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Ultrasound pregnancy examination of a young woman in a Medical Clinic during COVID-19 outbreak (Getty Images)

Pregnancy-related nausea undertreated

Katheryn Houghton - KFF Health News
Earth melting (Getty Images/bestdesigns)

Record-high ocean temperatures in 2022

Matthew Rozsa
A visual representation of a Bitcoin cryptocurrency as a gold coin on a computer keyboard. (Getty Images)

NY crypto lawsuit has climate fallout

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Cost of Healthcare (Getty Images/erdikocak)

Darius Tahir
Nervous young woman using smartphone (Getty Images/Jamie Grill)

Your phone is the next doctor’s office

Hannah Norman - KFF Health News
Working oil pumps against a sunset sky (Getty Images/imaginima)

Big Oil's weapon to stop climate laws

Lois Parshley - Grist
Close-up of carving on wood, Patrai, Greece (De Agostini via Getty Images)

The alcoholic civilization hypothesis

Troy Farah
Sick little boy suffering from cold (Getty Images/PeopleImages)

Are kids really getting sick more often?

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/MarianVejcik)

The gas stove fracas, explained

Jonathan Levy - The Conversation
Intermittent fasting (Getty Images/Tetiana Kreminska)

The truth about intermittent fasting

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Artificial Intelligence Chatbot concept (Getty Images/Carol Yepes)

Human artists vs. AI systems

Lynne Parker, Casey Greene, Daniel Acuña, Kentaro Toyama, Mark Finlayson - The Conversation
Young boy staring at glasses of red and white wine (Getty Images/1001slide)

When to have "the talk" about alcohol

Lindsay Karp
Assortment of junk foods (Getty Images/carlosgaw)

Why are we addicted to junk food?

Matthew Rozsa
Two prescription bottles with pain pills spilling out of them (Getty Images)

Prescribing controlled drugs over Zoom

Darius Tahir - KFF Health News
Illegal fentanyl is safely handled and contained. (Getty Images/Darwin Brandis)

Fentanyl panic mirrors crack epidemic

Ryan Hampton
Woman Smoking Weed (Getty Images / Mayara Klingner / EyeEm)

On being "California sober"

Troy Farah
Blurred emergency in hospital (Getty Images/vm)

How hospitals exploit volunteer labor

Lauren Sausser - KFF Health News
EMTs rush a patient to the emergency room at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on March 24, 2020, as the number of confirmed Massachusetts cases of coronavirus soars to near 5,000. (Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Too many options in health care

Sam Whitehead - KFF Health News
The TED logo stands illuminated on stage in the Community Theater in Vancouver, Canada. (Lawrence Sumulong/Getty Images)

The cult of expertise comes for Buddhism

Curtis White
People photograph a car sitting in flooded water at an underpass at Webster St. and 34th St. on January 4, 2023 in Oakland, California. (Marlena Sloss for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The chaotic future of California weather

Nicole Karlis
Raindrops On Umbrella (Getty Images / Donat Photography / EyeEm)

Is California's drought over?

Jake Bittle - Grist
(Getty/violinconcertono3)

EPA soot standard could save thousands

Jessie Blaeser - Grist
The Space Needle and downtown Seattle (Getty Images/Adam Schmid)

Washington is capping carbon emissions

Kate Yoder - Grist
This artist’s conception shows a late-stage galaxy merger and its two newly-discovered central black holes. (ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) / M. Weiss, NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Black holes on a collision course

Troy Farah
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