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Mexican journalist and ufologist Jaime Maussan (Jaime Nogales/Medios y Media/Getty Images)

Does Mexico have mummified aliens?

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Earth and moon from space (Getty Images/photovideostock/NASA)

Earth is exceeding its planetary bounds

Matthew Rozsa
Male figure walking through maze (Getty Images/OsakaWayne Studios)

Do new Alzheimer's drugs actually help?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Young woman in front of the refrigerator at night (Getty Images/LordHenriVoton)

Night owls beware: Diabetes risk is high

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Small scientists in clean suits examining salami for bacteria (Getty Images/Hermann Mueller)

Food recalls are on the rise. Why?

Ashlie D. Stevens
Man in parka, hat and scarf frozen from the cold (Getty Images/cmannphoto)

This is why you're always cold

Mary Elizabeth Williams
UFOs flying in the sky, illustration (Getty Images/KTSDESIGN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

All about UFOs and alien intelligence

Rae Hodge
Vials of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Poor countries face vaccine inequity

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Woman and dog relaxing with a glass of wine with view of waterfall in Lauterbrunnen in the Swiss Alps (Getty Images/Anastasiia Shavshyna)

Why the Swiss hoard their amazing wine

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Young woman hugging her wife holding a pregnancy test in the bathroom at home (Getty Images/FG Trade)

LGBTQ people face barriers to IVF

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Le Creuset enamelled cast-iron pans (Dickson Lee/South China Morning Post via Getty Images)

Why Gen Z is investing in Le Creuset

Joy Saha
Coco Gauff of the United States reacts after winning her Women's Singles Quarterfinal match against Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia on Day Nine of the 2023 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 05, 2023 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Sarah Stier/Getty Images)

Coco Gauff's powerhouse US Open journey

Nardos Haile
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Infant Chimpanzee in tree with leaf in mouth. (Getty Images/Yannick Tylle)

What ape elbow evolution says about us

Matthew Rozsa
Cute pug dog sleeping on the floor (Getty Images/fongleon356)

Global heat will afflict snoutless dogs

Matthew Rozsa
Teenage boy sleeping in the library (Getty Images/Mayur Kakade)

This is your brain on sleeplessness

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Overhead view on schoolboy and schoolgirl at school desk (Getty Images/golero)

Patients can't find Adderall in shortage

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Ice Cubes on a map of Europe (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Will Europe finally embrace ice cubes?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Fried Egg On Non-Stick Frying Pan (Getty Images/Maryna Terletska)

PFAS are everywhere

Matthew Rozsa
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector assembly is pictured in a tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), during maintenance works on February 6, 2020 in Cessy, France, near Geneva. (VALENTIN FLAURAUD/AFP via Getty Images)

LHC finds neutrinos

Matthew Rozsa
Crowds of people walk along the pavement at Shibuya Crossing, one of the busiest intersections in the world, in the Shibuya district of Tokyo on April 5, 2023. (RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images)

Why are COVID names so confusing?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Girl with dog spending time in the park enjoying good music (Getty Images/martin-dm)

Why dogs key into cute-sie baby voices

Matthew Rozsa
Parisian Restaurant in Latin Quarter, Paris, France (Getty Images/Pawel Libera)

Why are Americans so bad at lunch?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Climeworks' DAC plant "Orca", Iceland, in the night (Climeworks)

Will carbon removal tech actually work?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Planet Neptune (Getty Images/buradaki/NASA)

Neptune's clouds are disappearing

Matthew Rozsa
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