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Cookie in space (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why does food taste so bland in space?

Joy Saha
An aerial view of the almost dried up Zernek Dam due to the heat and excessive evaporation in the last months in Gurpinar district of Van, Turkiye on September 28, 2022. (Necat Hazar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Climate change worsens isolation

Akielly Hu - Grist
Friends hanging out at a music festival (Getty Images/Klaus Vedfelt)

Men, you need to make more friends

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Emily Dickinson: unlikely hero of 2020

Matthew Redmond - The Conversation
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A woman wears a medical mask on the subway as New York City confronts the coronavirus outbreak on March 11, 2020 in New York City. President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday evening that he is restricting passenger travel from 26 European nations to the U.S. in an effort to contain the coronavirus which is rapidly spreading throughout the world and America. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Social distancing doesn't mean isolation

Nicole Karlis
Afternoon commuters wait for their trains at Montgomery BART station in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. Some commuters opted to wear respiratory masks as one person became the first victim in California to die from the coronavirus disease. Also, the first two cases in San Francisco were reported the following day. (Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)

Why a US COVID quarantine is a bad idea

Sara May Bergstresser - Massive Science
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America's fascination with genetic tests

Nicole Karlis
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Alone in the crowd, but not lonely

Sara Konrath - The Conversation
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Solitude makes us less human

Gregory Smithsimon
Astronaut (Getty/Kirill Kudryavtsev)

Why humans aren't ready for space travel

Nicole Karlis
1984 yearbook photo of Christopher Knight (AP/Robert F. Bukaty/Penguin Random House)

27 years alone in the woods

Julia Bainbridge - The Lonely Hour
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Natasha Lennard
This undated photo provided by the vkontakte website shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. (AP)

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