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Waste is found dumped at a marsh near the mouth of Neshaminy Creek to the Delaware river in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on February 6, 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Nonstick chemicals causing hypertension

Matthew Rozsa
Coronavirus and blood cells (Getty Images)

Doctors "all over the map" on long COVID

Eric Schank
View of the downtown Phoenix, Arizona city skyline as seen from South Mountain Park (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Lessons from the hottest city in America

Julia Kane - Grist
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is nestled within a natural basin in China's remote and mountainous southwestern Guizhou province. (Getty Images/Jeff Dai/Stocktrek Images)

China's mysterious alien radio signal

Nicole Karlis
Flooding is seen on June 14, 2022 in Livingston, Montana. The Yellowstone River hit has a historic high flow from rain and snow melt from the mountains in and around Yellowstone National Park. (William Campbell/Getty Images)

Yellowstone floods are a harbinger

Matthew Rozsa
Bird Flu (Getty Images/Peter Garrard Beck)

Preventing bird flu

Erica Cirino - The Revelator
Mother making a phone call while aiding to her sick young son at home (Getty Images/Dean Mitchell)

Long COVID often overlooked in children

Eric Schank
Justin Bieber performs onstage during the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 03, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Rich Fury/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

Misinfo swirls around Bieber's condition

Nicole Karlis
Health care staff in a remote clinic struggle to provide pandemic resources for their patients. (Kata Karath for Undark)

The rural Covid response in Ecuador

Kata Karath - Undark
Doctor uses stethoscope to listen to baby (Getty Images/Svetlana Repnitskaya)

Dangers of getting COVID while pregnant

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

"Curing" cancer is an outdated idea

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Body System concept (Getty Images/zf L)

Your immune system runs on a clock

Matthew Rozsa
High school student asleep in class (Getty Images/Image Source)

The teen sleep crisis

Gail Cornwall
A general view of Novavax vaccine vials as the Dutch Health Service Organization starts with the Novavax vaccination program on March 21, 2022 in The Hague, Netherlands. (Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images)

The hard road for the Novavax vaccine

Arthur Allen, Sarah Jane Tribble - KFF Health News
Empty prison hallway (Getty Images)

Waiting in jail for mental health care

Andy Miller, Rebecca Grapevine - KFF Health News
Plastic bottles and polystyrene floating in sea (Rosemary Calvert)

Superworms can eat styrofoam

Matthew Rozsa
An active shooter drill is performed by the Livingston Police Department, the Park County Sheriff's Office, and Livingston Fire Department EMS at Park High School on April 27, 2018 in Livingston, Montana. (William Campbell/Corbis via Getty Images)

How lockdown drills affect kids

Nicole Karlis
Many airplanes are in line on the runway waiting for take off (Getty Images/Jingying Zhao)

Shannon Osaka
UFO in flight above urban park (Getty Images/ Ray Massey)

NASA is putting together a UFO team

Matthew Rozsa
Abortion rights demonstrators gather near the Washington Monument during a nationwide rally in support of abortion rights in Washington, D.C., US, on May 14, 2022. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Majority support abortion staying legal

Tarah Williams - The Conversation
Blue and Red Population concept (Getty Images/Constantine Johnny)

Mortality gap between red, blue counties

Eric Schank
Man clutching his chest from acute pain (Getty Images/Witthaya Prasongsin)

Yes, you can die of a "broken heart"

Nicole Karlis
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Republicans’ empty new climate strategy

Shannon Osaka - Grist
Perseverance rover on Mars (Getty Images/dima_zel/iStock)

Mars rover adopts a pet rock by accident

Nicole Karlis
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