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Woman does a hormonal blood test to check for menopause (Getty Images/Anchiy)

Healthcare is failing us on menopause

Anna Sullivan
Nuclear power plant at sunset (Getty Images/Anton Petrus)

Why we abandoned nuclear energy

Nick O’Hara
President Lyndon B Johnson Lifts Beagle by the Ears (Getty Images/Bettmann Contributor)

LBJ picked up his dog by the ears

Matthew Rozsa
Young woman looking at products in a pharmacy (Getty Images/PeopleImages)

FDA could approve OTC birth control

Nicole Karlis
Waterfall in Green Forest (Getty Images/Constantine Johnny)

Want to protect nature? Pay people

Matthew Rozsa
Red Evil Artificial Intelligence, concept (Getty Images/tampatra)

Why we need a megaproject for AI safety

Jacy Reese Anthis
PCR testing site for COVID-19 variants at a new test facility at Tom Bradley International Terminal (Terminal B) that health officials hope will help them spot new variants that may emerge from passengers arriving from other countries at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday, Jan. 2, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The CDC has stopped tracking COVID cases

Nicole Karlis
Plastic bag drifting in the botnia Gulf on May 3, 2023 near Pietarsaari, during the late spring as the sea-ice is slowly melting. (OLIVIER MORIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Hope for the plastic pollution crisis

Matthew Rozsa
Jumping humpback whale (Getty Images/Mi. Sha)

Whale activists tilting at windmills

Nicole Karlis
Smiling woman (Getty Images/Artem Hvozdkov)

A subtle clue can help "out" narcissists

Matthew Rozsa
Artist’s impression of an aurora and the surrounding radiation belt of the ultracool dwarf LSR J1835+3259. (Chuck Carter / Melodie Kao / Heising-Simons Foundation)

Massive auroras in another solar system

Troy Farah
Red eyed man holding tissue to his nose (Getty Images/heidijpix)

Is it pink eye, allergies…or COVID?

Troy Farah
Farmer spraying pesticides at a tobacco farm (Getty Images/Vithun Khamsong)

How forever chemicals get into our food

Matthew Rozsa
A Covid-19 testing tent sits along a Manhattan street on March 09, 2023 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Why the US may never recover from COVID

Nicole Karlis
Dungeness crab on a dock (Getty Images/Ashley-Belle Burns)

Are crabs doomed?

Matthew Rozsa
Fern Brady attends the National Comedy Awards 2023 at the Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London. (Ian West/PA Images via Getty Images)

Making it as an autistic comedian

Matthew Rozsa
A woman wearing a mask walks in the crowd (Arne Dedert/picture alliance via Getty Images)

All my COVID precautions were in vain

Maggie Mills
Plastic pollution in the ocean (Getty Images)

Plastic-eating microbes found in Alps

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/kosmos111)

Genetically altered mosquito plan nixed

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
Greenwashing, concept (Getty Images/Tanaonte)

How Big Oil infected climate discourse

Kathleen Dean Moore
Man standing on the edge of syringe needle (Getty Images/Boris Zhitkov)

Is "pre-addiction" really a thing?

Troy Farah
Baby Sleep Influencing (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The online baby sleep boom

Nicole Karlis
A view of an art installation against gun violence at March For Our Lives 'Road To Change' & Life Camp Unity Celebration on August 11, 2018 in New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

Small cities seeing gun violence spike

Matthew Rozsa
Doctor helping patient use their inhaler (Getty Images/Terry Vine)

Why are autoimmune diseases so common?

Nicole Karlis
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