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Visitors to Louisville's annual Arcade Expo in 2023 were invited to play this four-flipper vintage pinball machine produced by Atari. (Photo by Rae Hodge)

Pinball vs. Big Tech's obsolesence love

Rae Hodge
Solar panels and wind turbines | Oil (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why Big Oil loves renewable energy

Nick O’Hara
(Getty Images/Westend61)

The rise of the older dad

Nicole Karlis
A construction crew works on a section of privately built border wall funded by hardline immigration group We Build The Wall on December 11, 2019 near Mission, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Climate migration news spurs border fear

Kate Yoder - Grist
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Opioid settlement payouts made public

Aneri Pattani - KFF Health News
Conceptual illustration of inflammation of the brain caused by a virus (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

More evidence COVID-19 changes brain

Nicole Karlis
An M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank crew with Company A, 4th Tank Battalion, fires its 120 mm main gun during the company’s pre-qualification tank gunnery at Range 500, Aug. 4, 2015. The live-fire exercise tests tank crews on their ability to work together on target acquisition and accuracy. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Julio McGraw/Released)

Ukraine gets depleted uranium munitions

Kathryn Higley - The Conversation
Rusting tanks inside the now derelict Union Carbide factory compound. These tanks used to store methyl isocyanide, the toxic chemical that leaked on December 23, 1984 killing at least 5,000 people in the following 72 hours and many thousands more subsequently. (Satish Bate/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

The '80s disaster still destroying lives

Matthew Rozsa
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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
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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
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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
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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
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