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Two prescription bottles with pain pills spilling out of them (Getty Images)

States push to regulate pharmacy brokers

Katheryn Houghton - KFF Health News
Comparison of craniums, with the Harbin "Dragon Man" skull on the right. (Kai Geng)

The "Dragon Man" skeptics, explained

Nicole Karlis
Pyrotechnicians prepare for a 4th of July fireworks show (David Greedy/Getty Images)

Scientists: Skip fireworks this July 4th

Jennifer Balch, Alexander L. Metcalf, Dave McWethy, Philip Higuera - The Conversation
Bo Burnham: Inside (Netflix)

Bo Burnham isn't joking about climate

Kate Yoder - Grist
Operating room staff performing hospital surgery (Getty Images/Shannon Fagan)

COVID puts brakes on elective surgeries

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
Ripping vaccination record card (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Punished for being a vaccine guinea pig

Mark Dickinson
Doctor disinfecting arm of patient in volunteer clinic (Getty Images)

Misinformation online about WHO

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
A burned residence smolders during the Bear fire, part of the North Lightning Complex fires, in unincorporated Butte County, California on September 09, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

New book debunks myths about wildfires

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Undertaker worker dressed in full protective clothing and mask pushes a coffin carrying a deceased Covid-19 victim into a mortuary van at a morgue on April 2, 2020. (Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images)

Who's still dying from COVID?

Nicole Karlis
Mummified Remains in Tomb of the Golden Mummies (Getty Images/Ron Watts)

The thorny ethics of museum mummies

Doug Struck - Undark
The waters of Lake Michigan crashes over the pedestrian walk as fog rolls through the Chicago skyline in Chicago, Illinois. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

Big cities are becoming more segregated

Adam Mahoney - Grist
Petrified tree trunks beside the rio Manati near Iquitos, Peru (iStock/Getty Images)

Secrets of Peru's petrified forest

Herb Meyer, Deborah Woodcock - The Conversation
This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova explosion with a rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in its center. In October 2017, astronomers detected the merger of two neutron stars some 130 million light-years away. (Getty/NASA)

A 967-year-old astronomy mystery solved

Nicole Karlis
Young Woman With Stomach Pain (Getty Images/Bundit Binsuk/EyeEm)

This is why your stomach hurts

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Three vials with different vaccines against Covid-19 by (L-R) Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca stand on a table. (THOMAS KIENZLE/AFP via Getty Images)

Which COVID vaccine is best?

Wen Shi Lee, Hyon Xhi Tan - The Conversation
(Leonardo Carrato/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Study warns of severe drying for Amazon

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
Cute Cocker Spaniel Puppy (Getty Images)

Does your dog love you?

Matthew Rozsa
#FreeBritney activists protest at Los Angeles Grand Park during a conservatorship hearing for Britney Spears on June 23, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)

This model may help others like Britney

Laura Guidry
Teenage Climate Crisis activists from various climate activism groups protesting. (Ollie Millington/Getty Images)

How to make GOP care about climate

Kate Yoder - Grist
Scientist pipetting a sample of a new drug formula into a vial during a clinical trial with the infectious disease on the computer screen. (Getty Images)

Using mRNA vaccines to cure HIV

Zoe Sadozai Malik
The Glass Fire burns behind Merus Wines vineyards in Napa Valley, California on September 27, 2020. - The Glass fire grew to 2,500 Acres on the evening of September 27. A heat wave and dry winds create critical weather conditions and mandatory evacuations are in order. (SAMUEL CORUM/AFP via Getty Images)

Heat and air pollution: a dangerous duo

Alexandria Herr - Grist
Health officials carry a dead body of coronavirus (Covid-19) victim on a stretcher to container morgues by the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Help for kids who lost parents to COVID

JoNel Aleccia - KFF Health News
Operating room staff performing hospital surgery (Getty Images/Shannon Fagan)

Modern-day segregation in hospitals

John M. Hollingsworth, Ekow N. Yankah, Brahmajee K. Nallamothu
A mobile vaccination site is seen on Flatbush Avenue on June 09, 2021 in the Flatbush neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

The future of mobile vax clinics

Nicole Karlis
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