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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
Several young people running on treadmill in gym wearing face mask (Getty Images)

CDC says gyms are dangerous

Nicole Karlis
Divorce over QAnon (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

QAnon is ruining marriages

Nicole Karlis
CSL vaccine manufacturing facility on February 12, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. (David Caird-Pool/Getty Images)

Who really controls vaccine supply?

Matthew Rozsa
Rep. Debra Haaland (D-NM), President Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of the Interior, testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resource, at the U.S. Capitol on February 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Leigh Vogel-Pool/Getty Images)

Why Deb Haaland isn't too "radical"

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Doctors and nurses taking care of patients in ICU at hospital during COVID-19 (Getty Images)

Mutant COVID is here to ruin your day

Matthew Rozsa
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)

Meet the "vaccine scavengers"

Nicole Karlis
Coronavirus spreading through New York City (Getty Images)

New York has its own virus strain now

Matthew Rozsa
Rough Seas (Getty Images)

The collapse of the Atlantic current

Matthew Rozsa
Little boy overwhelmed during the COVID-19 pandemic (Getty Images)

Can we return to normal? Science says no

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
Governor Ron DeSantis (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images)

DeSantis advances questionable science

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
Alien microbes in space above Mars, conceptual illustration. (Getty Images)

What would Martian life look like?

Matthew Rozsa
People in face masks waiting in line for vaccination (Getty Images)

You're vaccinated now. What can you do?

Nicole Karlis
Tesla head Elon Musk (Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

Musk’s empty climate change prize

Cassie Freund - Massive Science
Mexican laborers cut broccoli stalks for Smith Farms' crew A as the harvest season gets underway at a Smith Farm's field near Fort Fairfield in central Aroostook County. Smith Farm's employ over 150 migrant workers to help in their harvest of both broccoli and potatos. (John Ewing/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

An extinction crisis is coming to dinner

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Plastic garbage lying on the Aegean sea beach near Athens on June 26, 2018 , Greece. (Getty/Milos Bicanski)

Recycling plastic trash into graphene

Juliette Strasser - Massive Science
Large beluga sturgeon in lake (Getty Images)

We're approaching fishpocalypse

Matthew Rozsa
A health worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 at the Versalles Clinic, in Cali, Colombia, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic on February 19, 2021. (LUIS ROBAYO/AFP via Getty Images)

COVID survivors don't need two shots

Nicole Karlis
Female high school students bullying classmate (Getty Images)

Why do bullies bully? It's social

Matthew Rozsa
Digital generated image of circular pattern made out of Syringes with COVID-19 vaccine targeting into coronavirus cell (Getty Images)

Two-shot vaccines still work after one

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

Kate Yoder
(Getty/MarioGuti)

Electric vehicles for all

Maria Gallucci - Grist
Registered nurse Darlene Dickens-Jeffers holds a vile of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine before giving the vaccine to healthcare employees of AltaMed Medical and Dental Group in Anaheim on Friday, January 8, 2021. (Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Companies pan for vaccine marketing gold

Sarah Kwon - KFF Health News
This illustration shows NASA’s Mars 2020 spacecraft carrying the Perseverance rover as it approaches Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land on Mars safely on Feb. 18, 2021. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Listen to a spacecraft land on Mars

Matthew Rozsa
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