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Illustration of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system. (Courtesy of NASA)

Americans support asteroid defense funds

Robin George Andrews - Undark
A mobile home park is destroyed along Pacific Coast Highway during the Palisades Fire on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, in Pacific Palisades, CA. (Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

The risk of toxic exposure post-disaster

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Therapy appointment with a teenage patient (Getty Images/fotostorm)

The link between trauma and addiction

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A burned building on Sunset Boulevard during the Palisades Fire on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, in Pacific Palisades, CA. (Photo by (Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

A history of California's fire struggles

James Thornton Harris
Person admiring the Northern Lights (aurora borealis) (Getty Images/Marco Bottigelli)

Psychedelic healing and feelings of awe

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A view of the sign of Center for Disease Control headquarters is seen in Atlanta, Georgia, United States on August 06, 2022. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Is bird flu info threatened under Trump?

Nicole Karlis
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) calls on reporters following the weekly Senate Democrat caucus policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on January 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Chuck Schumer urges: declassify UFO docs

Matthew Rozsa
Wegovy, an injectable prescription weight loss medicine that has helped people with obesity. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Semaglutide: a "wonder drug" with risks

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Iceberg melting in Disko Bay in Greenland (Getty Images/Paul Souders)

We need Greenland but not the Trump way

Paul Bierman - Undark
Highly detailed crescent Moon (Getty Images/Javier Zayas Photography)

NASA awards $24 million for moon bases

Matthew Rozsa
Lab technician pulls DNA and RNA from rhesus monkey bone marrow cells to verify gene editing in the laboratory of Dr. John Tisdale, a Senior Investigator at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Laboratory, at the National Institutes of Health on February 8, 2024, in Bethesda, Maryland. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump abruptly cancels NIH meetings

Nicholas Liu
Two so-called sun stones, which are small flat shale pieces with finely incised patterns and sun motifs. They are known only from the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. (National Museum of Denmark)

"Sun stones" to ward off deadly volcano

Matthew Rozsa
Trump signing an executive order over a crowd of protestors waving LGBTQ+ flags. (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images)

Trump's anti-trans, anti-abortion order

Nicole Karlis
Donald Trump over a satellite photo of Hurricane Milton (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's "energy emergency" isn't real

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump | World Health Organization sign (Salon/Getty Images)

Trump signs executive order for WHO exit

Nicole Karlis
Declining sea ice may present the largest threat to Pacific walrus populations in the future. (Devin Johnson / USFWS Permit PRT #MA33776D)

The internet is trying to save walruses

Matthew Rozsa
Four male chimpanzees at the Kumamoto Sanctuary (Courtesy of the Kumamoto Sanctuary)

Urine good company, chimp study finds

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump and pro-choice protesters (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's attacks on abortion go global

Nicole Karlis
DNA mirrored (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How mirror life poses existential risks

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Blood sample positive with sexually transmitted diseases: HIV, HBV, HCV, Syphilis (Getty Images/jarun011)

A new treament slowing the STI crisis?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Walking through darkness to the light (Getty Images/francescoch)

Pursuit of death on psychiatric grounds

Frieda Klotz - Undark
Diet of a pea on a plate (Getty Images/ziquiu)

We need better eating disorder treatment

Elizabeth Hlavinka
In this photo taken on April 25, 2024 a farmer shows a dried up corn at a drought-stricken farm in San Antonio, Nueva Ecija. (JAM STA ROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change already changing our diet

Matthew Rozsa
A row of oil refineries line the water of the Port of Corpus Christi. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Sea level rise comes for major oil ports

Matthew Rozsa
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