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Microplastic | Stomache Pain (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Are microplastics giving us IBS?

Matthew Rozsa
This artist’s impression shows an example of a rogue planet with the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex visible in the background. Rogue planets have masses comparable to those of the planets in our Solar System but do not orbit a star, instead roaming freely on their own. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Rogue planets wander through the galaxy

Nicole Karlis
Antarctica (Getty Images/Johner Images)

The defining words of 2021

Kate Yoder - Grist
Children staying at home during COVIG-19 pandemic (Getty Images/Imgorthand)

Why did CDC cut isolation time in half?

Matthew Rozsa
A man receives a dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in a vaccination clinic set up at St Columba's Church in Sheffield on December 15, 2021 as the UK steps up the country's booster drive to fight a "tidal wave" of Omicron. - The country's medical advisers have raised the Covid Alert Level due to a "rapid increase" in infection from the variant. (OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Double vaxxed, double boosted?

Nicole Karlis
Emergency Room nurses and EMTs tend to patients in hallways at the Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital in Houston, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Long Covid pits patients against doctors

Jack Gorman, David Scales - Undark
An aerial photo shows damage, as cleanup efforts continue after tornado, hit Mayfield, Kentucky, United States on December 12, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

U.S. desperately needs disaster reform

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
A booster dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine is drawn up in a vaccination clinic set up at St Columba's Church in Sheffield on December 15, 2021 as the UK steps up the country's booster drive to fight a "tidal wave" of Omicron. - The country's medical advisers have raised the Covid Alert Level due to a "rapid increase" in infection from the variant. (OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Boosters seem to stop omicron

Matthew Rozsa
Sick girl lying on bed in ICU during COVID-19 (Getty Images/Morsa Images)

Omicron ups pediatric hospitalizations

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
Freshly baked Blueberry and strawberry American Flag pie with a slice missing (Getty Images/DebbiSmirnoff)

"Food is a way of disarming people"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

De Blasio sets vaccine precedent in N.Y.

Mark Kreidler - Capital & Main
Tucker Carlson on TV (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How schizophrenia made me a Republican

Patty Mulcahy
Rat poison trap box (Getty Images/richard johnson)

Rat poison killing way up the food chain

Laura Kiesel
Natural gas flame on a stove (Robert Clare/Getty Images)

Gas company keeps illegal pipe running

Jena Brooker - Grist
USA, California, Los Angeles, traffic on the freeway (Getty Images)

Our misguided obsession with traffic

Brian Ladd - Undark
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla talks during a press conference with European Commission President after a visit to oversee the production of the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at the factory of US pharmaceutical company Pfizer, in Puurs, on April 23, 2021. (JOHN THYS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The grinches hoarding vaccine patents

Charlotte Kilpatrick
15th-century manuscript illustration of Moses spreading the plague of boils (Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The Black Plague had its own truthers

Matthew Rozsa
An offshore oil rig sits in the Gulf of Mexico near Grand Isle, Louisiana, June 12, 2010, as cleanup continues on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden admin bends truth on gas leases

Adam Mahoney - Grist
White rhinoceroses or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum), one dehorned to protect it from poaching, in the Manyeleti Reserve in the Kruger Private Reserves area in the Northeast of South Africa. (Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The debate over rhino breeding

Ed Stoddard - Undark
A woman depositing a plastic bottle in a recycling bin (Getty Images/Andrew Fox)

How the US can reduce plastic production

Joseph Winters - Grist
Young sad man spending Christmas Eve alone at home (Getty Images/Drazen Zigic)

How to cope with holiday loneliness

Nicole Karlis
Donald Trump | Facebook and Twitter logos (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Facebook/Twitter)

Twitter amplifies the right, study finds

Matthew Rozsa
A health worker takes a swab sample from a woman at a COVID-19 testing center (Pedro Fiuza/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Why omicron may mark the pandemic's end

Matthew Rozsa
Downtown drugstore in the evening on 3rd March 2020 in Selma, Alabama, United States. (Barry Lewis/InPictures via Getty Images)

Big box pharmacies leaving rural areas

Markian Hawryluk - KFF Health News
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