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People line up for COVID-19 vaccinations at Nassau Community College on January 10, 2021 in Garden City, New York. Nassau County now has two vaccine centers as another 3.2 million New Yorkers become eligible for the vaccine (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

Inequality and the vaccination system

Maryam Jameel, Caroline Chen - ProPublica
Earth cross section in space view (Getty Images)

Earth gets a new layer

Matthew Rozsa
Greg Abbott (Reuters/Brendan McDermid/Shutterstock/Photo montage by Salon)

Texas school boards don't require masks

Aliyya Swaby - The Texas Tribune
Mink look out from their cage at the farm of Henrik Nordgaard Hansen and Ann-Mona Kulsoe Larsen as they have to kill off their herd, which consists of 3000 mother mink and their cubs on their farm near Naestved, Denmark, on November 6, 2020 (MADS CLAUS RASMUSSEN/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)

Mink and coronavirus: A love story

Matthew Rozsa
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Baby steps toward post-COVID life (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

CDC: Baby steps to post-COVID life

Matthew Rozsa
Doctor examining scan (Getty Images)

False cancer diagnosis from vaccine

Nicole Karlis
Planet Earth with Coronavirus and Trees (Getty Images)

WHO: Pandemic won't end in 2021

Matthew Rozsa
Ominous red COVID-19 coronavirus cells under microscope magnification intertwined with dark blue DNA cell structure (Getty Images)

Mutant coronaviruses could set us back

Matthew Rozsa
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To Raise a Boy by Emma Brown (Photo illustration by Salon/Kate Warren/Atria)

How to stop boys from becoming monsters

Nicole Karlis
A view of high voltage transmission towers on February 21, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Millions of Texans lost their power when winter storm Uri hit the state and knocked out coal, natural gas and nuclear plants that were unprepared for the freezing temperatures brought on by the storm. Wind turbines that provide an estimated 24 percent of energy to the state became inoperable when they froze. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Oil money fuels Texas deregulators

Ti-Hua Chang - The Young Turks
French Fabien Danjan of CNRS (French Reseach Institut Center) processes to a handling as he introduces embryonic stem cells in a mouse embryo to set a genetically modified line, on February 9, 2012, at the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML), in the transgenesis laboratory which in charge to create animals in order to understand how genes work, in Marseille, southern France. AFP PHOTO / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT (Photo credit should read ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/Getty Images) (Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images)

Stem cell treatment gives fertility hope

Ivana Marisa Da Costa Martins - Massive Science
Mammoth is partially thawed and emerging from the ice block (Getty Images)

Cloning a mammoth: Hype vs. reality

Matthew Rozsa
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Curbing suicide by pesticide poisoning

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar - Undark
A replica of one of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered, the Titanosaur, is unveiled at the American Museum of Natural History on January 14, 2016 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The biggest and oldest dinosaur

Matthew Rozsa
Pure America by Elizabeth Catte (Photo illustration by Salon/Josh Howard/Belt Publishing)

How eugenics still haunts us

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(The back cover of "Copy Art: The First Complete Guide to the Copy Machine," a 1978 how-to guide on copy art.)

How Britain used sex to sell computers

Mar Hicks - MIT Press Reader
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A medical worker inoculates a citizen with Covid-19 vaccine at a children's hospital in Chongqing, China, Feb. 16, 2021. (Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

Sinophobia is hurting pandemic response

Matthew Rozsa
A pro-Trump mob floods into the Capitol Building after breaking into it on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

How to escape the trap of tribalism

Philip Laughlin - MIT Press Reader

Solitary confinement & COVID spread

Robin Blades - Undark
Gavel and medicine (Getty Images)

Big Pharma doesn't want us to get well

Matthew Rozsa
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Hundreds of people line up for their turn at receiving the COVID-19 vaccine at Kedren Health on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Why we can’t make vaccine doses faster

Isaac Arnsdorf, Ryan Gabrielson - ProPublica
Icicles hang off the State Highway 195 sign on February 18, 2021 in Killeen, Texas. Winter storm Uri has brought historic cold weather and power outages to Texas as storms have swept across 26 states with a mix of freezing temperatures and precipitation. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Texas plants released excess pollution

Erin Douglas - The Texas Tribune
Dog with a protective mask on his face (Getty Images)

Are we overtreating rabies?

Gustav Cappaert - Undark
A mailbox is seen frozen in a snow covered neighborhood in Waco, Texas as severe winter weather conditions over the last few days has forced road closures and power outages over the state on February 17, 2021. - Millions of people were still without power on February 17 in Texas, the oil and gas capital of the United States, and facing water shortages as an unusual winter storm pummeled the southeastern part of country. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a winter storm warning for a swathe of the country ranging from east Texas to the East Coast state of Maryland. (MATTHEW BUSCH/AFP via Getty Images)

America's power grid is broken

Matthew Rozsa
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