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Erno Rubik, inventor of the Rubik's Cube (Daniel Karmann/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Ernő Rubik says "play" makes you wise

Matthew Rozsa
A burned residence smolders during the Bear fire, part of the North Lightning Complex fires, in unincorporated Butte County, California on September 09, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Why today's wildfires are so severe

Steven C. Beda - The Conversation
(Getty/oversnap)

Josseline Ramos-Figueroa
Homeless people gather on Willow Street in the Tenderloin on Wednesday, May 6, 2020 in San Francisco, California. (Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

The RV park that's saving lives in SF

Nicole Karlis
Opioid epidemic health danger and medical crisis with a prescription painkiller addiction concept as a group of pills devastating a patient (Getty Images)

Americans don't get the social contract

Jack Shuler
Children covering face with Jack O Lantern bucket in front of house (Getty Images)

Is Halloween cancelled?

Matthew Rozsa
In this illustration, WD 1856 b, a potential Jupiter-size planet, orbits its much smaller host star, a dim white dwarf. (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)

A planet that shouldn't exist... does

Matthew Rozsa
Antibiotics are placed in petri dishes filled with bacteria. In the dish on the left the bacteria will not develop near the antibiotics. In the right petri dish, antibiotic resistant bacteria are growing. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The petri dish of the planet Venus

Matthew Rozsa
Medical staff take care of a patient suffering from Covid-19 at the emergency unit of La Timone hospital in Marseille, southeastern France, on September 11, 2020. (CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP via Getty Images)

Study: Coronavirus immunity may not last

Matthew Rozsa
Scientific American magazine from December 29, 1906 (GHI/Universal History Archive via Getty Images)

Scientific American's political foray

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/Salon)

Robert Reich
California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks in front of the hospital ship USNS Mercy (Carolyn Cole-Pool/Getty Images)

Inmate firefighters: A path to turn pro

Joseph Winters - Grist
Firefighter holding an axe in his hand (Getty Images)

We need a national solution to wildfires

Carl Pope
The charred remains of the Gates Elementary School, which was being used as a staging ground by firefighters, are seen after the passage of the Santiam Fire in Gates, Oregon, on September 10, 2020. (KATHRYN ELSESSER/AFP via Getty Images)

How to stop future wildfires

Matthew Rozsa
A volcano named Sapas Mons dominates this computer-generated view of the surface of Venus. (NASA/JP)

Move over, Mars: Venus is cool again

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Venus (Getty Images)

Why there may be life on Venus

Nicole Karlis
Sparrows taking flight (Getty Images)

Unexplained mass bird deaths in N.M.

Matthew Rozsa
A protester holds an anti-vaccination sign as supporters of President Donald Trump rally to reopen California as the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen, on May 16, 2020 in Woodland Hills, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Inside the mind of an anti-vaxxer

Jonathan Berman
A North Atlantic right whale swims in the waters of Cape Cod Bay April 14, 2019 near Provincetown, Massachusetts. (Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images)

Are whale sharks cold-blooded?

Brittney G. Borowiec - Massive Science
Aerial view of a deforested area in the municipality of Melgaco, Para State, Brazil, on July 30, 2020. (TARSO SARRAF/AFP via Getty Images)

"Our planet is sending alarm signals"

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/Kevork Djansezian)

Marijuana makes it marks on ballots

Justin Franz - KFF Health News
A nurse inoculates volunteer Ilya Dubrovin, 36, with Russia's new coronavirus vaccine in a post-registration trials at a clinic in Moscow on September 10, 2020. (Getty Images)

The major COVID vaccines, explained

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty Images)

Nuclear power’s big new idea is small

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
A participant holding a sign at the protest. Tenants and Housing Activists gathered at Maria Hernandez Park for a rally and march in the streets of Bushwick, demanding the city administration to cancel rent immediately as the financial situation for many New Yorkers remains the same, strapped for cash and out of work. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Designers aim to reimagine PPE

Hannah Thomasy - Undark
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