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Mifepristone (Mifeprex) (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Conflicting rulings for abortion pill

Nicole Karlis
ADHD medication on a counter (Getty Images/David Benedict)

ADHD patients forced to take drug tests

Arielle Zionts - KFF Health News
Choppy Waves, Stormy Waters On The Ocean (Getty Images/oporkka)

A vital current system is about to die

Matthew Rozsa
Microchip (Getty Images/Narumon Bowonkitwanchai)

Microchip gold rush in Oregon

Max Graham - Grist
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The anxious, sad, young female patient wears her gown as she waits in the hospital room (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

When cancer meets lack of insurance

Charlotte Huff - KFF Health News
Patients rest in a hallway in the overloaded Emergency Room area at Providence St. Mary Medical Center on January 27, 2021 in Apple Valley, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Doctors are disappearing from ERs

Brett Kelman, Blake Farmer - KFF Health News
Computer room and workers ca. 1980. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The precursor to ChatGPT from 1966

Karla Erickson
Traffic idling on forested road, plumes of exhaust funnel out into the air (Getty Images/AscentXmedia)

A world without cars is possible

Matthew Rozsa
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Man pulling stubborn donkey (Getty Images/Tony Arruza)

The psychology of chronic stubbornness

Matthew Rozsa
Young woman blurry reflection on the damaged mirror (Getty images/Rafael Elias)

Low awareness of body dysmorphic disorde

Eva Fisher, Fugen Neziroglu, Jamie Feusner - The Conversation
A little boy and scary shadow of hand (Getty Images/Tatiana Maksimova)

The mistaken narrative about child abuse

Teresa Huizar
Bagel with lox and cream cheese (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

Poppy seeds affect drug test results

Gary Reisfield - The Conversation
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Close-Up Of Woman Smoking Marijuana Joint (Getty Images/Mayara Klingner )

Marijuana has risks in pregnancy

Hilary A. Marusak - The Conversation
Concept of scientist exploring human brain. (Getty Images/Feodora Chiosea)

Do people just like women better?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Baby formula shortage, empty shelves at Target due to product recall and supply chain issues, Queens, New York. (Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Dark consequences to formula shortage

Jessica A. Marino, Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook - The Conversation
A dried out bank of a nearly water empty dam is pictured on a farm in Piket Bo-berg, Piketberg, north of Cape Town, on March 7, 2018 as a result of a three-year-long drought. (WIKUS DE WET/AFP via Getty Images)

The world after water

Matthew Rozsa
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Director of the Christian Defense Coalition Rev. Patrick Mahoney speaks as a small group of anti-abortion activists rally against the availability of abortion pills at neighborhood pharmacies outside of a CVS Pharmacy on January 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

FDA approval of abortion pill suspended

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/oversnap)

New study links "free sugar" to cancer

Matthew Rozsa
Transgender flags (Getty Images)

The US' history of gender-affirming care

G. Samantha Rosenthal - The Conversation
Empty xylazine bottle found on the streets of Philadelphia (Christopher Moraff / Narcomedia)

What is xylazine?

Kavita Babu - The Conversation
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Hany Farid
A Capuchin monkey rests on a tree branch in the Aurora Zoo in Guatemala. (Camilo Freedman/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The magic tricks for monkeys study

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/metamorworks)

Did an AI harvest your Facebook photos?

Nicole Karlis
A contractor walks through Clippinger Chevrolet in West Covina Saturday morning August 23, 2003 where vandals torched and vandalized sport utility vehicles early Friday morning. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

Eco-activism comes to mainstream fiction

Kate Yoder - Grist
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