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View of Mount Vesuvius from the ground of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii (Getty Images/Andrea Pucci)

How volcano victim's brain turned glass

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Planet Mars (Getty Images//Cobalt88)

We now know why Mars is so red

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Earth on fire (Getty Images/sankai)

Can humans wipe out all life on Earth?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Doctors examine an x-ray of a patient who has tuberculosis (Najlah Feanny/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why we're still fighting tuberculosis

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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Glyptodon (Getty Images/estt)

The Miocene era and our future climate

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Dog nose between pink cherry blossoms (Getty Images/Ve Shandor/500px)

Why smell and sight are close friends

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Clicking The Cancel Button (Getty Images/SEAN GLADWELL)

Can "Click to Cancel" survive Trump?

Jackie Lam
Cows at the Cornell Teaching Dairy Barn at Cornell University, and a member of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Migrants on the front lines of bird flu

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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A laptop keyboard and representation of Dogecoin cryptocurrency (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Meme coins: Fun hobby or wild gamble?

Daria Solovieva
A Man from Pasi community (a Dalit or untouchable community of India) serving toddy (Palm wine), a traditional alcoholic drink made from the sap of palm trees. (Pradeep Gaur/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Lessons from Bihar, India's booze ban

Niko Vorobyov
This photo illustration shows the DeepSeek app on a mobile phone. (MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images)

DeepSeek: Less AI drain on environment?

Matthew Rozsa
Ecstasy tablets, with an imprint of the country of Australia (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why Australia has embraced psychedelics

Niko Vorobyov
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A burned building on Sunset Boulevard during the Palisades Fire on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, in Pacific Palisades, CA. (Photo by (Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

A history of California's fire struggles

James Thornton Harris
Two so-called sun stones, which are small flat shale pieces with finely incised patterns and sun motifs. They are known only from the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. (National Museum of Denmark)

"Sun stones" to ward off deadly volcano

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump showing a signed executive order. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Goodbye, DEI? The diversity era's ending

Daria Solovieva
DNA mirrored (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How mirror life poses existential risks

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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Sending money through phones (Getty Images/sefa ozel)

Cash advance apps: The new loan sharks?

Cara Michelle Smith
The Universe Observing Itself (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How reality is shaped by our observation

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Woman holding a handful of vitamins (Getty Images/Strauss/Curtis)

Supplements shouldn't be this complex

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Man's hands in protective gloves searching bread on empty shelves in a groceries store (Getty Images/ArtMarie)

Meet the bird flu pandemic preppers

Nicole Karlis
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Digital nose (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Is Smell-O-Vision finally here?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Geyser on Jupiter's moon Europa (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Why icy alien oceans could harbor life

Matthew Rozsa
British singer-songwriter George Michael, London, 2nd April 1987. (Michael Putland/Getty Images)

The timeless impact of "Father Figure"

Nardos Haile
Demonstrators protest and argue outside the U.S. Supreme Court, March 26, 2024. (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

How abortion rights landscape changed

Nicole Karlis
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