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Ashwagandha superfood powder and root (Getty Images/eskymaks)

Can ashwagandha really relieve stress?

Tabular iceberg floats in a stormy green sea, Southern Ocean, Antarctica (Getty Images/Jeff Miller)

Greener oceans due to climate change

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan prepares to testify before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on July 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The FTC chair taking on Big Tech

A light, cheap space telescope design would make it possible to put many individual units in space at once. Katie Yung, Daniel Apai /University of Arizona and AllThingsSpace /SketchFab, CC BY-ND (SketchFab)

Next gen telescope after James Webb

Daniel Apai - The Conversation

Medical team in a hurry carrying an organ transplants box by ambulance, with heart rate monitor (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How dead is "dead enough"?

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Cans of Diet Coke in a supermarket, as an artificial sweetener commonly used in thousands of products including diet fizzy drinks, ice cream and chewing gum is to be listed as posing a possible cancer risk to humans, according to reports. (Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images)

Aspartame's cancer risks explained

NASA's Perseverance (Mars 2020) stores rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet's surface for future missions to retrieve in the area known as Jezero crater on the planet Mars. (NASA/Getty Images)

Mars rover finds signatures of life

Birth control pills (Getty Images/Jamie Atlas)

Will OTC birth control be affordable?

Tylenol, acetaminophen (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Is Tylenol linked to autism and ADHD?

Teresa Carr - Undark

Sunscreen on orange background. Plastic bottle of sun protection and white sun-shaped cream. (ADragan via Getty Images) (ADragan via Getty Images)

What everyone gets wrong about sunscreen

Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, Elon Musk attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre on June 16, 2023 in Paris, France. (Chesnot/Getty Images)

Elon Musk launches new AI company

Ohio EPA and EPA contractors collect soil and air samples from the derailment site on March 9, 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio. Cleanup efforts continue after a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed causing an environmental disaster. (Michael Swensen/Getty Images)

Railroad towns after East Palestine

John McCracken - Grist

Tyler Jovic, of Montpelier, carries his neighbor's dog to dry ground on Tuesday afternoon, July 11, 2023. Vermont has been under a State of Emergency since Sunday evening as heavy rains continued through Tuesday morning causing flooding across the state. (John Tully for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Northeast flooding triggered by rains

Man hugging dog (Getty Images/Carol Yepes)

How dog and human cancer are similar

Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Meta can suck my data: Say no to Threads

James Webb Space Telescope looking at galaxies (Photo illustration by NASA)

An astronomer on James Webb's first year

Sen. Bernie Sanders addresses a rally of striking British workers at Trade Union Congress headquarters on Aug. 31, 2022, in London. (Guy Smallman/Getty Images)

Sanders: Alzheimer's drug too expensive

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

Tap water in a clear glass drinking glass in West Reading, PA Tuesday afternoon June 15, 2021. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

EU to capitulate to "forever chemicals"?

An artist impression of exoplanet LTT9779b orbiting its host star. The planet is around the size of Neptune and reflects 80% of the light shone on it, making it the largest known “mirror” in the Universe. (ESA/Ricardo Ramírez Reyes/Universidad de Chile)

New planet is universe's largest mirror

A gorilla skeleton at a Museum of Natural History in Italy, circa 1955. (Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche/Getty Images)

Evolution dispels the "alpha male" myth

Goldfish enticement (Getty Images/Chris Collins)

Scam science: How to outsmart the con

Mary Elizabeth Williams

The surface of Titan, Saturns largest moon (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

How rivers on Titan and Mars flow

Dry soil of the partially dried-up river bed of the Rhine is pictured in Duesseldorf, western Germany, on July 25, 2022, as Europe experiences a heatwave. (INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)

European 2022 heat wave killed 61,000

Are AI detectors biased?

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