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People wearing masks walk along the Hudson River as smoke shrouds the skyline of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center as the sun rises in New York City on June 8, 2023. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

Failure in New York's air quality crisis

Lylla Younes - Grist
Rhesus macaque (Macaca Mulatta) — (Getty Images/Adeel_Ahmad93)

Monkey masturbation and human evolution

Matilda Brindle - The Conversation
A person looks out at the New York City skyline as it's covered with haze and smoke from Canada wildfires on June 7, 2023 in Weehawken, New Jersey. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

The Canadian wildfire crisis explained

Troy Farah
The Pentagon (Getty Images/Kiyoshi Tanno)

Whistleblower details UFO spacecraft

Rae Hodge
Little girl holding smartphone (Getty Images/Marizza)

Smartphone dilemma is a trick question

Nicole Karlis
Canceled stamp from Germany featuring genetic scientist Gregor Mendel (Getty/traveler1116)

No one listened to Gregor Mendel

Matthew Rozsa
Close-up of Syringes in a row (Getty Images)

The anti-vaxxer threat keeps spreading

Nicole Karlis
Jack Dorsey speaks during the crypto-currency conference Bitcoin 2021 Convention on June 4, 2021. (MARCO BELLO/AFP via Getty Images)

Twitter had a bad case of the Mondays

Rae Hodge
Different ways of thinking processing (Getty Images)

Neurotypicals: An explainer

Matthew Rozsa
Jester - portrait of a medieval court fool, 15th century (Print by R. Kellerhoven/Culture Club/Getty Images)

Rare medieval comedy scripts discovered

Matthew Rozsa
Abraham Lincoln | Pigs (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Abraham Lincoln, pig torturer?

Matthew Rozsa
Vaccines in an upward line graph (Getty Images/Andriy Onufriyenko)

Next COVID vax might drop OG strain

Nicole Karlis
Two pteranodons flying (Getty Images/estt)

The oldest pterosaur ever was discovered

Matthew Rozsa
Person scratching their arm and wrist (Getty Images/Ake Ngiamsanguan)

Why eczema is still such a mystery

Nicole Karlis
Group of People with differing brain patterns (Getty Images)

Why signs of autism are hard to pin down

Matthew Rozsa
Killer Whale near a boat (Getty Images/Chase Dekker Wild-Life Images)

Are the attacking orcas bound to lose?

Nicole Karlis
Samuel Altman, CEO of OpenAI, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law May 16, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Is AI really this big of a threat?

Rae Hodge
Butterfly specimens in research lab (Getty Images/Inti St Clair)

Many new species are already gone

Katarina Zimmer - Undark
Neuralink logo is displayed on mobile with founder Elon Musk seen on screen in the background. (Photo Illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

FDA greenlights Musk's Neuralink trials

David Tuffley - The Conversation
A selection of deep-sea specimens from the Natural History Museum in London's collection. (Trustees of the Natural History Museum London)

5,000 new species threatened by mining

Matthew Rozsa
Engineer at recycling center (Getty Images/Pramote Polyamate)

Plastic causing "ecological disruption"

Matthew Rozsa
Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, April 15, 2023. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Why rural abortion battlegrounds matter

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez - KFF Health News
Robot playing chess with human (Getty Images/xijian)

AI reflects hyberbolic history of tech

Luke Fernandez
This handout photo dated 31 October 2002 shows an aerial view of the new elevated station (bottom-C) being built at the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. (DAVID MCCARTHY/AFP via Getty Images)

Living large at the South Pole

John Messick
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