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Mushrooms And Mental Health (Getty Images/wildpixel)

How the brain makes its own toad venom

Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, surrounded by birds on a beach in Denmark on October 2, 1966. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

The killer bird swarm behind "The Birds"

A view of the World Bank building October 5, 2000 in Washington, DC. The World Bank bank lends money to developing countries around the world. (Per-Anders Pettersson/ Getty Images)

Malpass resigns amid climate controversy

Brett Marsh - Grist

Two scientists sitting inside a laboratory discussing their research. (Getty Images/Hinterhaus Productions)

The "citizen scientist" generation rises

Mary Elizabeth Williams

People react as white nationalist Richard Spencer, who popularized the term "alt-right" speaks at the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on October 19, 2017 in Gainesville, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The right-wing is ascendant on campus

A.F. Lewis, Christopher T. Conner

A view of high voltage transmission towers on February 21, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Millions of Texans lost their power when winter storm Uri hit the state and knocked out coal, natural gas and nuclear plants that were unprepared for the freezing temperatures brought on by the storm. Wind turbines that provide an estimated 24 percent of energy to the state became inoperable when they froze. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Mainstreaming "electrify everything"

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist

Dakota Access Pipeline (Getty Images)

Pipeline company paid off police

Alleen Brown, John McCracken - Grist

Rehabilitation centre room prepared for a group therapy session. (Getty Images/SolStock)

Recovery doesn't have to look like A.A.

Peter Grinspoon

Workers clocking in at 10 pm, at the start of the night shift at the Philips electrical works in Mitcham, London, March 04, 1947. (Keystone/Getty Images)

Did electric lighting ruin our sleep?

This video screenshot released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) shows the site of a derailed freight train in East Palestine, Ohio, the United States. (NTSB/Handout via Xinhua/Getty Images)

Oil refinery, owned by Exxon Mobil (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Big Oil backs out of climate promises

Kate Yoder - Grist

In an aerial view, floodwaters cover an agricultural area after the Salinas River overflowed its banks on January 13, 2023 in Salinas, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Homes in flood zones greatly overvalued

Zoya Teirstein - Grist

3D illustration of white damaged sperm cells swimming (Getty Images/Christoph Burgstedt)

The race for a male birth control drug

A picture taken on December 6, 2016 shows chickens at a henhouse near Loon-Plage. France raised its risk level for avian flu to "high" after new cases of the "highly pathogenic" H5N8 strain of the virus were detected (PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images)

New bird flu outbreak spreads to mammals

Zoya Teirstein - Grist

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Can Congress fix an 1872 mining law?

Blanca Begert - Grist

Astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. (NASA/CXO/University College London/W. Dunn et al; Optical: W.M. Keck Observatory)

Uranus mission won't happen till 2040s

Bird Flying By Window (Getty Images/Lucia Hisatsuga/EyeEm)

Prevent birds from slamming into windows

This photo taken on April 16, 2010 shows a giant NASA science balloon being inflated at the launch site near Alice Springs. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Why aliens wouldn't spy with balloons

Drone footage shows the freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, U.S., February 6, 2023 in this screengrab obtained from a handout video released by the NTSB. (National Transportation Safety Board/WikiCommons)

The major public health disaster in Ohio

Mifepristone (Mifeprex) and Misoprostol, the two drugs used in a medication abortion (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Prepping for a new post-Roe reality

Couple in bed holding hands passionately (Getty Images/Sadeugra)

Why did humans evolve orgasms?

The Sparkler galaxy provides a snap-shot of an infant Milky Way as it accretes mass over cosmic time. This image shows an artist impression of our Milky Way galaxy in its youth. (James Josephides/Swinburne University)

Mini Milky Way? NASA spots a new galaxy

Stray Dog Lying On Sidewalk (Getty Images/Pradeep Kumar/EyeEm)

Abandoned stray dogs experience PTSD

Cat Allergy (Getty Images/elenaleonova)

Would you give up your cat for love?

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