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A mushroom cloud after an atomic blast, 1950s. (Lambert/Getty Images)

A new $10B nuke? No thanks, Pentagon

Rae Hodge
Joro Spider (Getty Images/Gummy Bone)

Joro spiders are invading the US

Matthew Rozsa
This image shows the “moonrise” of the satellite as it emerges from behind asteroid Dinkinesh as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI), one of the most detailed images returned by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft during its flyby of the asteroid binary. (NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOAO)

NASA finds a surprise asteroid

Matthew Rozsa
Man Speaking On Energy and Climate (Getty Images/Laurence Dutton)

Most countries can’t access climate data

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
After her primary care doctor retired in 2020, Anne Withrow, a trans woman in Albuquerque, New Mexico, sought care at Truman Health Services, a clinic specializing in transgender health care at the University of New Mexico. “They said, ‘We have a waiting list.’ A year later they still had a waiting list,” she said. She was eventually seen at a local community-based health center instead. (CECILIA NOWELL FOR KFF HEALTH NEWS)

Transgender refugees flock to New Mexico

Cecilia Nowell - KFF Health News
A doctor is injecting a vaccine to a baby (Getty Images/Karl Tapales)

Why the new RSV shot is hard to find

Nicole Karlis
Man stands with umbrella outside looking at large collection of big alarm clocks drowning in the sea. (Getty Images/mikkelwilliam)

What is a world without time?

Meghan Beaudry
SpaceX, X (formerly known as Twitter), and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks with other delegates during day one of the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park on November 01, 2023 in Bletchley, England. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Musk testing snarky AI bot named Grok

Kelly McClure
Sea stars on ocean floor (Getty Images/Patrick J. Endres)

Starfish are walking heads: Study

Matthew Rozsa
Colorful Plastic Bottle Caps 655465824 (Getty Images/Deanna Kelly)

Chemical recycling a dangerous deception

Joseph Winters - Grist
American shorthair striped cat with a dissatisfied face (Getty Images/Kilito Chan)

New research on getting cat emotions

Matthew Rozsa
Dental floss (Getty Images/Artem Sokolov)

Is your floss toxic?

Nicole Karlis
Hot sun. (chuchart duangdaw via Getty Images)

Earth heating up faster than predicted

Matthew Rozsa
A Camptosaurus (L) and an Allosaurus skeletons are displayed on November 13, 2018 at the Artcurial auction house in Paris. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Dinosaur cannibalism was common: study

Nicole Karlis
A gull picks up a piece of trash that washed up along the bank of the San Gabriel River just a few hundred yards from the Pacific Ocean in Seal Beach on Tuesday morning, December 13, 2022. (Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Democrats unveil plan for plastics

Joseph Winters - Grist
Chinook Salmon jumping (Getty Images/Supercaliphotolistic)

The billion-dollar salmon vacuum

Tony Schick - ProPublica
A painting depicting Dr Jonas Salk in his lab working on the Polio vaccine in 1955 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Illustration by Ed Vebell/Getty Images)

Where did vaccine mistrust come from?

Matthew Rozsa
Doctors in surgery (Getty Images/Paul Harizan)

Second pig heart recipient dies

Rae Hodge
Brown bear crossing road in front of car (Getty Images/Westend61)

How our roads have become so invasive

M.R. O'Connor - Undark
The Colorado Rockies groundskeeper carefully guides the riding mower in the outfield at Coors Field before the game agains the New York Mets June 21, 2018. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Why lawncare is bad for the environment

Tik Root - Grist
Laura Ingraham speaks during the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio on Wednesday, July 20, 2016. (Christopher Evans/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)

Ingraham schooled: "I stand corrected"

Rae Hodge
Comet (Getty Images/Ricardo Filipe/500px)

"Devil comet" to swing by Earth in 2024

Rae Hodge
Astronaut Gui Haichao is out of the return capsule of the Shenzhou-16 manned spaceship at the Dongfeng landing site on October 31, 2023 in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. (Wang Xiaobo/VCG via Getty Images)

Chinese astronauts return after 6 months

Rae Hodge
Engineer working on checking equipment in solar power plant with galaxies in the background (Getty Images/Pramote Polyamate)

Coming soon: Solar panel space farms

Rae Hodge
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