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A group of Holstein cows wait to go back to their barn after milking at Sheepscot Valley Farm, an organic dairy farm in Whitefield. (Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

Second human bird flu case in Michigan

Matthew Rozsa
Distant silhouette of a person standing on rocks below Northern Lights (Aurora borealis), Iceland (Getty Images/mariuskasteckas)

Are UFOs fueling a new religion?

Troy Farah
Juvenile Eight-banded butterflyfish (Chaetodon octofasciatus) take shelter among the branches of a bleached Staghorn coral (Acropora sp.) in a reef affected by coral bleaching on May 08, 2024 in Trat, Thailand. (Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Images)

Coral is going "haywire" due to climate

Matthew Rozsa
OpenAI logo is seen displayed on a mobile phone screen, smoke in the background. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Silicon Valley's "coercive" sex parties

Rae Hodge
Joe Biden | Marijuana (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden's half-step on weed isn't enough

Maritza Perez Medina, Kassandra Frederique
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 17: Governor of Massachusetts Maura Healey is interviewed by the media during the 127th Boston Marathon on April 17, 2023 on Boylston Street in Boston, MA. ((Photo by Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images))

Science and religion find middle ground

Rae Hodge
Man stressed out while being surrounded by people pointing at him (Getty Images/PeopleImages)

Is "sociopath" an overused term?

Matthew Rozsa
A Woman sitting at a table, upset. The first symptoms of incipient menopause are hypotension or hypertension, hot flashes. (Getty Images/Fiordaliso)

Gen X left in the dark with menopause

Nicole Karlis
Manager of overdose prevention secures covers on returned full sharps containers at the 6th Street Harm Reduction Center operated by the SF AIDS Foundation in San Francisco, Calif. on Friday, June 2, 2017. (Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Overdose crisis takes toll on responders

Elizabeth Hlavinka
DNA molecule and virus particles (Getty Images/KTSDesign/SCIENCEPHOTOLIBRARY)

Viruses are doing mysterious things

Libusha Kelly - The Conversation
Ranking Member Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) speaking during during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security hearing on "A Review of the President's FY2025 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security" at the U.S. Capitol on April 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Abortion surveillance is already here

Nicole Karlis
Hundreds of advocates for marijuana legalization rally and smoke pot outside the White House in Washington, D.C. on April 02, 2016. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Biden proposes to reschedule cannabis

Rae Hodge
Brood XIX, known as the Great Southern Brood, cicadas hold onto blades of grass on the campus of the University of North Carolina on May 1, 2024 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

A trillion cicadas will emerge soon

Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco - Grist
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft sets off to collide with an asteroid in the world's first full-scale planetary defense test mission on Wednesday, Nov. 24, from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Designing effective asteroid swatters

Theo Nicitopoulos - Undark
People sitting in a doctor office waiting room. (Getty Images/SolStock)

A simple solution to the doctor shortage

Nicole Wadsworth
White Sussex chicken among the flowers (Getty Images/daphnusia)

Study finds chickens may blush

Rae Hodge
Bull shark swims in Gold Coast Australia (Getty Images/chameleonseye)

Climate change driving deadly cold waves

Matthew Rozsa
Package with boxes of Mifepristone (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Abortion numbers rose nationwide: report

Nicole Karlis
A pod of Killer Whales making an attack in the wild waters (Getty Images/Ron Sanford)

Orcas sink a yacht, continuing spree

Matthew Rozsa
Volcanic exoplanet, illustration (NASA, ESA, CSA, Dani Player)

Exoplanet exploding with molten lava

Matthew Rozsa
A juvenile male Bornean orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii, hangs from a tree branch in Gunung Palung National Park. (Getty Images/seng chye teo)

Scientists decode orangutan language

Matthew Rozsa
Stressed nurse standing in elevator (Getty Images/JGI/Tom Grill)

Med students avoid abortion ban states

Nicole Karlis
A chimpanzee (pan troglodytes) uses tools to get fruit from a box (Getty Images/Vincent_St_Thomas)

Chimps continue to learn about tools

Matthew Rozsa
Doctor filling a prescription container with marijuana (Getty Images/Juanmonino)

Cannabis and shrooms for chronic pain?

Kevin F. Boehnke - The Conversation
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