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Science & Health (page 143)

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Wind turbines at a wind farm in Colorado City, Texas, January 21, 2016. (Getty/Spencer Platt)

Is clean energy an inflation solution?

Shannon Osaka - Grist
Hens sit in a chicken shed (Jamie McDonald/Getty Images)

A new pandemic comes for the birds

Matthew Rozsa
Young woman practicing yoga on the beach. (Kristina Jovanovic / Getty Images)

Is permanent DST better for our health?

Nicole Karlis
Smog over Los Angeles (Getty Images/Robert Landau)

Ozone linked to teenage depression

Eric Schank
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)

Gas prices turn US to electric vehicles

Chad Small - Grist
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 death toll hugely undercounted

Nicole Karlis
A man arrives at a drive-thru testing station on his bike. Covid-19 cases are drastically rising across New Zealand. The BA2 variant of Omicron has been detected around with Delta during a genomically sequenced test. (Adam Bradley/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Omicron (part two) may be coming

Nicole Karlis
Semi Truck on I-5 (Getty Images)

EPA plans to rein in truck pollution

Julia Kane - Grist
Washington DC Capitol Line Graph (Getty Images/traffic_analyzer)

How political polling got all messed up

Matthew Rozsa
Satelite footage of Hurricane Dorian (NOAA/Getty/Sean Gallup)

5G could be bad for weather forecasting

Chad Small - Grist
Officials from Para State, northern Brazil, inspect a deforested area in the Amazon rain forest during surveillance in the municipality of Pacaja, 620 km from the capital Belem, on September 22, 2021. (EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images)

What happens if the Amazon desertifies?

Eric Schank
A man looking as though he is seeing many reflections of himself in many mirrors and is fluctuating between the emotions of happy and sad (Getty Images/Eric O'Connell)

The pseudoscience of lie detection

Maria Hartwig
Woman's hands holding an empty dish bowl (Getty Images/Marinela Malcheva)

Why fasting makes you feel "high"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)

NFL's speculative Covid science

Rae Ellen Bichell - KFF Health News
Young couple and son washing the dishes in the kitchen (Getty Images/Giselleflissak)

How to divvy up childcare equally

Gail Cornwall
Pr. Mildred Dresselhaus with an ultra high vacuum surface analysis system for imaging and characterizing thin film organic and inorganic materials and devices in the soft semiconductor lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mildred Dresselhaus, USA, LOreal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science, 2007 Laureate for North America, 'For her research on solid state materials, including conceptualizing the creation of carbon nanotubes'. (Micheline PELLETIER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

The remarkable life of a nanotech queen

Maia Weinstock
Young woman holding birth control pills blister pack (Getty Images/Dimitri Otis)

Birth control side effects elude science

Saima Sidik - Undark
Old wood-burning stove in the kitchen of home (Getty Images/ChiccoDodiFC)

Wood burning stoves spark health issues

Diana Kruzman - Undark
In this photo illustration, a man looks at his supplies for type-1 diabetes management, including tubed insulin pump, insulin vial, syringe, needle, insulin cartridge, and infusion site applicator. (Matt Harbicht/Getty Images for Tandem Diabetes Care)

A cure for Type 1 diabetes inches nearer

Nicole Karlis
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)

The war against abortion pills

Chris Ahlbach
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), an HIV preventative drug (Daniel Born/The Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Why isn't HIV preventative care free?

Sarah Varney - KFF Health News
Nuclear Weapons Pointed At Each Other Over Earth (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Does nuclear deterrence even work?

Matthew Rozsa
Six power units generate 40-42 billion kWh of electricity making the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant the largest nuclear power plant not only in Ukraine, but also in Europe, Enerhodar, Zaporizhzhia Region, southeastern Ukraine. (Dmytro Smolyenko/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Russia's nuclear near-miss in Ukraine

Matthew Rozsa
Gas pump in gas station (Getty Images/MR.WUTTISAK PROMCHOO)

The flammable politics of gas prices

Eve Andrews - Grist
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