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The solar e-waste glut is coming

Maddie Stone - Grist
Donald Trump | A medical lab for processing analysis of test samples. (Getty Images/Salon)

Calls for at-home COVID tests approval

Alexandra Tempus - FairWarning
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Pentagon launches UFO task force

Cody Fenwick - Alternet
Medical workers load a patient from Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center into an ambulance while wearing masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) in Andover, New Jersey. After an anonymous tip to police, 17 people were found dead at the long-term care facility, including two nurses, where at least 76 patients and 41 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

204,691 extra deaths in the U.S. so far

Ronald D. Fricker Jr. - The Conversation
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Trump's health plan that never comes

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
Russian President Vladimir Putin ( Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)

Is Russia's hasty COVID vaccine safe?

Nicole Karlis
Riot police blocking the entrance to I-195 during the demonstration (Adam DelGiudice/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Defund police, re-fund mental health

Matthew Rozsa
Business Bailouts (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Booming business took $137M bailout

Jordan Rau, Rachana Pradhan - KFF Health News
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An artist's rendering of NASA's Juno spacecraft making a pass over Jupiter. (NASA)

The forecast on Jupiter

Nicole Karlis
Coronavirus | Kids at camp on a sports team (Getty Images/Salon)

97,000 kids got coronavirus in 2 weeks

Matthew Rozsa
Dr. Anthony Fauci (Getty Images/Salon)

Fauci unfazed by COVID vaccine worries

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
A one dose bottle of measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine, made by MERCK, is held up at the Salt Lake County Health Department on April 26, 2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Getty/George Frey)

Obesity epidemic threatens COVID vaccine

Sarah Varney - KFF Health News
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Federal Police clash with protesters in front of the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in downtown Portland as the city experiences another night of unrest on July 25, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. | Prisoner with guard John Loftus, involved in the Stanford Prison Experiment. (Getty Images/Salon)

The psych study that became prophecy

Matthew Rozsa
Close-Up Of Cicada On A Tree (Getty Images)

When cicadas become real-life zombies

Matthew Rozsa
The Austrian-born Bernard Hollander favored a quantitative approach to phrenological diagnosis, and is shown here methodically measuring his own skull. His meticulous view of the critical role of cranial measurement mirrored Galton’s in its obsessive assessment of statistical averages. Image: Wellcome Collection. Bernard Hollander: Cranial Measurement (1902) (<a href="https://wellcomecollection.org/works/sqjvypsb">Wellcome Collection</a>. Bernard Hollander: Cranial Measurement (1902))

On the lasting legacy of eugenics

Jessica Helfand - MIT Press Reader
A 99-million-year old fossil of a hell ant, preserved in amber, attacking an ancient insect with its mandibles. (NJIT/Chinese Academy of Sciences/University of Rennes, France)

The hell ant trapped in amber

Matthew Rozsa
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Close up of young woman getting online medical help and advice during videocall with doctor (Getty Images)

Telemedicine's glaring care inequality

Julie Burkhart
Members of the National Guard talk to out of state drivers at a checkpoint set up to hand out information to those coming in from out of state about self-quarantining for 14 days to try to reduce the spread of coronavirus on March 30, 2020 in Hope Valley, RI. Out of state drivers were directed to pull over on I-95 into a rest area between Exits 2 and 3 to speak to the National Guard. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Are travel quarantines being enforced?

Nicole Karlis
The "Women of Abstract Expressionism" Exhibit at the Denver Art Museum (Denver Art Museum)

Art museums will never be the same

David Joselit - MIT Press Reader
Doctor and patient on medical consultation (Getty Images)

Outbreaks have vast impact on women

Gayathri Vaidyanathan - Undark
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Young adult man wearing a pollution mask to protect himself from viruses. His friends are in the background. They all are wearing masks. (Getty Images)

Should we turn face masks into fuel?

Joseph Winters - Grist
A man wearing a medical face mask | Coronavirus spores (Getty Images/Salon)

Why COVID-19 hurts your ability to smell

Matthew Rozsa
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New study links pot to heart disease

Matthew Rozsa
Artist’s interpretation of the calcium-rich supernova 2019ehk. Shown in orange is the calcium-rich material created in the explosion. Purple coloring represents gas shedded by the star right before the explosion, which then produced bright X-ray emission when the material collided with the supernova shockwave. (Aaron M. Geller, Northwestern University)

What a rare new supernova has revealed

Nicole Karlis
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