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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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