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Health clubs using tanning beds

Sherry Pagoto - The Conversation
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All-nighters may damage your brain

Hannah Thomasy
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Next-gen nukes

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
The remnants of a destroyed home stand more than two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit the island on October 6, 2017. (Getty/Mario Tama)

Reasons the US is vulnerable to disaters

Morten Wendelbo - The Conversation
(AP/NASA)

How many humans can the Earth support?

Andrew D. Hwang - The Conversation
The mummy of an iceman named Otzi, discovered on 1991 in the Italian Schnal Valley glacier. (Getty/Andrea Solero)

What life was like in the Copper Age

Nicole Stock
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A Texan healthcare breakthrough

Caroline Covington - KFF Health News
(AP)

Vulnerable demographics for health care

Marcia G. Ory - The Conversation
Andrew Wheeler; Scott Pruitt (AP/Getty/Salon)

Pruitt's gone: EPA still terrible

Amanda Marcotte
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Study: Flying may be bad for your health

Nicole Karlis
An oil platform off the coast of Brazil (Wikimedia)

Governments are suing oil companies

Patrick Parenteau - The Conversation
(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

The West is burning

Eric Holthaus - Grist
(AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Essential reads: Coping with heat waves

Jennifer Weeks - The Conversation

What happens if I eat moldy cheese?

Katie Macdonald - Food52
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Mother’s milk, for thousands of years

Joan Y. Meek - The Conversation
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How to cultivate new buds as you age

Bruce Horovitz - KFF Health News
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Alcohol health risks may be underplayed

Christina Mair - The Conversation
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Why women outlive men

Dr. Neil Baum,  Dr. Scott Miller
(Paul Aiken/Daily Camera via AP)

We’ve entered the era of "fire tsunamis"

Eric Holthaus
(Shutterstock)

Insurers fall short in catching fraud

Chad Terhune - KFF Health News
A cliff dwelling preserved for millennia by the dry high-desert climate was included in a March 20 lease sale for oil and gas companies in southeast Utah. Officials from the federal Bureau of Land Management published confidential information online about locations and descriptions of almost 900 Native American antiquities, including cliff dwellings, in Utah. (Steven St. John for Reveal)

Feds divulge secret Native American info

Jennifer Oldham - Reveal
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Inmates cannot be saved from Hep C

Siraphob Thanthong-Knight - KFF Health News
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Battle against radiation safety warnings

Lynne Peeples - FairWarning
File-This undated file photo from Oregon State University shows a school of yellow tang off the coast of Hawaii. The waters off the Hawaii’s largest island are home to a half-million brightly-colored tropic fish that are scooped up into nets each year and flown across the globe into aquariums from Berlin to Boston. Scientists say the aquarium fishery off the Big Island is among the best managed in the world, but it has nevertheless become the focus of a fight over whether it’s ever appropriate to remove fish from reefs for people to look at and enjoy. (AP Photo/Oregon State University, Bill Walsh,File) NO SALES (AP Photo/Oregon State University, Bill Walsh,File)

The weird and wonderful world of fish

Brittney Borowiec
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