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A group of volunteers removing trash from the side of the Truckee river in Mustang Ranch Trail. (Ty ONeil/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Biden launches climate corps program

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Spurred ceratina carpenter bee (Ceratina calcarata) (Getty Images / Christopher Laszlo Bonis / 500px)

Bee health linked to good parenting

Matthew Rozsa
Dopaminergic neurons are brain cells whose primary neurotransmitter is dopamine. (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Dopamine is often oversimplified

Kimberlee D'Ardenne - The Conversation
Rescue teams assist in relief work in Libya's eastern city of Derna September 17, 2023 following deadly flash floods. (KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images)

Libyan floods worsened by climate change

Matthew Rozsa
Headstones and American flags are seen at the Arlington National Cemetery, United States military cemetery in Virginia, United States on May 29, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Is America a death cult?

Troy Farah
Clinician looking out window in a hospital (Getty Images/shironosov)

Gender-affirming care docs under threat

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A museum employee looks at a Dodo in display at the 'Extinction: Not the End of the World?' exhibition at The Natural History Museum on February 5, 2013 in London, England. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Experts warn of a "biological holocaust"

Matthew Rozsa
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters is seen in Washington D.C., United States on September 15, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

NASA: No evidence UFOs are aliens, sorry

Chris Impey - The Conversation
Colony of Little Brown Bats (Getty Images/Joe McDonald)

Prevent the next pandemic. Avoid bats

Steve Osofsky, Susan Lieberman - Undark
Young upset man sitting on floor (Getty Images/urbazon)

Could panic attacks be totally normal?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Pink flower inside a book (Getty Images/Alicia Llop)

A brief history of the word vagina

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Medical Marijuana (Getty Images/FilippoBacci)

The complexity of cannabis and autism

Matthew Rozsa
Rushing ambulance at night, US (Getty Images/Marco_Piunti)

Study maps overdose crisis' fourth wave

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Alessandra Sampaio (C), widow of British journalist Dom Phillips, participates in a demonstration in tribute to Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, murdered while on a reporting mission in the Amazon rainforest one year ago, at the Copacabana neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 5, 2023. (MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP via Getty Images)

Land defenders killed every two days

Lyric Aquino - Grist
Teenage Girl Meditating in Her Room (Getty Images/Fiordaliso)

Why being young is getting worse

Richard Eckersley
Hunting Amazons, illustration from 19th century (Getty Images/clu)

Prehistoric women were hunters, too

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Doctor walking through hospital corridor (Getty Images/Johner Images)

Abortion patients flee to Illinois

Kristen Schorsch - KFF Health News
A view of devastation in disaster zones after the floods caused by the Storm Daniel ravaged the region in Derna, Libya on September 12, 2023. (Abdullah Mohammed Bonja/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Libyan floods fueled by climate change

Matthew Rozsa
A healthcare employee prepares a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. (Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

CDC recommends new COVID boosters

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s high resolution, near-infrared look at Herbig-Haro 211 reveals exquisite detail of the outflow of a young star, an infantile analogue of our Sun. (ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, Tom Ray (Dublin))

James Webb captures new baby star

Elizabeth Hlavinka
In this photo illustration, Chat GPT logo seen displayed on a smartphone with Artifical Intelligence (AI) symbols in the background. (Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Dr. Google meets its match: Dr. ChatGPT

Andrew Leonard - KFF Health News
Marine biologist Greg Lewbart holds a marine iguana. (Courtesy of Passion Planet Ltd.)

How animals are impacted by climate

Matthew Rozsa
A doctor with the Saxony-Anhalt Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, takes a swab from a patient at the fever outpatient clinic in Halle/Saale. (Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Questions about the Pirola COVID variant

Suresh V. Kuchipudi - The Conversation
Mexican journalist and ufologist Jaime Maussan (Jaime Nogales/Medios y Media/Getty Images)

Does Mexico have mummified aliens?

Matthew Rozsa
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