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In this photo illustration, a Google logo is seen on a smartphone with a Microsoft logo in the background. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Microsoft accuses Google of monopoly

Rae Hodge
Pregnant woman at her doctor appointment prenatal care (Getty Images/Adene Sanchez)

The silent pain crisis afflicting women

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Katalin Karikó speaks during a press conference after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine with Drew Weissman at The University of Pennsylvania on October 2, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)

Lessons from a Nobel Prize winner

Matthew Rozsa
Woman with stomach pain (Getty Images/martin-dm)

Rare Ozempic side effects emerging

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)

NASA's plan to deorbit the ISS explained

Rae Hodge
Post Apocalyptic Urban Landscape (Getty Images/Bulgac)

Human extinction as a real possibility

Émile P. Torres
Exorcism (H. Christoph/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Why are exorcisms on the rise?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Western lowland gorilla (Getty Images/Anup Shah)

Gorillas are under extreme threat

Assaf Levy
The Elephant in the cave (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Supercomputer under the zoo vanishes

Rae Hodge
A young boy stands at their home full with mud and debris after the flood caused by Ulua River's overfloow due to heavy heavy rains of Hurricane Iota in Potrerillos municipality near San Pedro Sula, Honduras on November 20, 2020. (WENDELL ESCOTO/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change displaced 43 million kids

Matthew Rozsa
Psychedelic drug, concept (Getty Images/wildpixel)

How psychedelics change the brain

Edmund S. Higgins - The Conversation
Father and child playing with blocks (Getty Images/AleksandarNakic)

Why your brain needs more play: Experts

Elizabeth Hlavinka
The researchers think that infrared light particles (photons) from the poles of the pulsar are boosted to gamma-ray energies (blue) by fast electrons. (Science Communication Lab for DESY)

Vera pulsar breaks a new energy record

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A nurse prepares an injection of the Moderna dose vaccine on 26 September, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. (Alejandro Martinez Velez/Europa Press via Getty Images)

Flu-COVID combo vaccines on the horizon

Troy Farah
Kaiser Permanente employees, joined by Union members representing the workers, walk the picket line in Los Angeles, California on October 4, 2023. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Kaiser health care workers on strike

Michael McQuarrie - The Conversation
A man is seen walking on a foggy warm sunrise during a new heat record in The Netherlands. In Nijmegen, on September 10th, 2023. (Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

September sets yet another heat record

Max Graham - Grist
Surgeon wearing a medical mask (Getty Images/pipat wongsawang)

Should hospitals be bringing back masks?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Medical syringe and vaccine with cash (Getty Images/Yulia Naumenko)

Big Pharma slowed vaccine development

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - ProPublica
A covid-19 vaccine is seen with the Novavax logo in the background. (Photo Illustration by Nikos Pekiaridis/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Novavax COVID-19 vaccine approved

Elizabeth Hlavinka
This illustration shows a messy, chaotic galaxy undergoing bursts of star formation. (ESA/NASA/L. Calçada)

Science explains "impossible" galaxies

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Mercury (Getty Images/themotioncloud)

Shrinking planet Mercury getting smaller

David Rothery - The Conversation
Portrait of a young woman, with the shadow of a rose (Getty Images/Westend61)

The study of smell loss still struggles

Hannah Docter-Loeb - Undark
Monk Parakeet (Getty Images/iculizard)

Parrots have "voiceprints" like humans

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Amazon River Dolphin (Getty Images/Michel VIARD)

Climate change kills Amazon dolphins

Matthew Rozsa
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