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Planet Earth and moon from space (Getty Images/photovideostock/NASA)

Earth is exceeding its planetary bounds

Matthew Rozsa
This illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18 b could look like based on science data. K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the habitable zone and lies 120 light years from Earth. (NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI))

An exoplanet covered in oceans?

Matthew Rozsa
Male figure walking through maze (Getty Images/OsakaWayne Studios)

Do new Alzheimer's drugs actually help?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Volunteers are seen collecting waste and plastic during the cleaning of San Andrés Beach ahead of World Environment Day on June 5th. (Jesus Merida/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Is "plastic neutral" greenwashing?

Joseph Winters - Grist
U.S. Capitol (Getty Images/Erik Pronske Photography)

Republicans move to slash CDC budget

Andy Miller, Sam Whitehead - KFF Health News
A healthcare employee prepares a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Dennis Avenue Health Center in Silver Spring, Maryland on November 21, 2022. (Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

New round of COVID boosters approved

Troy Farah
Buildings still smolder days after a wildfire gutted downtown Lahaina. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Record-breaking year of climate disaster

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Young woman in front of the refrigerator at night (Getty Images/LordHenriVoton)

Night owls beware: Diabetes risk is high

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Pine trees have died and fallen killed by acid rain (Getty Images/wcjohnston)

Was acid rain truly a success story?

Matthew Rozsa
An artist’s impression of the quasar Pōniuāʻena. A quasar is a galactic object with a supermassive black hole in the center. (International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld/CC BY 4.0)

Black holes may grow up in neighborhoods

Jaclyn Champagne - The Conversation
An American Airlines Airbus A319 airplane takes off past the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, January 11, 2023. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

An aviation disaster waiting to happen

Rae Hodge
Reconstruction of the 25 million year old Ditjimanka Lumakoala blackae, featuring (left to right) the wallaby-sized herbivore Muramura williamsi, extinct koala relative Madakoala devisi and the calf-sized ilariid (Ilaria lawsone). (Illustration courtesy of Peter Schouten)

An ancient koala discovered in Australia

Matthew Rozsa
Baby sleeping in their crib (Getty Images/stock_colors)

Babies should sleep alone, not with toys

Colleen DeGuzman - KFF Health News
Man in parka, hat and scarf frozen from the cold (Getty Images/cmannphoto)

This is why you're always cold

Mary Elizabeth Williams
UFOs flying in the sky, illustration (Getty Images/KTSDESIGN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

All about UFOs and alien intelligence

Rae Hodge
Vials of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Poor countries face vaccine inequity

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Cute dog with guilty face (Getty Images/Capuski)

Do animals feel shame? It depends

Matthew Rozsa
Young woman hugging her wife holding a pregnancy test in the bathroom at home (Getty Images/FG Trade)

LGBTQ people face barriers to IVF

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Herbert Reul (2nd from left, CDU), Minister of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia, controls the robot Hund Spot from Boston Dynamics at the opening of the police's new "Innovation Lab" at the Digitalkontor. (Rolf Vennenbernd/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Robot police dogs are on patrol

Rod McCullom - Undark
Earth as viewed from Mars surface, concept (Getty Images/Nzoka John)

Should we keep outer space "wild?"

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A deforested and burnt area is seen on a stretch of the BR-230 (Transamazonian highway) in Humaitá, Amazonas State, Brazil, on September 16, 2022. (MICHAEL DANTAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Amazon deforestation continues to drop

Tik Root - Grist
Sick woman working from home at laptop (Getty Images/Songsak rohprasit)

Why your body needs time for "Recovery"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

On Ukraine, Musk is Benedict Arnold

Rae Hodge
Dog teeth growling, close-up (Getty Images/Виталий Куликов)

CDC: Deaths by dog bites are on the rise

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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