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Crimson Rosella, Platycercus elegans, at O'Reilly's Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia. (David Tipling/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Animals evolving as the climate changes

Matthew Rozsa
Saturn's moon Enceladus (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Is there life on one of Saturn's moons?

Nicole Karlis
Sick man with covid-19 symptoms in bed (Getty Images)

What to know about breakthrough COVID

Will Stone - KFF Health News
An Emergency Room RN tends to a patient in a hallway at the Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital on August 18, 2021 in Houston, Texas. (Getty Images)

COVID as seen from the emergency room

Jamie Herndon - Undark
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; Jeff Bezos (Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

The bill corporate America is scared of

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
USA, California, Los Angeles, traffic on the freeway (Getty Images)

California's three new housing laws

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
A bustling hallway in the emergency department at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital due to coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in Oceanside, New York (Jeffrey Basinger/Newsday via Getty Images)

New infections are driving variants

Vaughn Cooper, Lee Harrison - The Conversation
Scared man sitting with his eyes closed during coronavirus vaccination in a hospital (Getty Images)

COVID, not vaccines, causes infertility

Nicole Karlis
Passengers wear face masks to protect against the spread of the Coronavirus as they arrive on a flight from Asia at Los Angeles International Airport, California, on January 29, 2020. (Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden lifts travel ban amid COVID surge

Kenneth Tran
Little Sad Boy Kid Student In Protective Face Mask Looking Out Of School Yellow Bus Window (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Anna Kraynova/EyeEm)

What kids wish adults knew about school

Gail Cornwall
A United Airlines passenger jet prepares to land at Reagan National Airport on February 5, 2020 in Washington, DC (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

The messy truth about carbon footprints

Sam Grover - Undark
Scientists are trees in the forest (Getty Images/Thirawatana Phaisalratana)

Can planting trees save the world?

Matthew Rozsa
"The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness" by Suzanne O'Sullivan (Photo illustration by Salon/Jonathan Greet/Pantheon)

"We're pushed into overdiagnosing"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies at a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. The committee will hear testimony about the Biden administration's ongoing plans to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and Delta variant. (Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

Fauci and NIH back booster shots

Sarah Jane Tribble, Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
Mark Zuckerberg (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Online engagement drives misinformation

Filippo Menczer - The Conversation
Serious upset little boy wearing a protective face mask looking through a school fence shaking it (Getty Images/Juanmonino)

Our kids are not alright

Hansa Bhargava, David Hill
A sign displays the types of COVID-19 vaccination doses available at a Walgreens mobile bus clinic on June 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. The United States will miss President Joe Biden's goal of delivering at least one coronavirus vaccine dose to 70 percent of adults by the July 4th holiday. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

My life among the unvaccinated

Lala Tanmoy Das
Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. (NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez)

The Webb Telescope: Hubble on steroids

Marcia Rieke - The Conversation
Two vaccine syringes (Getty Images/golibtolibov)

FDA panel rejects mass booster plan

Nicole Karlis
Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers gathered at Indiana University's Sample Gates to protest against mandatory Covid vaccinations IU is requiring for students, staff and faculty during the upcoming fall semester. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

26 states roll back public health powers

Lauren Weber, Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News
Marin County Fire medic Kevin Stone prepares a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to be administered to staff at The Tamalpais Marin assisted living facility in Greenbrae, California. (Jessica Christian/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Why do anti-vaxxers refuse the vaccine?

S. Shyam Sundar - The Conversation
Man refusing to get injection of vaccine (Getty Images)

COVID-19 survivors refusing vaccines

Matthew Rozsa
Allergic man blowing on wipe in a park on spring season a sunny day (Getty Images/Pheelings Media)

Is it a cold, allergies or COVID-19?

Nicole Karlis
Doctor giving first aid bandage after vaccination to senior woman (Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images)

Why you can still trust medicine

Venktesh Ramnath - The Conversation
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