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Tobacco hornworm caterpillar with wasp pupae on back (Getty Images/Ed Reschke)

Parasites: Life's greatest success story

Troy Farah
A worker harvests salt from an evaporation pond at a salt factory on May 14, 2021 in Leizhou, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province of China. (Zhan Youbing/VCG via Getty Images)

Earth is getting too salty, experts warn

Matthew Rozsa
Teenage girl practicing EFT or Emotional freedom technique (Getty Images/Madeleine_Steinbach)

Can you EFT tap your anxiety away?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Lab Mouse (Getty Images/JacobStudio)

In a first, mice embryos grown in space

Matthew Rozsa
Prescription drugs on a silver platter (Getty images/Rubberball/Mike Kemp)

Ready for bespoke doctor visits?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Amazon river dolphin jumps out of water (Getty Images/Cavan Images)

Saving dolphins from climate change

Matthew Rozsa
People are wearing face masks during the fifth wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Krakow, Poland. January 18, 2022. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

JN.1: the next COVID-19 winter variant?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Happy senior man reading next to the Aegean sea (Getty Images/Anastasija Vujic)

Longevity advice from the blue zones

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Set of dentures (Getty Images/Bart_Kowski)

Let your teeth be a little yellow

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Woman sleeping peaceful on cloud (Getty Images/urbazon)

How marijuana affects your dreams

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Alien and milky way in the night (Getty Images/Apostoli Rossella)

Would aliens really want to invade us?

Matthew Rozsa
Female chimpanzee (Common Chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes) is relaxing in the ground in the jungle in Kibale National Park in Uganda (Getty Images/guenterguni)

Chimps experience menopause, study finds

Matthew Rozsa
Stormy sea (Getty Images/da-kuk)

The impact of hurricanes on marine life

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Collared Peccary or Javelina in the grass (Getty Images/G Parekh)

On the javelina golf course guerillas

Rae Hodge
Kendra Buresch, senior research assistant, touches Marco Polo, an octopus that is checking out the top of the tank at the Marine Biological Lab. (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Is octopus experimentation ethical?

Matthew Rozsa
In this handout image provided by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, the International Space Station and the docked space shuttle Endeavour orbit Earth during Endeavour's final sortie on May 23, 2011 in Space. (Paolo Nespoli - ESA/NASA via Getty Images)

Russian cosmonauts dodge coolant leak

Rae Hodge
Artwork of the so-called ring of fire. This is a region of tectonic plate boundaries around the Pacific Ocean, where earthquakes and volcanoes are common. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The case of the missing tectonic plate

Rae Hodge
Governor of California Gavin Newsom attends a press conference in Beijing on October 25, 2023. (WANG ZHAO/AFP via Getty Images)

California expands paid sick days

Don Thompson
Cigarette and E-Cigarette (Getty Images/Martina Paraninfi)

E-cigs necessary to meet cancer goals

Earl D. Fowlkes, Jr.
Parish's Daisy (Erigeron parishii) (Photo courtesy of Chelsea Vollmer/USFS)

Rare wildflowers protected in California

Matthew Rozsa
Tired healthcare worker sitting on the floor (Getty Images/bymuratdeniz)

Doctors with long COVID feel left behind

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Antarctica, ice on the sea (Getty Images/Mantas Vidutis/500px)

Earth enters "uncharted territory"

Matthew Rozsa
Woman gliding through the web on a skateboard (Getty Images/We Are)

Do we live in a computer simulation?

Melvin M. Vopson - The Conversation
Gentoo Penguin and Skua on Cuverville Island in Antarctica (Getty Images/Mark Edward Harris)

Bird flu hits Antarctica

Matthew Rozsa
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