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Bird Flu (Getty Images/Peter Garrard Beck)

Bird flu isn't as silent as we think

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Cochliomyia hominivorax, the New World screwworm fly, or screwworm for short, is a species of parasitic fly that is well known for the way in which its larvae (maggots) eat the living tissue. (Getty Images / Ramdan Fatoni)

The US could get screwed on screwworm

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Couple holding hands on the bed. (Getty Images / Maria Korneeva)

Psychedelics could fix your sex life

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Woman throwing bills in the air (Getty Images/Photo_Concepts)

The financial therapist will see you now

Melanie Lockert
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Scheme of parts of human brain with circuit board as brain anatomy. (Getty Images / Grafissimo)

Humans think — AI, not so much

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Cantor Fitzgerald Chairman and CEO Howard Lutnick (R), U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's choice for secretary of commerce, prepares to meet with Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) in the Dirksen Office Building on Capitol Hill on December 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Lutnick's "5-star rating" for conflicts

Daria Solovieva
Virus spore in an ice cube (Getty Images/Yingko)

Prepping for diseases from melting ice

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Man with eyes closed standing in blurred light. (Addictive Stock / Getty Images)

Trippy breathwork isn't for everyone

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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White blood cells, a stack of platelets and red blood cells revealed in the photomicrograph of a thick film Giemsa-stained blood smear sample, 1971. (Getty Images/Smith Collection/Gado)

Sexual identity is in all cells

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Wood frog (Getty Images/Auscape/Universal Images Group)

Animals that die and come back to life

Carlyn Zwarenstein
(Maryna Terletska/Getty Images)

Saving "cute" species: It's a start!

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A small town glows beneath a starry sky. (harpazo_hope / Getty Images)

Creatures of the night, unite

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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Satellite hurtling through space burning up as it enters the atmosphere. (PaulFleet / Getty Images)

Falling space debris: A growing threat

Joanna Thompson
Sam Nivola as Lochlan Ratliff in "The White Lotus" and a Cerbera odollam tree (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Jouan/Rius / Gamma-Rapho / Fabio Lovino/HBO)

The truth of deadly "White Lotus" fruit

Elizabeth Hlavinka
From left: Former Nazi diplomat Franz von Papen, financier Hjalmar Schacht and propaganda chief Hans Fritsche after their acquittal on war crimes charges in Nuremberg, Oct. 4, 1946. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

When the rich rolled over for fascism

Nicholas Liu
Illustration of vapour plumes erupting from the surface of Enceladus, Saturns sixth largest moon, created on July 26, 2018. (Illustration by Tobias Roetsch/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Antarctic ice informs search for aliens

Elizabeth Howell
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Seine et Marne on march the 6th 2021 at night. Taurus constellation. On this image we can see the effect of the movements of artificial satellites through the sky. On the left we can see the planet Mars, on the right the famous stars cluster the Pleiades (M45). From the bottom right the luminous trail of the satellite STARLINK-1269, and from the top the luminous trail of the satellite STARLINK-1577. (Christophe Lehenaff / Getty Images)

Satellites are censoring the stars

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Chatbot, artificial intelligence in medicine concept. (Moor Studio / Getty Images)

Can AI therapy end mental health stigma?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Neuronal network, conceptual illustration. (CHRISTOPH BURGSTEDT/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Getty Images)

Are concept neurons what make us human?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte takes an oath as he attends a senate probe on the drug war during his administration, in Manila on October 28, 2024. (Photo by JAM STA ROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

Duterte’s drug war wasn’t about drugs

Niko Vorobyov
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A Mexican soldier stands guard next to marijuana packages outside a tunnel discovered at a warehouse in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, near the border with the US on November 26, 2010. (FRANCISCO VEGA/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s war with cartels will backfire

Niko Vorobyov
Girl with measles on their body (Getty Images/StockPlanets)

You don't want to throw a measles party

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Bolivia, La Paz: Women in typical costumes distribute coca leaves on coca chewing day. Photo: Radoslaw Czajkowski/dpa (Photo by Radoslaw Czajkowski/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Groups demand: "decolonize" coca leaves

Niko Vorobyov
Child holding a small plant (Getty Images/lovelyday12)

How plant biology mirrors our own

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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