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3D render of a man with strong pain in head (Getty Images/peterschreiber.media)

Unlocking the mysteries of pain

Emily Cataneo - Undark
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (Getty Images)

Secrets to passing climate legislation

Kate Yoder - Grist
(Getty/AlexStar)

Nurse in drug error case sentenced

Brett Kelman - KFF Health News
Man with a headache, under stress (Getty Images/Colin Hawkins)

This is why you have a headache

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Cargo ships anchor on the Rhine near Bonn harbour. Navigation on the Rhine in Cologne has been suspended due to the high water. (Marius Becker/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Climate change squeezes the supply chain

Matthew Rozsa
A field of stag-horn coral bleached white on the Great Barrier Reef (Getty Images/Brett Monroe Garner)

There is hope for coral reefs

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
In this handout photo provided by NASA, This is the first image of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. (NASA Via Getty Images)

First image of our galaxy's black hole

Matthew Rozsa
Pack of Gray Wolves (Getty Images)

Tara Lohan
Protesters from a younger generation hold up pro-life placards as thousands of pro-life supporters come together for the annual March for life UK. They are calling for an end to abortion as they believe life starts at conception. The march follows a ban on abortion for most women in Texas, USA at the beginning of September. (Martin Pope/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Ripple effects of abortion restrictions

Charlotte Huff - KFF Health News
Illustration based on a transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of a SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (red) (Getty Images/JUAN GAERTNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

COVID variant overtakes its predecessors

Eric Schank
Pregnant woman in a hospital bed holding a blanket, feeling abdominal pain, risk of miscarriage (Getty Images/Motortion)

The problem with abortion ban exceptions

Nicole Karlis
A protest sign stands in front of an evacuated and boarded up house in the Love Canal neighborhood in Niagara Falls. The area was abandoned after it was learned that tons of toxic waste were dumped in the canal beside the houses. (Getty Images/Bettmann Contributor)

Love Canal disaster gets book treatment

Peter Andrey Smith - Undark
A street sweeper walks on a sidewalk in New Delhi on February 21, 2022. (SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Digital snooping on sanitation workers

Qadri Inzamam, Haziq Qadri - Undark
Electronic components including circuit boards sit in a pile ahead of recycling at Aurubis AG on February 7, 2014 in Luenen, Germany. (Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images)

Chemists want to mine e-waste for metals

Eric Schank
Sir David Attenborough holding an ammonite in his left hand looking to camera with VisFx Pterosaur and t. Rex behind him, with asteroid streaking through the sky. (Photo courtesy of BBC Studios)

A play-by-play of the day the dinos died

Nicole Karlis
Paradise Island in the Bahamas (Getty Images / Joannis S Duran / Freelance Photographer)

"Blue carbon" credits arrive in Bahamas

Diana Kruzman - Undark
At a half way house for recovering addicts, supervisors who are in recovery themselves use a fentanyl strip to test for drugs in the urine of a fellow resident on March 22, 2019. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Decriminalizing fentanyl testing strips

Andy Miller - KFF Health News
Black Hole (Getty Images)

A black hole suddenly flips over

Eric Schank
In vitro fertilization process close up (Getty Images/Antonio Marquez lanza)

Post-Roe, IVF treatment may be impeded

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/MarkMalleson)

What killer whales need from humans

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Woman being judged by different people pointing fingers at her (Getty Images/Tanaban chuenchay)

Privilege-shaming is backfiring

Matthew Rozsa
Brain fractured into sections (Getty Images/Hiroshi Watanabe)

When does the "self" cease to exist?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A person is running away from online harassment (Getty Images/woocat)

Trolling takes a toll on science

Lisa Palmer, Silvio Waisbord - Undark
Don't Care That The World Is Burning (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

What, me worry about climate?

Justin Gregg
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