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Jay Bhattacharya and Elon Musk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Meet Elon Musk's favorite new doctor

Matthew Rozsa
Santa Claus and fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The psychedelic history of Christmas

Troy Farah
Hands using mobile app for online dating with profiles on smartphone screens (Getty Images/gmast3r)

Scientists study online dating success

Matthew Rozsa
Medical Cost (Getty Images/Rapeepong Puttakumwong)

Did Medicare Advantage plans overcharge?

Fred Schulte, Holly K. Hacker - KFF Health News
Old man looks at the sunset (Getty Images/EgudinKa)

Optimist? Your health may depend on it

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
Autumn Forest Road (Getty Images/rusm)

First Nations get conservation

Chris Arsenault - Grist
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a rally hosted by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) at Richard Montgomery High School on August 25, 2022 in Rockville, Maryland. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

States press Biden to lower drug prices

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
Baby was sick as Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in kid hospital (Getty Images/graphixchon)

A hospital bed shortage fueled by greed

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

African nations tap into oil wealth

Lylla Younes - Grist
(Getty/Stuart Ritchie)

The toll of opioids in rural America

Aneri Pattani, Rae Ellen Bichell - KFF Health News
Plastic bottles and polystyrene floating in sea (Rosemary Calvert)

San Diego, L.A. ban plastic foam

Joseph Winters - Grist
Futuristic Nuclear Fusion Particles Simulation concept (iStock/Getty Images)

A breakthrough in nuclear fusion

Matthew Rozsa
Carving of a small cat at the archaeological site of Kom Ombo, Egypt | A house cat with a collar (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Cat domestication follows colonization

Troy Farah
Sad cat (Getty Images/LeoCH Studio)

The ugly truth about declawing cats

Matthew Rozsa
Hepatitis C virus (Getty Images/CAVALLINI JAMES/BSIP/Universal Images Group)

Protein discovery could herald vaccine

Lisa Eshun-Wilson, Alba Torrents De La Peña - The Conversation
Medical Bill (Getty Images/everydayplus)

The Medicare Advantage plan scandal

Fred Schulte, Holly K. Hacker - KFF Health News
Big farm tractor tilling dusty Springtime fields (Getty Images/JamesBrey)

Midwest soil eroding faster than ever

John McCracken - Grist
Solar panels and wind turbines (Getty Images/zf L)

A green breakthrough in Louisiana

Emily Pontecorvo, Lylla Younes - Grist
Magic mushrooms and psilocybin molecule (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The debate over synthetic 'shrooms

Troy Farah
(FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

The myth of "green hydrogen"

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Mother Breastfeeding Baby (Getty Images)

People don't mate randomly

Richard Border, Noah Zaitlen - The Conversation
Desert Tortoise (Getty Images/Fuse)

A desert icon faces near-certain doom

Troy Farah
Man pushing in headphone earbud (Getty Images/agrobacter)

Are earbuds wrecking our hearing?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Engraved Wall Street sign, New York, USA (Doug Armand/Getty Images)

Wall Street reneges on climate promises

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
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