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Oasis Valley speckled dace (Photo by Bureau of Land Management)

Gold mines threaten rare desert fish

Matthew Rozsa
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft launched atop its Titan/Centaur-6 launch vehicle from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex in Florida on September 5, 1977. (NASA)

Behind Voyager 1's near-death experience

Matthew Rozsa
In this photo illustration, a medical syringe is displayed on a screen, and the logo of Moderna in the background. (Photo Illustration by Nikos Pekiaridis/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Bird flu vaccines in development

Matthew Rozsa
A man in the metro wears a medical mask for protection in Istanbul on February 3, 2024. (ILKER ERAY/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Is the COVID summer wave here?

Troy Farah
John Cangialosi, Senior Hurricane Specialist at the National Hurricane Center, inspects a satellite image of Hurricane Beryl, the first hurricane of the 2024 season, at the National Hurricane Center on July 01, 2024 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Hurricane Beryl fueled by climate change

Matthew Rozsa
A group of doctors join abortion rights supporters at a rally outside the Supreme Court on April 24, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

SCOTUS abortion ruling sowing confusion

Nicole Karlis
Lab Mouse (Getty Images/JacobStudio)

Nanorobots kill cancer cells in mice

Matthew Rozsa
Senate wing of the United States Capitol building (Getty Images/OGphoto)

Federal science funding at record lows

Chris Impey - The Conversation
Doctor taking patient blood pressure in hospital examination room. (Getty Images/Kobus Louw)

Unbalanced microbiome may cause diabetes

Matthew Rozsa
A small river meanders through the Amazon rainforest. The world's largest tropical rainforest is crisscrossed by thousands of rivers. (Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Mass extinction: A choice we can reverse

Matthew Rozsa
Rose Floating In The Sea (Getty Images/Fernando Trabanco Fotografía)

Why do we pathologize and "cure" grief?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
The US Supreme Court is seen in Washington DC on May 25, 2023. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

SCOTUS ruling erodes agency power

Matthew Rozsa
Police car speeding through traffic at night time (Getty Images/TheaDesign)

When police shootings don’t kill

Rod McCullom - Undark
To signal its territory to the neighboring group, the indri launches a long complaint which can be heard for several kilometers. (JOUAN/RIUS/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Lemur songs point to evolution of music

Matthew Rozsa
US President George W. Bush walks off the stage after speaking on climate change during a Major Economies Meeting on energy, security and climate change at the State Department in Washington, DC, 28 September 2007. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Failure to curb CO2 repeating history

Matthew Rozsa
Pregnant woman being cared for inside ambulance (Getty Images/xavierarnau)

SCOTUS dismisses Idaho abortion case

Nicole Karlis
Empty Medical Incubator (Getty Images/Capuski)

Infant deaths spiked after abortion bans

Troy Farah
An aerial view of an iceberg while scientists conduct a research on effects of climate change during 8th National Antarctic Science Expedition organized by TUBTAK MAM Polar Research Institute as they have discovered that ice cuticles, sized as much as Turkiye, melted due to the effects of climate change in Antarctica, which is described as the coldest and driest continent of the planet on February 8, 2024. (Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"Tipping point" for Antarctic ice melt

Matthew Rozsa
A Palestinian woman shakes olives to filter off leaves during the olive harvest at a grove outside Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on November 11, 2023. (ARIS MESSINIS / Getty Images)

The archeobotany of occupation

Rae Hodge
In an aerial view, people walk through a section of the 'The Zone', Phoenix's largest homeless encampment, amid the city's worst heat wave on record on July 26, 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Big Oil guilty of murder for heat waves?

Matthew Rozsa
Temple Of Kukulkan El Castillo pyramid, Chichen Itza Mayan ruins, Yucatan, Mexico. (Marco Bottigelli)

Upending the virgin girl sacrifice trope

Rae Hodge
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams (KSC/NASA/Francisco Martin)

NASA must analyze Starliner failures

Rae Hodge
NW Iowa Little Sioux River (Getty Images/lynngrae)

Iowa floods bring risk of "fecal soup"

Marin Scotten
Child Mind Institute Convenes Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff and U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy on World Mental Health Day for Youth Panel on October 10, 2023 in New York City. (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

Gun violence "a public health crisis"

Rachana Pradhan, Fred Clasen-Kelly - KFF Health News
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