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Nanopackaging the answer to food waste?

Emerson Grey - Massive Science
Exhaust billows from Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex in Philadelphia, Thursday, June 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Refineries spew cancer-causing benzene

Mike Ludwig - Truthout
A multi-ethnic group of adults are taking a yoga class together at the gym. They are sitting on their exercise mats and are meditating with their eyes closed and their hands together at heart center. (Getty Images)

Can yoga help you change the world?

Lauren Schiller
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Food safety regs: a paucity of research

Teresa Carr - Undark
View of the gas tanks for the liquid natural gas (LNG) drive of the cruise ships of the Carnival Cruise Line at the Neptun dockyard in Rostock, Germany, 1 December 2017. (Bernd Wüstneck/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Does Carnival's green claims hold water?

Maria Gallucci - Grist
People wearing facemasks to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in the city, wait at Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan on January 24, 2020. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty)

Can China prevent its next epidemic?

Apoorva Mandavilli - Undark
(Laura Olivas/Getty Images)

Sense of smell without olfactory bulbs?

Thiago Arzua - Massive Science
Kim McIntyre, from LaJolla, Calif., along with her dog Benji rest on the beach in Encinitas, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. California is having another day of unseasonable warmth before a low-pressure system brings rain and snow. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi) (AP)

Say goodbye to another heat record

Shannon Osaka - Grist
Concept: The New York Times' take on Coronavirus, featuring a 1882 illustrated depiction of diseases emanating from Chinatown. (Getty Images/WikiCommons/Salon)

The racist art of naming a virus

Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko (ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team/Salon)

Why a nearby comet keeps changing colors

Nicole Karlis
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Trump's SOTU: more oil, more trees

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
A large fracking operation becomes a new part of the horizon with Mount Meeker and Longs Peak looming in the background. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Even Pennsylvania doesn't love fracking

Nicole Karlis
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)

A brief history of quarantines

Leslie S. Leighton - The Conversation
A view of the Los Angeles city skyline as heavy smog shrouds the city in California on May 31, 2015 (Getty/Mark Ralston)

Our cars are spewing black carbon

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Gray seal (Halichoerus grypus) (Horst Jegen/McPhoto/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Gray seals clap back (and forth)

Nicole Karlis
Man shutting off alarm clocks (Getty Images)

Why harsh alarms sounds make you cranky

Nicole Karlis
Frances Arnold. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Frances Arnold retracts her paper

Mary Widdicks - Undark
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EPA readies a present to coal industry

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
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A secret reason Rx drugs cost so much

Faisal Chaudhry - The Conversation
House plant and musical instrument (Getty Images)

Houseplants aren't purifying your air

Luyi Cheng - Massive Science
The IceCube Laboratory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, in Antarctica, hosts the computers collecting raw data. Due to satellite bandwidth allocations, the first level of reconstruction and event filtering happens in near real time in this lab. Only events selected as interesting for physics studies are sent to UW–Madison, where they are prepared for used by any member of the IceCube Collaboration. (Felipe Pedreros/IceCube/NSF)

Weird neutrinos are baffling physicists

Nicole Karlis
Tough Love Medicine (Salon/Ilana Lidagoster)

Tough love doesn't help addicts

Erin Khar
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Are you drinking contaminated water?

Mike Ludwig - Truthout
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Does science support wilderness therapy?

Adiel Kaplan - Undark
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