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Raccoon (Getty Images / Mykel Leddel / EyeEm)

Experts: Beware the shy raccoons

Mary Elizabeth Williams
GREAT YARMOUTH, ENGLAND - JULY 19: The sun starts to rise behind Britain's largest offshore wind farm off the Great Yarmouth coastline on July 19, 2006 in Norfolk, England. The 30 turbines cost GBP75million and can generate enough power for 41,000 homes are seen by supporters as a clean and green way to generate electricity and a way of cutting down on harmful green house gas emmissions. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Offshore wind best deal for taxpayers

Jessie Blaeser - Grist
Child frustrated reading a book (Getty Images/LeManna)

In defense of reading differently

Matthew Rozsa
A little boy in front of blackboard with question marks (Getty Images/baona)

A subtle cause of childhood trauma

Matthew Rozsa
Woman Filing Medical Records (Getty Images/Sean Justice)

How prejudice permeates health records

Darius Tahir - KFF Health News
Shop selling coffins and funeral wreaths (Getty Images/urbazon)

Business booms in the death industry

Markian Hawryluk - KFF Health News
Woman sitting on the couch with her dog (Getty Images/Justin Paget)

Yes, dogs can smell your stress

Matthew Rozsa
X (Twitter) and Tesla CEO Elon Musk (PATRICK PLEUL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Elon Musk debuts humanoid robot

Kelly McClure
Life reconstruction of Fanjingshania renovata (FU Boyuan and FU Baozhong)

Fish fossils rewrite the history of life

Troy Farah
Commuters make their way through a flooded street during monsoon rainfall in Hyderabad on July 24, 2022. (AKRAM SHAHID/AFP via Getty Images)

33 million displaced by floods

ZOHA TUNIO - Undark
Officials from Para State, northern Brazil, inspect a deforested area in the Amazon rain forest during surveillance in the municipality of Pacaja, 620 km from the capital Belem, on September 22, 2021. (EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images)

Blanca Begert
Close up of a man smelling marijuana plant (Getty Images/MStudioImages)

Weed doesn’t make you lazy: study

Troy Farah
Bacteria Lactobacillus in human intestine (Getty Images/nopparit)

Humans evolved with their microbiomes

Taichi A. Suzuki, Ruth Ley - The Conversation
Brain Shaped Bonsai Tree (Getty Images/Viaframe)

The new science on plant consciousness

Matthew Rozsa
Aaron Rodgers #12 of the Green Bay Packers (Dylan Buell/Getty Images)

Rodgers fumbles science on psychedelics

Troy Farah
Glossy glass balls showing world under microscope (Getty Images/OsakaWayne Studios)

The mysterious microplastics in our soil

Martin Henseler - The Conversation
A man walks down a flooded street in the Juana Matos neighborhood of Catano, Puerto Rico, on September 19, 2022, after the passage of Hurricane Fiona. (AFP via Getty Images)

Hurricane Ian is proof of climate change

Matthew Rozsa
In this NOAA handout image taken by the GOES satellite at 16:56 UTC: shows Hurricane Ian as it moves toward western Cuba on September 26, 2022 in the Caribbean Sea. (Photo by NOAA via Getty Images)

How climate change supercharged Ian

Matthew Rozsa
This illustration depicts NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben)

NASA spacecraft collides with asteroid

Troy Farah
Women's tampon with blue on the end (Getty Images/Петр Ткаченко)

Women don't bleed — or squirt — blue

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Teenage boy sleeping in class (Getty Images/Westend61)

School, and sleep deprivation, is back

Horacio De La Iglesia - The Conversation
Empty xylazine bottle found on the streets of Philadelphia (Christopher Moraff / Narcomedia)

"Tranq dope" spreads to more cities

Troy Farah
A dog trainer giving a hand command to Black Labrador dog (Getty Images/ Mint Images)

Why experts are re-thinking dog training

Ula Chrobak - Undark
A nurse places a blanket over a patient that had just been admitted to the emergency room at Regional Medical Center on May 21, 2020 in San Jose, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

How to prevent another pandemic

John Thwaites, Liam Smith, Margaret Hellard - The Conversation
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