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Used hypodermic needles are seen in a bin at the India Street Public Health Center Needle Exchange in Portland, Maine. (Joel Page/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

Needle exchanges no longer a city thing

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez - KFF Health News
A close-up of the turkey vulture seen in a park in central New Jersey. (Getty Images/andykazie)

Don't touch that vulture

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Sunny sky (Getty Images/Roman Studio)

With more sizzling summers, Colorado changes how heat advisories are issued

Markian Hawryluk - KFF Health News
Dr Anthony Byrne, Consultant Respiratory Physician and Lung Specialist, consults with a COVID-19 positive patient inside 'the bubble' at St Vincent's Hospital on December 2, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. (Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

Long COVID has put 4 million out of work

Matthew Rozsa
Electric vehicles are displayed before a news conference with White House Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about the American Jobs Plan and to highlight electric vehicles at Union Station near Capitol Hill on April 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

EV boom could bring lithium mines to NC

Blanca Begert - Grist
UFOs (Getty Images/KTSDesign/SCIENCEPHOTOLIBRARY)

The race to unearth an alien meteorite

Matthew Rozsa
Aaron Rodgers and Joe Rogan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Aaron Rodgers goes anti-vax on "Rogan"

Matthew Rozsa
Doctor Walking In Hospital Corridor (Getty Images / Bernard Van Berg / EyeEm)

Hospitals cutting services as costs rise

Katheryn Houghton - KFF Health News
Water levels are at a historic low at Lake Powell on April 5, 2022 in Page, Arizona. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

As Lake Powell goes, so goes the West

Matthew Rozsa
Teenage boy sleeping in the library (Getty Images/Mayur Kakade)

Climate change makes it too hot to think

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Vampire bats cuddling at Manu National Park, Peru (Getty Images/Westend61)

When bats go from strangers to friends

Siddhant Pusdekar
Blurred emergency in hospital (Getty Images/vm)

When an ER doctor becomes an ER patient

Jay Baruch
Red Evil Artificial Intelligence, concept (Getty Images/tampatra)

The quest to create a "human-level" AI

Otto Barten
Official portrait of Abraham Lincoln, by George PA Healy (GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)

Abe Lincoln: Master inventor

Matthew Rozsa
A doctor with the Saxony-Anhalt Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, takes a swab from a patient at the fever outpatient clinic in Halle/Saale. (Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

The next pandemic is of long COVID

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
Paint spreads at a protest on the steps of City Hall to denounce the U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended federal abortion rights protections on July 6, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Consequences of being denied abortion

Diana Greene Foster
3D rendered image, enhanced scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of cancer cells. (Getty Images/koto_feja)

Rural struggle for cancer medicine

Debby Waldman - KFF Health News
A man carries a handgun emblazoned with the Confederate battle flag during an unveiling of a monument to unknown Confederate dead at Confederate Veterans Memorial Park, which is owned privately, in Brantley, Ala., Aug. 27, 2017. (Kevin D. Liles/For the Washington Post/Getty Images)

Gun prevalence rooted in old divisions

Matthew Rozsa
Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom McClintock speaks to reporters with his wife Lori after participating in a denate at California State University, Sacramento September 24, 2003 in Sacramento, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

An "herbal remedy" results in death

Samantha Young - KFF Health News
Happy Welsh Corgi Pembroke dog sitting in yellow dandelions field (Getty Images/BONDART)

Dog is love: Dogs can cry tears of joy

Matthew Rozsa
Stack Of Books On Table In Library (Getty Images/Rachan Panya/EyeEm)

Librarians confront a new workplace

Rachel Scheier - KFF Health News
Dr. Anthony Fauci (Al Drago - Pool/Getty Images)

How will Fauci be remembered by history?

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/IP Galanternik D.U.)

Engineers on how to conserve A/C energy

Aisling Pigott, Jennifer Scheib, Kyri Baker - The Conversation
Illustration of a tyrannosaurus as an asteroid strikes the Earth. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The dinosaur-killing asteroid had a twin

Matthew Rozsa
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