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A man wearing a protective face mask walks past an illustration of a virus outside Oldham Regional Science Centre on November 24, 2020 in Oldham, United Kingdom. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

What COVID-19 will look like in 2100

Nicole Karlis
(Suphattra Phonsen / EyeEm / Getty)

How to care for a bonsai tree

Camryn Rabideau - Food52
Iceberg melting in Disko Bay in Greenland (Getty Images/Paul Souders)

Arctic greening won’t save the climate

Donatella Zona - The Conversation
A nurse places a blanket over a patient that had just been admitted to the emergency room at Regional Medical Center on May 21, 2020 in San Jose, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

COVID deaths 2X higher in poorest areas

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Smog over Los Angeles (Getty Images/Robert Landau)

Can fiction save the world?

Mark Johnson - Undark
This is an artist's illustration of a massive new exoplanet called AB Aurigae b, confirmed to be forming via new and archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Subaru Telescope. AB Aurigae b is estimated to be about nine times more massive than Jupiter and orbits its host star over two times farther than Pluto is from our Sun. (NASA / ESA / Joseph Olmsted (STScI))

Hubble spots a "weird" Jupiter

Nicole Karlis
View of redwood trees from the forest floor (Getty Images/James Yu)

Does planting trees help the climate?

Kate Yoder - Grist
Upset Man Standing Against Wall (Getty images/Simon Josefsson/EyeEm)

Is grieving too long a disorder?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A captured fisher is released after undergoing sedation and physical examination, a part of the Hoopa Valley Tribe’s longstanding efforts to monitor the culturally important species. (Elizabeth Miller / Undark)

The quest to monitor a rare carnivore

Elizabeth Miller - Undark
Students at the Norfolk County Agricultural High School participated in a Gay Student Alliance protest/rally in Walpole, MA on March 11, 2022. The event was held in conjunction with the school administration to support a nationwide student protest over anti-LGBT government education plans in Florida and Texas. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

How "don't say gay" harms LGBTQ youth

Nicole Karlis
A scientist in front of a blackboard filled with formulas and equations (Getty Images/nicolas_)

Academia is failing future scientists

Paul M. Sutter - Undark
Pumpjack at oil industry against cloudy sky during sunset in North Dakota, USA (Getty Images)

SEC requires public emissions disclosure

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) attends a press conference with fellow Republican Senators about the Senate Democrats at the U.S. Capitol on September 29, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Republican's accused the Democrats of failing to pass legislation to solve government spending and security issues. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Why Big Pharma loves Tim Scott

Rachana Pradhan, Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
A bumblebee, chimpanzee and humpback whale (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Do animals have social lives?

Matthew Rozsa
Anti-abortion and pro-choice demonstrators wave their signs outside the United States Supreme Court Building during the former group's annual March for Life, Washington DC, January 22, 1989. Among the visible signs are 'Equal Rights Begin in the Womb,' 'Life Begins at Conception,' and, on the other side of the issue, 'Keep Abortion Legal.' (Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why no one can define when "life" begins

Nathan Nobis
Pro-life demonstrators protest outside of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on November 1, 2021. The Supreme Court is set to hear challenges to Texas' restrictive abortion laws. - The conservative-majority US Supreme Court hears challenges on Monday to the most restrictive law passed since abortion was made a constitutional right nearly 50 years ago -- a Texas bill that bans a woman from terminating a pregnancy after six weeks. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Red states push strident abortion bans

Julie Rovner - KFF Health News
Coronavirus COVID-19 impact in the States (Getty Images)

The red state-blue state COVID rift

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/JamesBrey)

Replacing Russian oil with ethanol

Diana Kruzman - Grist
Firefighters battle the NCAR Fire on March 26, 2022 in Boulder, Colorado. The wildfire, which has forced almost 20,000 people to evacuate their homes, started just a few miles away from where the Marshall Fire destroyed more than 1,000 homes in December. (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

Colorado wildfire burns through the snow

Eric Schank
Female doctor with clipboard isolated with blue plastic drapes (Getty Images/golubovy)

A nurse's honest mistake ends in prison

Nicole Karlis
Joe Rogan (Dylan Buell/Getty Images)

Rogan's favorite Covid drug doesn't work

Matthew Rozsa
Megachile pluto, aka Wallace's Giant Bee (WikiCommons/Naturalis Biodiversity Center)

The parable of the world’s largest bee

Oliver Milman - Undark
Bruce Willis (Rich Fury/Getty Images)

What is aphasia and who gets it?

Matthew Rozsa
A CVS pharmacist gives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to a resident at the Emerald Court senior living community in Anaheim, CA (Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

FDA approves second shot for 50+

Nicole Karlis
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