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FILE - In this July 9, 2014, file photo, a sign informs visitors of prohibited items on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash. Officials for the Hanford Nuclear Reservation are trying to determine if a second giant underground tank containing radioactive waste from the production of plutonium for nuclear weapons is leaking, the U.S. Department of Energy revealed. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) (AP)

Reinterpreting radioactivity

Jillian S. Ambroz - DCReport
(Getty/fotostorm)

Baths are key to better sleep

Nicole Karlis
Picture taken from the Apollo XI Lunar Module (LM) showing the flag of the United States and the footprints of astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin on the surface of the moon, 21 July 1969. (- / NASA / AFP)

Mapping the Moon for Apollo
(Richard Waitt, U.S. Geological Survey (U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)

Scientists: Spray snow on Antarctica?

Molly Enking - Grist
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This undated handout photo provided by Seth Shostak, SETI Institute, shows the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Seth Shostak, SETI Institute)

Astronomer explains how to see aliens

Jason Wright - The Conversation
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Heart doc by day, Mafia doc by night

Barbara Roberts MD
(Shutterstock)

Why the U.S. can't lower drugs prices

Shira Tarlo
A doctor holds Truvada pills at her office in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

The costs that block HIV treatment

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
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While it makes for a colorful analogy, comparing the brain to a muscle is inaccurate and misleading.

Can language learning prevent dementia?

Richard Roberts, Roger Kreuz - MIT Press Reader
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Physician burnout and the legal solution

Sharona Hoffman - The Conversation
FILE - This Jan. 30, 2012 file photo shows the sign for the ExxonMobil Torerance Refinery in Torrance, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) (AP)

ExxonMobil investigation spurs action

Patti Lynn - Truthout
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Rising temperature, worker safety needed

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News
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A leatherback turtle (Mark Dodd / Wildlife Resources Division, State of Georgia)

Trump reopens "longline" fishing

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
Picture taken from the Apollo XI Lunar Module (LM) showing the flag of the United States and the footprints of astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin on the surface of the moon, 21 July 1969. (- / NASA / AFP)

Should "Moon history" be preserved?

Nicole Karlis
FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2013, file photo, Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state's health insurance exchange, announced that nearly 35,000 people signed up for health insurance during the first month of open enrollment, from Oct. 1 through Nov. 2, during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. State-run health insurance markets that offer taxpayer-subsidized coverage under President Barack Obama’s law are grappling with high costs and disappointing enrollment, challenges that could lead more of them to turn over functions to the federal government, or join forces with other states. With the pressure gone, "I think you are going to see a much more of a hybrid across the nation,' said Lee. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) (AP)

CA restrains health insurance premiums

Barbara Feder Ostrov, Ana B. Ibarra - KFF Health News
(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Gas company appeals to NY customers

Justine Calma - Grist
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DOJ tries new tricks to undo Obamacare

Julie Appleby - KFF Health News
A volunteer of the NGO 'Canarias Libre de Plasticos' (Canary Islands free of plastics) carries out a collection of microplastics and mesoplastic debris to clean the Almaciga Beach, on the north coast of the Canary Island of Tenerife, on July 14, 2018. (Getty/DESIREE MARTIN)

Microplastics leaching into food systems

Nicole Karlis
Grimes (Getty/Jesse Grant)

Eye doctors discuss Grimes' surgery

Nicole Karlis
Bernie Sanders; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Getty/AP/Salon)

What does a "climate emergency" mean?

Paola Rosa-Aquino - Grist
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A power generating windmill towers above a nuclear power plant operated by Exelon on June 14, 2018 near Marseilles, Illinois (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

The bright future for 100% clean energy

Glenn Daigon - WhoWhatWhy
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)'s Geosynchronous Satellite launch Vehicle (GSLV) MkIII carrying Chandrayaan-2 stands at Satish Dhawan Space Center after the mission was aborted at the last minute at Sriharikota, in southern India, Monday, July 15, 2019. (AP/Manish Swarup)

India's plan to join moon club stalled

Nicole Karlis
Pallid sturgeon (L.G. Patterson/AP Photo)

Republicans want to end endangered fish

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
FILE - In this July 28, 2014, file photo, lightning strikes over Lake Mead near Hoover Dam that impounds Colorado River water at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, April 16, 2019, signed a plan to cut back on the use of water from the Colorado River, which serves 40 million people in the U.S. West. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

States buy time with Colorado River plan

Brad Udall, Douglas Kenney, John Fleck - The Conversation
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