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Christmas fruitcake with sugar icing and candied fruits (Getty Images/Sarsmis)

How fruitcake became a holiday punchline

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Medical nanorobot in human blood, illustration (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Robot doctors are coming. Are we ready?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Black hole (Getty Images/Petrovich9)

How to juice energy from a black hole

Nicole Karlis
An MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) is prepared for training mission at Creech Air Force Base on November 17, 2015 in Indian Springs, Nevada. (Isaac Brekken/Getty Images)

The military’s big bet on AI

Sarah Scoles - Undark
A mother Bottlenose Dolphin swims with her calf close by (Getty Images/NaluPhoto)

Dolphins can sense electricity: study

Nicole Karlis
Artistic rendering of the possible view from LHS 3154b towards its low mass host star. Given its large mass, LHS 3154b probably has a Neptune-like composition. (Penn State, CC BY-NC-ND)

Planet discovered is too big for its sun

Matthew Rozsa
Black hole, dark matter, periodic table of elements (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dark matter's invisible perioidic table

Rae Hodge
Kitchen filled with smoke (Getty Images/Ignatiev)

When indoor air becomes deadly

Ana Clara Faria
Artist’s impression composed of a star with a disc around it (a Be “vampire” star; foreground) and its companion star that has been stripped of its outer parts (background). (ESO/L. Calçada)

These bright blue stars form threesomes

Matthew Rozsa
Thanksgiving Leftovers in Containers (Getty Images/Maren Caruso)

The surprising history of leftovers

Ashlie D. Stevens
The artist's conception shows a hypothetical planet with two moons orbiting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. (NASA/D. Aguilar/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

A new target in search for alien life

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Artist concept of the Milky Way (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

New studies on how galaxies form spirals

Nicole Karlis
Autumn leaves into wildfire (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Climate change alters autumn forever

Matthew Rozsa
African elephant (Loxodonta africana) small group of elephants drinking at a waterhole in Mashatu game reserve, Botswana, Africa. (Sergi Reboredo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Elephants may have names for each other

Rae Hodge
Biodegradable trash paper and plastic spread out (Getty Images/Tatiana Maksimova)

Can bioplastics fix our plastic problem?

Matthew Rozsa
At Boulder Mind Care Dr. Wade Grindle gives ketamine to some patiences to help with their depression on November 14, 2022 in Boulder, Colorado. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Barriers to ketamine harming patients

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Campbell's: A contentious holiday staple

Ashlie D. Stevens
Two chimpanzees meeting with each other apparently having a discussion using hand gestures (Getty Images/curioustiger)

What chimp kids tell us about language

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Man stands with umbrella outside looking at large collection of big alarm clocks drowning in the sea. (Getty Images/mikkelwilliam)

What is a world without time?

Meghan Beaudry
Dental floss (Getty Images/Artem Sokolov)

Is your floss toxic?

Nicole Karlis
A painting depicting Dr Jonas Salk in his lab working on the Polio vaccine in 1955 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Illustration by Ed Vebell/Getty Images)

Where did vaccine mistrust come from?

Matthew Rozsa
Amazon river dolphin jumps out of water (Getty Images/Cavan Images)

Saving dolphins from climate change

Matthew Rozsa
Alien and milky way in the night (Getty Images/Apostoli Rossella)

Would aliens really want to invade us?

Matthew Rozsa
Stormy sea (Getty Images/da-kuk)

The impact of hurricanes on marine life

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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