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Science & Health (page 175)

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A health worker administers a dose of the Coronavirus vaccine (Xavier Caivinagua/Agencia Press South/Getty Images)

FDA OKs 3rd shot for immunocompromised

Nicole Karlis
Set of syringes with medication (Anna Efetova/Getty Images)

People experiment with COVID boosters

Michael Karlis
Boxes containing the first shipments of the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are unloaded from air shipping containers at UPS Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky. Each box contains dry ice to keep the temperature at minus 70 Celsius and contains a GPS tracker. (Michael Clevenger - Pool/Getty Images)

Jag Bhalla
Laboratory analyzes the situation of coronavirus SARS-COV19 (Sebastian Condrea/Getty Images)

Vaccine-makers rethink their strategy

Matthew Rozsa
An American flag is placed amidst the rubble on August 8, 2021 in Greenville, California. The Dixie Fire, which has incinerated more than 463,000 acres, is the second largest recorded wildfire in state history and remains only 21 percent contained. (Maranie R. Staab/Getty Images)

Dixie Fire is moving too fast for alerts

Joseph Winters - Grist
Smoke from Southern California wildfires drifts through the L.A. Basin, obscuring downtown skyscrapers in a view from a closed Griffith Observatory on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020 in Los Angeles, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Adam Mahoney
Pink symmetrical image of portrait sculpture of Giuliano de' Medici created by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 16 century (Getty Images)

"Malignant normality" defines our era

Matthew Rozsa
Mothers with children, back to school during covid-19 (Getty Images)

Parents feel hopeless as school begins

Nicole Karlis
Oncology surgeon examines x-ray images prior to removing the cancerous tumor (Douglas Sacha/Getty Images)

A better biopsy for prostate cancer

Howard Wolinsky - Undark
Anti-vaccine rally protesters hold signs outside of Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, on June 26, 2021. (MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images)

Calif. bill limits protests at vax sites

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
NASA's Perseverance (Mars 2020) stores rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet's surface for future missions to retrieve in the area known as Jezero crater on the planet Mars. (NASA/Getty Images)

Martian mystery of the missing rocks

Nicole Karlis
A pigeon flies over a Exxon mobil gas station (Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images)

Big Oil spent $10M on Facebook ads

Kate Yoder - Grist
Doing a COVID test in full PPE wear at a senior's home (Getty Images)

Consumers scramble for COVID tests again

Phil Galewitz, Rachel Bluth, Rae Ellen Bichell - KFF Health News
Rising sea levels (freie-kreation/Getty Images)

A vital current system is about to die

Matthew Rozsa
Tablets of Ivermectin drugs (Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

How anti-vaxxers weaponized Ivermectin

Nicole Karlis
A sign for the Food And Drug Administration is seen outside of the headquarters on July 20, 2020 in White Oak, Maryland. (Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)

FDA knew about dangerous heart pumps

Neil Bedi - ProPublica
Group of students wearing protective face masks while raising their hands in class. (Getty Images/Fat Camera)

How to reduce back-to-school anxiety

Elizabeth Englander - The Conversation
Barking Yorkshire Terrier (Getty Images/F.J. Jimenez)

Why are little dogs so annoying?

Matthew Rozsa
A student activist showing a placard stating 'Dalit Lives Matter' (Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Caste shadows India’s science institutes

Ankur Paliwal - Undark
The Sound Of The Sea by Cynthia Barnett (Photo illustration by Salon/Jennifer Adler/W. W. Norton & Company)

What the shells are telling us

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Female holding tablet in front of body to display coloured x-ray illustrations of a pregnancy (Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images)

Could science prolong female fertility?

Matthew Rozsa
(Shutterstock/YARUNIV Studio)

Congress takes steps against PFAS

Jena Brooker - Grist
(Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Emperor penguins at risk for extinction

Stephanie Jenouvrier - The Conversation
An activists from Extinction Rebellion NYC holding a sign at a climate march. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Workers, scholars unite against Big Ag

Daniel O'Connell, Scott Peters
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