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Beth Barham of Corpus Christi looks over a life-size cardboard cutout of Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh placed on a hill near the Branch Davidian cult compound in Waco on April 16, 1993 as the armed stand-off between the religious cult and federal agents continued. (BOB DAEMMRICH/AFP via Getty Images)

How to rescue a cult victim

Casey Kleczek
Coney Island: Crowd on the beach during the heat wave in July 1936 (ullstein bild/Getty Images)

The worst heat wave in US history

Matthew Rozsa
Exhaust air rises from the chimneys of the Moorburg coal-fired power plant into the sky. (Christian Charisius/picture alliance via Getty Images)

SCOTUS can't save coal power

Rebecca J. Davis - The Conversation
Dead fish on the dry lake bed of Little Washoe Lake on July 15, 2021 in Washoe City, Nevada. According to the Nevada Department of Wildlife, the lake dried up because of prolonged drought. Water levels were also adversely affected by a 2017 storm that washed out a diversion on Brown creek. (David Calvert/Getty Images)

The Great Salt Lake's looming die-off

Eric Schank
Supporters of President Donald Trump hold up their phones with messages referring to the QAnon conspiracy theory at a campaign rally at Las Vegas Convention Center on February 21, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Is stress making us believe in QAnon?

Nicole Karlis
A general view of the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, which has been linked to cases of Coronavirus, on January 17, 2020 in Wuhan, China. (Getty Images/Stringer)

COVID's wet market origins, explained

Matthew Rozsa
Bottles of Monsanto's Roundup are seen for sale June 19, 2018 at a retail store in Glendale, California. ((ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images))

Cancer-linked chemical is "everywhere"

Evelyn Nieves - Capital & Main
Giant sequoia redwood tree in Tuolumne Grove of Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Valley, California, 2016. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

US announces plan to save giant sequoias

Julia Kane - Grist
U.S. President Joe Biden covers his mouth as he coughs while remotely attending a meeting on the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Act, in the South Court Auditorium at the White House on July 25, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Don't pull a Biden and work while sick

Nicole Karlis
Silhouette Depress Woman Sitting And Hold Smartphone (Getty Images / Krisda Ponchaipulltawee / EyeEm)

Is depression your fault, or society's?

Matthew Rozsa, Keith A. Spencer
Enteroviruses, a group of RNA-viruses of the Picornaviridae family including Echo-viruses, Coxsackie-viruses, Rhino-viruses, Polio-virus and other (Getty Images/Dr_Microbe)

How polio crept back into the U.S.

Robin Fields - ProPublica
Happy friend group chatting laughing drinking coffee in cafe (Getty Images)

How to feel more connected to others

Dave Smallen - The Conversation
Unity and successful teamwork (Getty Images/whyframestudio)

Americans are becoming more cooperative

Eric Schank
Heatwave hot sun (Getty Images/chuchart duangdaw)

Why hot days increase your risk of death

Nicole Karlis
Pro-life activists protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court as they wait for the court to hand down its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Monday morning, June 13, 2022 (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"Sterilization showers" proliferating

Aaron Bolton, Ellis Juhlin - KFF Health News
Several young people running on treadmill in gym wearing face mask (Getty Images)

Why you may want to double that workout

Matthew Rozsa
Photo of hands holding tissue with blood (Cunaplus_M.Faba)

How dangerous is human blood?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere surrounding a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like star on July 12, 2022 in space. The observation, which reveals the presence of specific gas molecules based on tiny decreases in the brightness of precise colors of light, is the most detailed of its kind to date, demonstrating Webb's unprecedented ability to analyze atmospheres hundreds of light-years away. (NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)

How Webb telescope will search for E.T.

Chris Impey, Daniel Apai - The Conversation
Small siblings covering their ears while refusing to listen their parents arguing in dining room (Getty Images/skynesher)

Going childfree to stop the abuse cycle

Christina Wyman
Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924) the 28th President of the United States of America | Sharks (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Woodrow Wilson's war on sharks

Matthew Rozsa
Arctic polar bear and cubs in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Getty/sarkophoto)

Polar bears are eating human garbage

Thomas Scott Smith - The Conversation
President Joe Biden traveled to Somerset, MA to deliver remarks on tackling the climate crisis and seizing the opportunity of a clean energy future to create jobs and lower costs for families. (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Biden holds off on climate emergency

Daniel Farber - The Conversation
A couple taking a selfie with their dogs (Getty Images/Thanasis Zovoilis)

The curious rise of "dog parent–shaming"

Nicole Karlis
Monkeypox virus (Getty Images/kontekbrothers)

Monkeypox declared global emergency

Kelly McClure
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