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"The Handmaid's Tale" (Hulu/George Kraychyk)

The Handmaid’s Tale & Descent of Man

Ian Hesketh - The Conversation
An illustration shows a man exhaling smoke from an electronic cigarette in Washington, DC on October 2, 2018. - In just three years, the electronic cigarette manufacturer Juul has swallowed the American market with its vaporettes in the shape of a USB key. Its success represents a public health dilemma for health authorities in the United States and elsewhere. (Photo by EVA HAMBACH / AFP) (Photo credit should read EVA HAMBACH/AFP/Getty Images) (Eva Hambach/AFP/Getty Images)

The corporate art of deception

Keith A. Spencer
(Getty/Chalabala)

Using anthrax to fight cancer?

R. Claudio Aguilar - The Conversation
(Getty/RuslanDashinsky)

Preterm birth drug divides doctors

Emmarie Huetteman - KFF Health News
(Terry Vine/Getty Images)

Are your medications worth its price?

Lola Butcher - Undark
People watch an intelligent robot painting during the opening of the 3rd World Intelligence Congress (WIC) at the Meijiang Convention & Exhibition Center on May 16, 2019 in Tianjin, China. The 3rd WIC with the theme of 'Intelligence New Era: Progress, Planning and Opportunity' is held on May 16-19 in Tianjin. (Visual China Group via Getty Images)

Machines have learned creativity

Arthur I. Miller
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)

Lessons we learned from measles

Will Stone - KFF Health News
A general view of the outside of Hard Rock Stadium during Super Bowl week on January 28, 2020 in Miami Gardens, FL. (Rich Graessle/PPI/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

One last Super Bowl, as a treat

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Passengers wear face masks to protect against the spread of the Coronavirus as they arrive on a flight from Asia at Los Angeles International Airport, California, on January 29, 2020. (Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images)

Face masks signal cultural disconnect

Anna Almendrala - KFF Health News
(Getty Images/istockphoto)

The brain cells that link mind and body

Emily Anthes - Undark
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump admin gives 9 states climate aid

Zoya Teirstein - Grist

East Africa has a locust crisis

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Platypus (Getty Images)

Why the platypus could go extinct

Nicole Karlis
Scientists doing research on desktop PC in a laboratory. (Getty Images)

Pushing docs to prescribe opioids

Matthew Rozsa
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross (Dominik Bindl/Getty Images)

Sec. Ross: Coronavirus good for economy

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump plans to "save" social security

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport
Tourists wear face masks as they prepare to board their tour bus outside the New Orient Landmark hotel in Macau on January 22, 2020, after the former Portuguese colony reported its first case of the new SARS-like virus that originated from Wuhan in China. (ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

Eoin Higgins
The Infrared Astronomical Satellite, or IRAS, was the first mission to put a telescope in space to survey the sky in infrared. (NASA)

When satellites collide

Nicole Karlis
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The fate of the Earth: See page five

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
(NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. cities preparing for coronavirus

Nicole Karlis
Healthcare costs and fees (Getty Images/Prapass Pulsub)

Our regressive healthcare system

Nicole Karlis
(Carol Yepes/Getty Images)

The risks of in-home teeth-straightening

Julie Appleby, Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
Climate change activists take part in the international Strike for Climate protest in Los Angeles on May 24, 2019. (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

Why climate change is a political crisis

Ramin Skibba - Undark
(Marcelo Hernandez/Getty Images)

Even planets have their (size) limits

Natalie Hinkel - The Conversation
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