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Enabling drug use or saving lives?

Giles Bruce - KFF Health News
Quality control operator of the Spanish publishing outfit Siloe Luis Miguel works on cloning the illustrated codex hand-written manuscript Voynich in Burgos on August 9, 2016. (Cesar Manso/AFP via Getty)

The quest to crack the Voynich code

Jillian Foley - Undark
A tree sprouting in a forest (Getty Images)

The "trillion tree" debate

Dan Lambe
Cows graze in the fields and farms. (David Paul Morris/Getty Images)

BLM wants to go back to the Dust Bowl

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
Advertising billboards on Oxford Circus underground station, London, England, circa 1960. (Harvey Meston/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

The corporate manipulation of science

Christie Aschwanden - Undark
Cars destroyed by the Camp Fire sit in the lot at a used car dealership on November 9, 2018 in Paradise, California. (Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)

Insurers: support us, not fossil fuels

Tony Dunn - Truthout
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Sen. Ernst wants "changes" to Medicare

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
American VS Canadian Hospitals (Getty Images/Salon)

US health admin costs 4X more vs. Canada

Igor Derysh
Man looking through apps on his smartphone (Getty Images)

How to date your A.I.

Tamara Schwartz
Teenage boy resting his head against a reflective surface, looking to be in a sad or pensive mood. (Getty Images/Marcel ter Bekke)

How to love yourself

Tara Well
In this Dec. 30, 2016 photo, a truck leaves with metal products from the sprawling complex that is a part of the Jiujiang steel and rolling mills in Qianan in northern China's Hebei province. Faced with choking smog in the Chinese capital, Chinese media and policy circles often point to a list of culprits: the central government's inability to shut down polluting steel mills, the middle class's insatiable demand for cars, poorer segments of society's insistence on burning coal. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) (AP)

Paris Agreement: unrealistic target?

Shannon Osaka - Grist
OxyContin pill bottles scattered in front of protestors of the opioid crisis. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The opioid crisis is a big issue in NH

Amanda Latimore - The Conversation
FILE--This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows a side view of a recently emerged adult female western glacier stonefly from below Grinnell Glacier in Glacier National Park, Mont. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, proposed adding the western glacier stonefly and the meltwater lednian stonefly to the government's list of threatened species.(Joe Giersch/U.S. Geological Survey via AP, File) (Joe Giersch/U.S. Geological Survey via AP, File)

Save the insects, save ourselves

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
Activists rally against ExxonMobil during the Global Climate March in Washington, D.C., on November 29, 2017. (Johnny Silvercloud/Flickr)

Calls for law firm to #DropExxon

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
A quarantine warning is displayed outside the horse racing track at Turf Paradise, Friday, Jan. 29, 2016, in Phoenix. Turf Paradise has euthanized one horse and is quarantining two others in the wake of a herpes outbreak that surfaced in New Mexico.(AP Photo/Matt York) (AP)

Trump ripening U.S. for pandemics

Linda J. Bilmes - The Conversation
In this undated photo released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a dispersing wolf from the Oregon Pack OR-54, a descendent of the famous OR-7, the first wild wolf in California in nearly a century. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife says the 3- to 4-year-old female dubbed OR-54 was found on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, in Shasta County, Calif. It's not clear yet whether she died by accident, naturally or was deliberately and illegally killed. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/AP Photo)

A wolf's 8,700-mile journey for love

Nicole Karlis
Hale-Bopp Comet behind the Very Large Array (VLA) Radio Telescope near Socorro, New Mexico. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The mystery of the extragalactic signal

Nicole Karlis
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Women receiving surprise bills for IUD

Shefali Luthra - KFF Health News
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Bats can carry viruses without symptoms

Marnie Willman - Massive Science
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Good for business, bad for patients

Melissa Bailey - KFF Health News
Charcoal Toothpaste (Getty Images)

The charcoal "health" trend needs to die

Nicole Karlis
In this July 8, 2015 file photo a bumblebee gathers nectar on a wildflower in Appleton, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Climate chaos driving bumblebee decline

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
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How a plant-rich diet can reduce stress

Kathleen Kevany - The Conversation
(Timothy Allen/Getty Images)

Exploring the biology of friendship

Elizabeth Svoboda - Undark
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