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Repeated vials and syringes with covid-19 vaccine (Getty Images)

A universal coronavirus vaccine

Matthew Rozsa
Anti-vaccine activists protest and hold signs in front of the Massachusetts State House against Governor Charlie Baker's mandate that all Massachusetts school students enrolled in child care, pre-school, K-12, and post-secondary institutions must receive the flu vaccine this year on August 30, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

There's a spectrum of vaccine hesitancy

Nicole Karlis
The silhouetted forms of a pair of courting sauropod dinosaurs (Getty Images)

Exactly how did dinosaurs have sex?

Matthew Rozsa
Assorted pistols on display (Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Are mass shootings an American epidemic?

Lacey Wallace - The Conversation
Tyrannosaurus Rex, trailing behind Ceratopsians (Getty Images)

Scientists say T. Rex was a slow walker

Matthew Rozsa
CEO of Humana, Bruce Broussard (Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)

Fred Schulte
(Leonardo Carrato/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

The importance of private lands

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Boy Eating Multi Colored Breakfast Cereal (Getty Images)

Sugar affects children's brain growth

Nicole Karlis
Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden's "bullsh*t" climate plan

Matthew Rozsa
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)

DeSantis & YouTube spar over roundtable

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
Mother in swimsuit applying protective face mask on daughter (Getty Images)

When can kids under 12 get vaccinated?

Nicole Karlis
Bathroom Toilet | Coronavirus (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Toilet-flushing is spreading COVID-19

Matthew Rozsa
Young woman feeling bored while staying home for safety during a global pandemic (Getty Images)

Many are anxious about socializing

Claudia Finkelstein - The Conversation
A sign marks the location of the Rikers Correctional Center in the East River on March 9, 2021 in New York City. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

US jails & environmental hazards

Adam Mahoney - Grist
Coronavirus vaccine vials in hospital (Getty Images)

You got a COVID vaccine appt. Now what?

Rae Ellen Bichell - KFF Health News
Planet Earth | Red Flag (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Earth throws up a red flag

Matthew Rozsa
A healthcare worker takes a nasal swab sample from a resident to test for COVID-19 at The Abyssinian Baptist Church in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on May 13, 2020. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Why are COVID cases still rising?

Nicole Karlis
Preparatory to their filing a $500,000 damage suit against the girl's mother, Mrs. Maryon Hewitt McCarter, two California physicians, and a psychiatrist, Miss Ann Cooper Hewitt, (right), and her attorney, Russel P. Tyler, are shown making final depositions. The charges claimed her mother and the doctors conspired to perform an operation rendering her sterile. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

The forced sterilization of an heiress

Audrey Clare Farley
The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (Photo illustration by Salon/Chanda Prescod-Weinstein/Bold Type Books)

A physicist mulls a universe of bias

Joshua Roebke - Undark
Female medical professional in Personal Protective Equipment (Getty Images)

A new category of organ transplants

JoNel Aleccia - KFF Health News
Otters | COVID-19 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Now sea otters can get COVID-19, too

Matthew Rozsa
Artist's Impression of Dragonfly on Titan’s surface. (NASA/Johns Hopkins AP)

After Mars flight, NASA looks to Titan

Nicole Karlis
A full scale model of the experimental Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which will be carried under the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, is displayed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on February 16, 2021 in Pasadena, California. - The Mars exploration rover will search for signs of ancient microbial life and collect rock samples for future return to Earth to study the red planet's geology and climate, paving the way for human exploration. Perseverance also carries the experimental Ingenuity Mars Helicopter - which will attempt the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

First flight on Mars

Matthew Rozsa
Tyrannosaurus-rex (Getty Images)

Scientists just did a T. Rex census

Matthew Rozsa
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