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Sections of 42 diameter sections of steel pipe of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, MVP, lie on wooden blocks, August 31, 2022 in Bent Mountain, Virginia. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

Fossil fuel pipeline endorsed by Biden

Matthew Rozsa
Macro photo of worker bee on honeycomb (Getty Images/Aleksandr Rybalko)

Bees, wasps and hexagonal architecture

Matthew Rozsa
Tick on a leaf (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Ticks spreading brain-swelling illness

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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)

Heart problems from vaccines are rare

Matthew Rozsa
A car is left stranded in widespread flooding as a series of atmospheric river storms melts record amounts of snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on March 23, 2023 near Corcoran, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Global warming will alter La Niña forever

Matthew Rozsa
NASA's Artemis I rocket sits on launch pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 1, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

An astrophysicist on 65 years of NASA

Stephen G. Alexander - The Conversation
The 2011 GOCE model of the Earth's geoid. The colors in the image represent deviations in height (–100 m to +100 m) from an ideal geoid. (European Space Agency/HPF/DLR)

Indian Ocean gravity hole explained

Matthew Rozsa
A view of the parched river bed of the Gardon near the Saint-Nicolas de Campagnac bridge in Saint-Anastasie, France on July 20, 2023. France is faced with the risk of drought as heat waves sweep over Europe. (Mohamad Salaheldin Abdelg Alsayed/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Heatwaves due to climate change: study

Matthew Rozsa
Illustration based on a transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of a SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (red) (Getty Images/JUAN GAERTNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Signs of an increase in COVID-19 cases?

Troy Farah
(Mint Images/Getty Images)

More sustainable waste management

Michaela Barnett, Leidy Klotz, Patrick I. Hancock, Shahzeen Attari - The Conversation
At the centre of this image is the young star V960 Mon, located over 5000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. Dusty material with potential to form planets surrounds the star. (ESO/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Weber et al.)

New image hints how planets form

Nicole Karlis
Melting icebergs are seen on Horseshoe Island in Antarctica, on February 26, 2023. (Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Antarctica melting faster than thought

Matthew Rozsa
'The London Bathing Season,' from Punch, or the London Charivari, June 18, 1859. (The Cartoon Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Climate change could make a Great Stink

Matthew Rozsa
Newborn Baby (Getty Images/Roc Canals)

Breastfeeding cuts infant deaths: study

Nicole Karlis
Red Evil Artificial Intelligence, concept (Getty Images/tampatra)

AI can make politics more deceptive

David E. Clementson
Close-up of yellow crazy ant on green leaf (Getty Images/afe207)

Crazy ants with crazier genetics

Pamela Appea
Birthday Cake With A Ton Of Candles (Getty Images/Ziviani)

Why our longer lifespans pose a problem

Mary Elizabeth Williams
An aerial picture shows bergy bits and growlers floating in front of the Apusiajik glacier, near Kulusuk (aslo spelled Qulusuk), a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality located on the island of the same name on the southeastern shore of Greenland. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

When Greenland was green

Paul Bierman, Tammy Rittenour - The Conversation
Passion in bed (Getty Images/Prostock-Studio)

The science of better orgasms

Rae Hodge
A 4 month old baby girl yawning (Catherine Delahaye via Getty Images)

Is white noise bad for sleepy babies?

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/PhonlamaiPhoto)

Alien contact could be a disaster

William Lempert, Kim TallBear, David Delgado Shorter - The Conversation
The view from Kowloon Peak shows apartment buildings and office blocks lights at night on November 3, 2016 in Hong Kong. (Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images)

Why won't we fix light pollution?

Matthew Rozsa
J Robert Oppenheimer Standing at Blackboard (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

The atomic truth behind "Oppenheimer"

Matthew Rozsa
U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) participates in a meeting of the House Oversight and Reform Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on January 31, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

House UFO hearing to grill Pentagon

Rae Hodge
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