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Topic: deep dive (page 4)

Massive black holes in nebula (Getty Images/ sakkmesterke)

Why dark matter's mysteries persist

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Ceremony for Christmas Eve by Birket Foster, 1872. The yule log, an illustration to the poem by 17th century English poet Robert Herrick. (Culture Club/Getty Images)

The real war on Christmas 400 years ago

Nicholas Liu
King of the Bean is a mock royal celebration during the time of Epiphany, a traditional Christian celebration. Illustration published 1863. (Getty Images/Christine_Kohler)

The real medieval 12 Days of Christmas

Nicholas Liu
Pruning the Family Tree (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

Cutting off MAGA Mom and Dad

Amanda Marcotte
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Digital Brain Upload (Getty Images/Yuichiro Chino)

Uploading the brain to live forever

Matthew Rozsa
Green kratom powder, capsule and beverage (Getty Images/Betka82)

Kratom is a "blessing and a curse"

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Rupert Murdoch (Neil Mockford/GC Images/Getty Images)

The battle over Murdoch's media empire

Cara Michelle Smith
Diane Wilson patrolling Cox's Creek (Max Loeb)

How a fisher took on Big Plastic and won

Matthew Rozsa
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Uranus, and its innermost substantial moon, the fractured Miranda (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Uranus is much weirder than we thought

Matthew Rozsa
Wild turkeys are seen near the Berkeley Marina in Berkeley, Calif., on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2021. (Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)

Wild turkeys are threatened again

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Female Gladiator Warrior (Getty Images/Lorado)

The gladiatrix missing from Gladiator II

Jenny Lyons-Cunha
Business people working at desks (Getty Images/Morsa Images)

Return to the office, done right

Nina Jagannathan
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The Andromeda galaxy and an anatomy engraving (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Wanna escape Earth? Too bad space sucks

Levi Stallings
14-year-old Nannalin "Fleur" Pornprasertsom surveying bleached corals during her coral conservation and citizen science course at Black Turtle Dive around Koh Tao island in the southern Thai province of Surat Thani on on June 14, 2024. (LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP via Getty Images)

Coral reefs being pushed to extinction

Matthew Rozsa
A spectrum is projected onto a human eye (Getty Images/LWA)

Why color may not objectively exist

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Abstract blue pills flying from smartphone. (Alena Butusava / Getty Images)

Inside Russia's dark web drug markets

Niko Vorobyov
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Community organizations and tenants hold a rally to protest against the rising costs of rental apartments in New York City, May 20, 2023 in Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn, New York. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why a $10K move to NYC might get cheaper

Cara Michelle Smith
Warty Comb jellyfish (Mnemiopsis leidyi) (Getty Images/Oxford Scientific)

Strange consciousness of comb jellies

Matthew Rozsa
Young man holding an I Voted Sticker up (Getty Images/grandriver)

Portland experiment upends election

David Daley
Candiru (Vandellia cirrhosa), also known as cañero, toothpick fish, or vampire fish, is a species of parasitic freshwater catfish in the family Trichomycteridae native to the Amazon Basin. (Jorge Garcia/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Nature’s strangest real life vampires

Matthew Rozsa
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Dead body covered in sheet in hospital (Getty Images/MediaProduction)

The complex ethics of unclaimed bodies

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Herring Gull Larus argentatus with three chicks (Getty Images/aseppa)

Why gulls don't deserve the hate

Brianna Grant
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN - APRIL 06: Afghan workers work at poppy field in Kandahar, Afghanistan on April 06, 2022. Farmers demand an alternative for plantations after Taliban's ban on poppy cultivation. (Photo by Sayed Khodaiberdi Sadat/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Europe's looming overdose crisis

Niko Vorobyov
Check up visit in doctor's office (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

Why our definition of obesity is flawed

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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