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Variation of cooking oils (Getty Images/peter bocklandt)

Why the internet suddenly hates seed oil

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (Getty Images)

Crucial climate goal out of reach

Shannon Osaka - Grist
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol's House Chamber March 01, 2022 in Washington, DC. During his first State of the Union address Biden spoke on his administration's efforts to lead a global response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, work to curb inflation and to bring the country out of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Biden boosts rural health care

Katheryn Houghton - KFF Health News
Thermal images of Neptune taken between 2006 and 2020. (ESO/M. Roman, NAOJ/Subaru/COMICS)

Neptune's seasons are broken

Nicole Karlis
Two adult female are having disagreements with upbringing kid (Getty Images/JackF)

Millennial parents reject Boomer wisdom

Nicole Karlis
Houston Fire Department paramedics transport a woman with breathing difficulties to a hospital on September 14, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Texas' Harris County continues to see large number of Covid-19 hospitalizations due to the Delta variant surge in the state. (John Moore/Getty Images)

COVID worsened the "Paramedic Paradox"

Katheryn Houghton - KFF Health News
Sad woman sitting in the crowd (Getty Images/studiostockart)

How shame became cultural currency

Keith A. Spencer
Easter eggs in the decorative nest (Getty Images/Vikusha)

What makes bird eggs so colorful

Matthew Rozsa
Gasoline prices are displayed at a gas station on April 12, 2022 in San Mateo County, California. (Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images))

High gas costs won't stop climate change

Shannon Osaka - Grist
Mature woman lying in bed and looking at her laptop (Getty Images/Riska)

Why I started watching porn at 50

Rebecca Morrison
Planet Pluto illustration incorporating NASA New Horizons terrain imagery (Getty Images/HYPERSPHERE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The forgotten "planets" of our sun

Matthew Rozsa
A visual representation of a Bitcoin cryptocurrency as a gold coin on a computer keyboard. (Getty Images)

Psychopaths like crypto

Di Wang, Brett Martin, Jun Yao - The Conversation
Woman sleeping in bed in the morning (Getty Images/Kilito Chan)

Maybe you don't need more sleep

Mary Elizabeth Williams
The abortion drug Mifepristone (Phil Walter/Getty Images)

New state laws restrict abortion pills

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
Natural gas flame on a stove (Robert Clare/Getty Images)

Methane emissions break records

Kate Yoder - Grist
Electronic cigarettes and pods by Juul, the nation's largest maker of vaping products, are offered for sale at the Smoke Depot on September 13, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ordered e-cigarette product makers to devise a plan to keep their devices away from minors, declaring use by teens has reached an "epidemic proportion". (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

When mice vape, flavor matters

Eric Schank
A part of complex Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is seen underground during the Open Days at the CERN particle physics research facility on September 14, 2019 in Meyrin, Switzerland. The 27km-long Large Hadron Collider is currently shut down for maintenance, which has created an opportunity to offer access to the public. (Ronald Patrick/Getty Images)

The particle that could break physics

Nicole Karlis, Keith A. Spencer
Eclipse, the private luxury yacht of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, anchors at Cruise Port in Marmaris district of Mugla, Turkiye on March 22, 2022. The 163-meter-long, 23 meters wide and 6 floors Eclipse, world's second-largest private yacht, attracts the attention of the people walking in the harbor. (Sabri Kesen/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Climate case for seizing superyachts

Eve Andrews - Grist
A bright comet with large dust and gas trails (Getty Images/solarseven)

The most massive comet ever found

Matthew Rozsa
Biochemist in hazmat suit holding petri dish with biomaterial (Getty Images/Harbucks)

Zika virus is quick to mutate

Matthew Rozsa
Omphalotus nidiformis, or ghost fungus (Getty Images/Louise Docker Sydney Australia)

Are mushrooms talking to each other?

Eric Schank
A mask with the word XE mutated virus written on it in Yichang, Hubei province, April 2, 2022. (Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

What we know about COVID-19 variant XE

Nicole Karlis
A Six Nation police officer uses a ground-penetrating radar machine on the grounds of the former Mohawk Institute Residential School, in Brantford, Canada, November 9, 2021, as the search for remains begins. - A search began Tuesday for more unmarked graves of students at one of Canada's oldest and longest-running former indigenous residential schools, near Toronto. (COLE BURSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

Radar tracking indigenous grave sites

Diane Peters - Undark
Orangutans (Getty Images/Photo by James Keith)

Orangutans have their own "dialects"

Eric Schank
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