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Rochelle dos Santos embraces her daughter, who was born with microcephaly in 2016 after dos Santos contracted Zika during her pregnancy in midwest Brazil. (Ueslei Marcelina for Undark)

The forgotten children affected by Zika

Mariana Lenharo - Undark
Medical Billing (Getty Images)

California health care gap widens

Mark Kreidler - Capital & Main
A team of ecologists and ecology students from Kasetsart University collect wingspan data from a wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat at an on site lab near the Khao Chong Pran Cave on September 12, 2020 in Ratchaburi, Thailand. A team of researchers consisting of scientists, ecologists, and officers from Thailand's National Park Department have been conducting bat sampling collection missions throughout Thailand's countryside in an effort to understand the origins of COVID-19. (Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images)

WHO forms team to find COVID's origins

Daniel Karel
Spaceship Earth in Epcot construction at Disney World, 1996 (Chip HIRES/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Disney's vision for a new kind of city

Alex Krieger - The Conversation
A vehicle passes through a flooded street. All the major roads are flooded after the heavy rain during monsoon at Kolkata, West Bengal, India (Dibakar Roy/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

How climate change will flood our cities

Matthew Rozsa
Storm clouds in Arizona. (Getty Images / John Sirlin / EyeEm)

Climate change making monsoons extreme

Diana Zamora-Reyes, Christopher L. Castro - The Conversation
Man sleeping in office (Getty Images/South_agency)

Startup culture is demonizing sleep

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Vials and a box of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine (Algi Febri Sugita/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

FDA panel says yes to Moderna boosters

Matthew Rozsa
Operating room staff performing hospital surgery (Getty Images/Shannon Fagan)

Get vaccine or move down waitlist

JoNel Aleccia - KFF Health News
Woman patient sitting on examination table in doctor's office (Getty Images)

Basic health checkups have big benefits

David Liss, Jefferey A. Linder - Undark
A Mass Patriots for Freedom Rally was held on Beacon Street in front of the State House in Boston, with hundreds protesting against mandatory COVID-19 vaccines on September 17, 2021. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Political gap in vaccinations remains

Matthew Rozsa
Grenoble University Hospital Michallon Hospital Department Of Neurology Unit 'Movement Disorder'. Mri Of A 30 Year Old Patient Suffering From Dystonia, Treated By A High Frequency Deep Brain Stimulation By Implantation Of Electrodes At The Level Of The Internal Paladium. These Electrodes Are Linked To A Neurostimulator, Box Implanted Under The Clavicle. (BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images)

The brain implant that zaps bad thoughts

Nicole Karlis
Doctor examining scan (Getty Images)

Review: illnesses influenced by culture

Elizabeth Svoboda - Undark
Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. (NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez)

NASA's new telescope, explained

Chris Impey - The Conversation
COVID-19 experimental antiviral drug MOLNUPIRAVIR (Getty Images/Plyushkin)

New COVID pill could be a "game-changer"

Nicole Karlis
A layer of pollution can be seen hovering over Los Angeles, California (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

Environmental justice vs. LA Olympics

Adam Mahoney - Grist
(Getty/Ociacia)

Autonomous robots: worse than the bomb?

James Dawes - The Conversation
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. (Getty Images)

Sen. Manchin may derail US climate plan

Michael Oppenheimer - The Conversation
A nurse attends to a COVID-19 patient that is wearing a CPAP helmet while he is moved out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Pope John XXIII Hospital on April 7, 2020 in Bergamo, Italy. (Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

Sleep apnea and the failure of evolution

Matthew Rozsa
Medical syringe is seen with Moderna company logo displayed on a screen in the background (Photo Illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Moderna still refuses to share recipe

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
(Getty/olsword)

COVID can't stop solar’s epic growth

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
George Washington; the SARS-CoV-2 virus. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Washington handled a pandemic

Matthew Rozsa
Dog sitting in a dry sandy desert (Getty Images/K_Thalhofer)

Climate change comes for the dogs

Matthew Rozsa
A healthcare worker wearing a personal protective equipment (PPE) attends to Covid-19 patient wearing oxygen mask inside a Covid-19 care center set up at shehnai banquet hall attached with Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital (LNJP) one of the largest COVID-19 facilities. (Naveen Sharma/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Immunity via infection vs. vaccination

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
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