tom Johnson - Undark
Police | Narcan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

After drug busts, drug overdoses soar

Nicole Karlis
View Of Earth's Moon Against The Sky At Night (Getty Images/Alexander Rieber/EyeEm)

Microbial life may exist on the Moon

Matthew Rozsa
View of the downtown Phoenix, Arizona city skyline as seen from South Mountain Park (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Arizona's water crisis is slowing growth

Jake Bittle - Grist
Opioid epidemic health danger and medical crisis with a prescription painkiller addiction concept as a group of pills devastating a patient (Getty Images)

No one-size-fits-all for addiction

Bernard J. Wolfson - KFF Health News
Two-spotted Octopus, Octopus bimaculoides, portrait at Sea of Cortez, Baja California Mexico. (Luis Javier Sandoval/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Octopuses can change their own genes

Matthew Rozsa
Great White Shark (Getty Images/Stephen Frink)

Californians frequently swim near sharks

Nicole Karlis
Sleepy Pigeon (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Study suggests pigeons dream of flying

Matthew Rozsa
Robot holding human skull (Getty Images/xia yuan)

AI, the tech elite and "extinction"

Émile P. Torres
Theodore Roosevelt (Getty Images/John Parrot/Stocktrek Images)

Teddy Roosevelt's massive racism

Matthew Rozsa
Baby reaching for a bottle (Getty Images/Emma Kim)

The infant milk allergy mystery persists

Christina Szalinski - Undark
Wild saltwater crocodile babies rest on the head of their mother (Then Chih Wey/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Crocodile ‘virgin' birth isn’t a miracle

Nicole Karlis
Mage #8, ridden by jockey Javier Castellano races during the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 06, 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

Racehorse deaths aren't a mystery

Rae Hodge
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