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Planet-shaping tsunami found on Mars

Nicole Karlis
This aerial view taken on February 17, 2018 with a drone shows pollution being emitted from steel factories in Hancheng, Shaanxi province. / AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR (Photo credit should read FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images) (Fred Dufour/Afp/Getty Images)

Lifeboat Earth

John Feffer - TomDispatch.com
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The most steps might not win

Bruce Horovitz - KFF Health News
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Happy Birthday, Medicare

Nancy J. Altman - Independent Media Institute
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The biological purpose of crying

Nicole Karlis
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How do fireflies glow and why

Clyde Sorenson - The Conversation
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Addressing workers’ mental health

Brian Rinker - KFF Health News
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Study: our guts can solve blood shortage

Lauren Sara McKee - Massive Science
FILE - In this March 23, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama is applauded after signing the Affordable Care Act into law in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) (AP)

Obamacare derangement syndrome

Chris Gay - WhoWhatWhy
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Will Medicare for All close hospitals?

Shira Tarlo
Plastic garbage lying on the Aegean sea beach near Athens on June 26, 2018 , Greece. (Getty/Milos Bicanski)

The barriers to biodegradable plastics

Matthew Rozsa
Vice President-elect Mike Pence addresses the Heritage Foundation's 2016 President's Club Meeting in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) (AP)

Heritage Foundation & conversion therapy

Brianna January - Media Matters
Candida auris in a petri dish at the CDC. (Wikimedia)

Climate crisis created a superbug

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
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Medicare doesn’t travel well

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
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Colorado: How to transition from coal

Rachel M. Cohen - In These Times
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Budget cuts jeopardizing nuclear saftey?

Michael Freeman - WhoWhatWhy
Fried Eggs With Asparagus and Mushrooms (Getty Images)

Nutrition science is broken. Here's why

Timothy F. Kirn - Undark
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It's time to study fungus in microbiomes

Adriana Romero-Olivares - Massive Science
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The avocadopocalypse looms

Nicole Karlis
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Juul hires teen addiction researcher

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News
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Staffing firm cited for safety lapses

Eli Wolfe - FairWarning
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