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A Walmart worker shows she tested negative after using one of the new government-issued COVID-19 Antigen Rapid test kits she received to take a self-test while at home on February 8, 2022 in Provo, Utah. The test kits are arriving as COVID positive test results are starting to fall in many states. (George Frey/Getty Images)

What if the next wave is invisible?

Nicole Karlis
International Space Station (NASA via Getty Images)

Ukraine war threatens space exploration

Wendy Whitman Cobb - The Conversation
Sun beams shinning underwater on the tropical coral reef (Getty Images/Tunatura)

Mysterious viruses lurk in our oceans

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/puchan)

The dinosaur that died on extinction day

Nicole Karlis
Fingers Crossed (Getty Images/Marlene Ford)

When trauma makes you not yourself

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A man walks amid debris in front of a residential apartment complex that was heavily damaged by a Russian attack on March 18, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Russian forces remain on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, but their advance has stalled in recent days, even while Russian strikes - and pieces of intercepted missiles - have hit residential areas in the north of Kyiv. An estimated half of Kyiv's population has fled to other parts of the country, or abroad, since Russia invaded on February 24. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Ukrainians' psychological wounds

Arash Javanbakht - The Conversation
A bumblebee collects pollen from a rhododendron flower in a garden outside Moscow on June 1, 2021. (YURI KADOBNOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Getting high on Turkish "mad honey"

Niko Vorobyov
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, 1963 (Imagno/Getty Images)

The USSR's golden age of science

Matthew Rozsa
U.S. President Joe Biden (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

$3 billion to retrofit low-income homes

Julia Kane - Grist
(Getty Images)

European renaissance for nuclear energy?

Joseph Winters - Grist
Nervous young woman using smartphone (Getty Images/Jamie Grill)

Why are teens self-diagnosing on TikTok?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C. | A woman holding up a QAnon sign at a Trump rally (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Where Cawthorn and New Agers converge

Nicole Karlis
Medical Bill (Getty Images/everydayplus)

Millions in US may lose health insurance

Elisabeth Rosenthal - KFF Health News
Police take protestors out during an action of Scientist Rebellion to denounce the climate situation on April 06, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. Scientists and researchers throw fake blood at the Congress of Deputies building, one of many protests planned across the globe between April 4 to 9,2022 by the international movement Scientist Rebellion. (Aldara Zarraoa/Getty Images)

Scientists arrested at climate protests

Eric Schank
MADRID, SPAIN - 2022/04/06: Activists from the International Collective Scientists Rebellion and Extinction Rebellion are arrested after filling the facade of the Congress of Deputies with biodegradable fake blood against the climate crisis. ((Photo by Fer Capdepon Arroyo/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images))

Scientists' civil disobedience campaign

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Electric vehicles are displayed before a news conference with White House Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about the American Jobs Plan and to highlight electric vehicles at Union Station near Capitol Hill on April 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Saving lives with zero-emission cars

Julia Kane - Grist
Solitude and depression from social distancing (Nuthawut Somsuk/ iStock / Getty Images Plus)

COVID's social legacy: Health anxiety

Matthew Rozsa
The Pentagon (Getty Images/Kiyoshi Tanno)

Pentagon declassifies bizarre UFO docs

Matthew Rozsa
A biohazard symbol on the entrance door of the microbiology laboratory (Getty Images/zmeel)

Do IBCs benefit biomedical research?

Michael Schulson - Undark
Noam Chomsky (Brill/ullstein bild/Getty Images)

Chomsky: Humanity at the tipping point

Matthew Rozsa
Desert with storm clouds (Getty Images/John M Lund Photography Inc)

The mad quest to control the weather

Matthew Rozsa
Man sneezing with spray of water droplet full of virus or microbes. He wears his face mask inappropriately on one ear. (Getty Images/Marc Dufresne)

Deliberately infected for science

Nicole Karlis
(James Ransom / Food52)

A spring care guide for your houseplants

Kristin Guy - Food52
Tired man sitting at his computer (Getty Images/Eugenio Marongiu)

Remote work could benefit night owls

Krishna Sharma - KFF Health News
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