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Australia - America connection (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Australasians migrated to America

Matthew Rozsa
Adult Son Talking To Father At Home (Getty Images)

Why can't my caregiver get vaccinated?

Nicole Karlis
The abortion drug Mifepristone (Phil Walter/Getty Images)

The digital frontier of abortion access

Rebecca Grant - Undark
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies before a House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing on July 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump administration officials are set to defend the federal government's response to the coronavirus crisis at the hearing hosted by a House panel calling for a national plan to contain the virus. (Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images)

Fauci: US won't mandate vaccine passport

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
Side View Of Young Couple Wearing Masks Kissing Against Wall (Getty Images)

How the pandemic ruined sex

Matthew Rozsa
An illustration of NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter flying on Mars (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Ingenuity survives night alone on Mars

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/olsword)

Lessons from UK's housing retrofit woes

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
A healthcare worker receives a dose of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine (Wong Fok Loy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

What to expect after your 2nd COVID shot

Nicole Karlis
The skull and jaw of an Allosaurus skeleton is displayed at the Drouot auction house, in Paris on October 9, 2020 (THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images)

The dino named for being scary

Matthew Rozsa
A young couple cuddling and watching a movie on a video projector (Getty Images)

This is your brain on closed captions

Mary Elizabeth Williams
SUEZ CANAL, March 29, 2021 -- Photo taken on March 29, 2021 shows the container ship Ever Given moving on the Suez Canal, Egypt. The traffic in Suez Canal resumed after massive container ship Ever Given has been successfully refloated as being stranded in the canal for almost a week, Egypt's Suez Canal Authority SCA said on Monday. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa via Getty Images)

The physics of big ships like Ever Given

Margaux Lopez - Massive Science
Auto traffic flows in and out of Los Angeles, California, one of the worst traffic-congested cities in the country, on August 28, 2018. - Shares of big US automakers rose on news the US and Mexico reached a deal to update the 25-year North American Free Trade Agreement, pending Congressional approval. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images) (Frederic J. Brown/Getty)

Activists distrust emissions initiative

Ysabelle Kempe - Grist
Julija Stoliarenko of Lithuania poses on the scale during the UFC weigh-in at UFC APEX on March 19, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

How to gain 10% of your mass in one day

Jonathan Gelber
Plastic pellets and sperm count (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Plastics are making us infertile

Matthew Rozsa
A worker, engulfed inside a plume created by the CIPP process, speaks with a researcher who wears a full face respirator to protect against chemical exposures. (Courtesy of Andrew Whelton / Undark)

Questions linger over worker's death

Robin Lloyd - Undark
(Getty/zeynepogan)

CDC says people can fly. Should we?

William Petri - The Conversation
"To The Greatest Heights" by Vanessa O'Brien (Photo illustration by Salon/Penny Vizcarra)

From the C-suite to K2

Nicole Karlis
Demi Lovato speaks on stage at the Teen Vogue Summit 2019 at Goya Studios on November 02, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Rich Fury/Getty Images for Teen Vogue)

Lovato is California sober—and that's OK

Ryan Hampton
(Kathryn Harris/ 4Goodnesscake/Getty Images)

Chocolate's secret delicious ingredient

Caitlin Clark - The Conversation
Medical syringes are seen with Pfizer company logo displayed on a screen in the background in this illustration photo taken in Poland on October 12, 2020. (Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Pfizer vax still works, 6 months later

Nicole Karlis
Concertina wire, added by U.S. Army troops, is seen covering the US-Mexico border wall in Nogales, Arizona (Max Herman/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Mapping migrant deaths with GIS

Emily Cataneo - Undark
Aerial view of a large soy field eating into the tropical rainforest in Brazil (<a href='url to photographer'>Frontpage</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Deforestation promises up in flames

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
Kate Hudson and Maddie Ziegler in "Music" (IMAX)

Hollywood still can't get autism right

Matthew Rozsa
Coronavirus COVID-19 (Getty Images)

COVID now 3rd most common cause of death

Matthew Rozsa
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