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USA, California, Los Angeles, traffic on the freeway (Getty Images)

The rising onslaught of noise

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
Life reconstruction of the 120-million-year-old bird Cratonavis zhui (Zhao Chuang/Chinese Academy of Sciences)

The dinosaur–bird missing link fossil

Troy Farah
The waiting room at Alamo Womens Reproductive Services is empty as just an hour prior the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade shutting down abortion services at Alamo Womens Reproductive Services on June 24, 2022 in San Antonio, Texas. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

What happens when you restrict abortion

Nicole Karlis
Heatwave hot sun (Getty Images/chuchart duangdaw)

Europe starts 2023 with a heat wave

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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What does the EPA count as 'renewable?'

John McCracken - Grist
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The GOP war on green investing

Blanca Begert - Grist
Tumbleweed rolls across a dried out landscape in central California's Kern County as trucks head south toward the Grapevine to begin the climb over the Tejon Pass leading into Southern California, on February 3, 2014. The United States government announced on February 5 a new system of regional hubs to tackle the effects of climate change as the country's southwest battles a historic drought. In January, California declared a state of emergency due to what could be the worst drought in a century for the state, and which has prompted fears of lost harvests and devastating forest fires. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Is California's drought over?

Jake Bittle - Grist
People sing slogans while gathering on a street in Shanghai on November 27, 2022, where protests against China's zero-Covid policy took place the night before following a deadly fire in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region. (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

China and COVID-19: A lesson in extremes

Matthew Rozsa
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Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills (Bryan Bennett/Getty Images)

What happened to Damar Hamlin?

Matthew Rozsa
Coronavirus mutations, concept (Getty images/VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

How variant XBB.1.5 took over the U.S.

Troy Farah
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When fishing boats go "dark"

Heather Welch - The Conversation
Wind turbine reflected in solar panels (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

War accelerating clean energy adoption

Rachel Kyte - The Conversation
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A man shovels snow in near whiteout conditions during a noreaster in Marshfield, Massachusetts, on January 29, 2022. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

How Earth’s tilt affects January

Deanna Hence - The Conversation
Female medical professional in Personal Protective Equipment (Getty Images)

Weighing risks of a major surgery

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
Medical Bill (Getty Images/everydayplus)

New tools to predict health care costs

Julie Appleby - KFF Health News
Diabetic girl injecting insulin in her stomach (Getty Images/dmphoto)

Youth diabetes predicted to rise sharply

Matthew Rozsa, Troy Farah
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How toilets spew invisible aerosols

John Crimaldi - The Conversation
Futuristic Nuclear Fusion Particles Simulation concept (iStock/Getty Images)

Fusion ignition explained

Carolyn Kuranz - The Conversation
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek | Sperm under a microscope (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The regretful discoverer of sperm

Matthew Rozsa
Artificial Intelligence Chatbot concept (Getty Images/Carol Yepes)

Meet the AI that thinks it can write

Gary N. Smith
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Why chickenpox can increase stroke risk

Andrew Bubak - The Conversation
United States Senator and nominee for president, Barry Goldwater (1909 - 1998) speaking at an election rally in Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA, 28th October 1964. (William Lovelace/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Is the Goldwater Rule outdated?

Matthew Rozsa
Girl drawing smiley face on to a wall (Getty Images/Flashpop)

The case for small resolutions

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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A gamma-ray burst challenges physics

Eleonora Troja, Simone Dichiara - The Conversation
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