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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
A Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) worker fumigates an area to prevent mosquitos from breeding in New Delhi. (PRAKASH SINGH/AFP via Getty Images)

Why mosquitoes are taking over Delhi

Monika Mondal - Undark
Protein folding, 3D illustration (Getty Images/ CHRISTOPH BURGSTEDT/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

No, AI won't change Big Pharma

Jeffrey Lee Funk, Gary N. Smith
Inventor Philo T. Farnsworth with his invention, the first electronic television (Getty Images/Bettmann)

TV's inventor hated TV — until he didn't

Matthew Rozsa
This artist’s impression shows the planet orbiting the Sun-like star HD 85512 in the southern constellation of Vela (The Sail). This planet is one of sixteen super-Earths discovered by the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory. This planet is about 3.6 times as massive as the Earth and lies at the edge of the habitable zone around the star, where liquid water, and perhaps even life, could potentially exist. (ESO/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger)

Super-Earths: Larger and more habitable

Chris Impey - The Conversation
A homeless man sleeps under an American Flag blanket on a park bench. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Capitalism is bad for your health: study

Matthew Rozsa
Fractals of Romanesco broccoli and fern leaves (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why are there patterns in nature?

Maxim Lavrentovich - The Conversation
Conceptual image of coronavirus inside a test tube (Getty Images/Erlon Silva - TRI Digital)

BF.7: The next major COVID strain?

Troy Farah
Abortion rights activists react to the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Abortion bans won't stop abortion: study

Lauren Ralph - The Conversation
A road guard removes weeds from the edge of a cycle path using a hot foam machine. (Thomas Frey/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Hot foam is the cool new herbicide

Troy Farah
A flooded street is seen after the passage of hurricane Fiona in Salinas, Puerto Rico, on September 19, 2022. (JOSE RODRIGUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change supercharging hurricanes

Matthew Rozsa
Scanning electron micrograph of HIV particles infecting a human H9 T cell (Getty Images)

Viruses have a mind of their own

Ivan Erill - The Conversation
(Getty/KyleNelson)

How ants defy gravity

Deby Cassill - The Conversation
Water on a blue background (Getty Images/Jose A. Bernat Bacete)

The science of squirting

Troy Farah
Presidents Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Richard Nixon, and Lyndon B. Johnson (Getty Images/Salon)

Narcissistic presidents wage longer wars

Matthew Rozsa
Diverse group of happy children getting on school bus (Getty Images/FatCamera)

What parents need to know about polio

Céline Gounder - KFF Health News
Spotted Lanternfly (Getty Images)

The invasive species of America

Matthew Rozsa
MRSA super bug colonies on blood agar plate. (Getty Images/Rodolfo Parulan Jr)

The tide turns against superbugs

Troy Farah
Traffic moves along in the smog (Yogendra Kumar/Hindustan Times/Getty Images)

Are steam-powered cars sustainable?

Brian Stewart, Gary W. Yohe - The Conversation
Pregnant woman in a hospital bed holding a blanket, feeling abdominal pain, risk of miscarriage (Getty Images/Motortion)

Abortion bans affect cancer treatment

Charlotte Huff - KFF Health News
Young woman sitting on sofa with face beauty mask in front of laptop and doing yoga or meditation (Getty Images/triocean)

How did self-care become our religion?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Atlantic Salmons in a river (Getty Images)

Salmon farming’s dirty business

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Gavin Newsom speaks at a Homekey site to announce the latest round of awards for homeless housing projects across the state on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Is a California homeless law "coercive"?

Troy Farah
View of demonstrators in wheelchairs in Central Park, many with signs that read 'Stop Reaganism, Not Social Services (and) Jobs' and an another in support of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibited discrimination against people disabilities and which was, at the time, under threat from the Reagan administration, in New York, New York, July 12, 1982 (Leif Skoogfors/Getty Images)

The fight for disability rights

Matthew Rozsa
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