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The assassination of President James A. Garfield at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station, Washington D.C., America on July 2, 1881, by Charles Julius Guiteau. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The president who was killed by doctors

Matthew Rozsa
Smoke from Southern California wildfires drifts through the L.A. Basin, obscuring downtown skyscrapers in a view from a closed Griffith Observatory on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020 in Los Angeles, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Calif. kids cope with wildfire trauma

Heidi De Marco - KFF Health News
Friends eating meal together outdoors, raising a toast with drinks (Getty Images/Eugenio Marongiu)

Win friends by... talking more?

Quinn Hirschi - The Conversation
Peaches (Getty Images/lehcim)

Is there cyanide in my peach?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Digitally created space scene with the orbital view on the Earth-like planet and it's moons (Getty Images/Lev Savitskiy)

Two new Earth-like planets discovered

Troy Farah
Gavel and medicine (Getty Images)

Texas judge's medical ruling, explained

Julie Appleby - KFF Health News
A person smokes a Juul e-cigarette (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Juul just lost a big battle

Matthew Rozsa
Medical Billing (Getty Images)

The $18,000 breast biopsy

Lauren Sausser - KFF Health News
Planet Neptune and diamonds (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Galactic forecast: Diamond rain

Troy Farah
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), an HIV preventative drug (Daniel Born/The Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Texas judge rules against PrEP coverage

Eleanor Klibanoff, Karen Brooks Harper - The Texas Tribune
Thwaites Glacier (NASA/JPL)

Sea level rise gets real

Matthew Rozsa
Forest landscape in the vicinity of Labé in March 2008, Guinea-Conakry (François GOUDIER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Another dam(n) extinction

John R. Platt - The Revelator
Rainbow fentanyl — fentanyl pills and powder that come in a variety of bright colors, shapes, and sizes (DEA)

Fear-mongering about fentanyl for kids

Troy Farah
NASA's Artemis I rocket sits on launch pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 1, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Why NASA's Artemis 1 mission matters

Jack Burns - The Conversation
A rat eats on the platform at the Herald Square subway station in New York City (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

The world is full of "outcast rats"

Pamela Appea
(AlexTurton/Getty)

Why most embryos die after conception

Kathryn Kavanagh - The Conversation
Prison cells (Getty Images/Hitoshi Nishimura)

US jails people with mental illnesses

Matthew Rozsa
An elementary school student sits in front of a screen at home, using a laptop to participate in online classes with a teacher. (Annette Riedl/picture alliance via Getty Images)

"We, as a nation, failed our kids"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty/George Clerk)

How "bird tech" is advancing

Tom Langen - The Conversation
Woman Kayaking with her Dog (Getty Images/Bread and Butter Productions)

Dog, cat owners are just like their pets

Lei Jia - The Conversation
Hippopotamus (Getty Images/pjmalsbury)

The true story of the Louisiana hippos

Matthew Rozsa
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)

Why we need more protected areas

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Gravestones in a cemetery (Getty Images/Marc Bruxelle)

US life expectancy in decline

Bob Hennelly
Human brain scan | Laboratory rat (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Are rats the key to an Alzheimer's cure?

Pamela Appea
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