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Science & Health (page 186)

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Prescription medication is strewn about, with pill bottles in the deep background. (Getty Images)

I fled my anxiety through Xanax

Matthew Rozsa
Communications satellite orbiting Earth (Getty Images)

Space pollution is a big problem

Timiebi Aganaba - The Conversation
A senior patient using a mask looking through the window at the hospital (Getty Images)

How COVID impacted Alzheimer’s patients

Burcin Ikiz - Massive Science
British-Dutch oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell PLC sign , commonly known as Shell (Aleksander Kalka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Big Oil is awash in rainbows for Pride

Kate Yoder - Grist
Black Hole (Getty Images)

Is this what dark matter is?

Nicole Karlis
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)

Americans face a "grief pandemic"

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
Anthony Fauci | COVID-19 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Doctors become unwilling celebrities

Matthew Rozsa
Shipping containers are unloaded at the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach, California on May 14, 2019. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)

Container ship accidents on the rise

Tim Lydon - The Revelator
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)

5 COVID-19 vaccine myths, debunked

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
(Getty/stevanovicigor)

Weight stigma occurs around the world

Rebecca Puhl - The Conversation
This bison calf, standing in the doorway of a barn on the Blackfeet Reservation, is a symbol of hope for the Blackfoot people. (Louise Johns / Undark)

Bringing bison back to the Great Plains

Louise Johns - Undark
The wildfire spreads on August 19, 2020 in San Mateo, California. (Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images)

How many has climate change killed?

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
While it makes for a colorful analogy, comparing the brain to a muscle is inaccurate and misleading.

The neurological reason you say "um"

Adriel John Orena - Massive Science
Nurse giving flu vaccine to a senior patient (Getty Images)

POTS turning up in COVID long-haulers

Cindy Loose - KFF Health News
(Getty/bernie_photo)

SIDS monitors: a mixed bag of evidence

Michael Schulson - Undark
Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef outside Cairns Australia during a mass bleaching event, thought to have been caused by heat stress due to warmer water temperatures as a result of global climate change. (Getty Images/Brett Monroe Garner)

The next major extinction event is here

Matthew Rozsa
Pregnant Girl by Nicole Lynn Lewis (Photo illustration by Salon/Erika Layne/Beacon Press)

"Pregnant Girl" flips the script

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Macro image of a dead bee on a leaf (Getty Images)

A pollen-size "pill" for bees

Matthew Rozsa
Universe, planets and lots of stars (Getty Images)

When will the first space baby be born?

Chris Impey - The Conversation
Catfishing (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How catfishers exploit basic neurology

Stacey Wood, Tessa Solomon Lane, Brian Keeley, Thomas Borowski
(Getty Images)

One town’s struggle with health care

Jaime R. Herndon - Undark
Tardigrade, water bear visiting the Moon (Getty Images)

Water bears survive being shot from gun

Matthew Rozsa
Greedy (Getty Images)

Our genes aren't "selfish"

Jeremy Lent
Syringes with the Astrazeneca active ingredient (l-r), Comirnaty from Biontech/Pfizer and from Moderna lie prepared in trays for vaccination against Corona. (Robert Michael/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Can vaccinated people spread COVID?

Sanjay Mishra - The Conversation
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