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BOSTON, MA - APRIL 17: Governor of Massachusetts Maura Healey is interviewed by the media during the 127th Boston Marathon on April 17, 2023 on Boylston Street in Boston, MA. ((Photo by Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images))

Science and religion find middle ground

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TikTok logo displayed on a phone screen is seen through broken glass. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

TikTok heist is privacy hypocrisy

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Brain in Space (Getty Images/Jumpstart Studios)

Can science crack our consciousness?

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Banded mongoose group approaching with curiosity (Mungos mungo) (Getty Images/Anup Shah)

Mongoose warfare: Rikki Tikki's revenge

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Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou (543-578) | The Kunlun Mountains (Kunlun Shan) forms the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau south of the Tarim basin and the Gansu corridor and continues east south of the Wei River to end at the North China Plain. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Chinese climate change, past and present

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Eye of the universe, concept (Getty Images/ANDRZEJ WOJCICKI)

Is universal consciousness legitimate?

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February 26, 2024, the Emirates Telecommunications Corporation, known as Etisalat, is holding a demonstration of an android at the Mobile World Congress. Alongside the android demonstration, the first flying car is being presented, and artificial intelligence applications are taking center stage. (Charlie Perez/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Are AI brains in robot bodies conscious?

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Journalist interviewing a healthcare worker working at a COVID-19 vaccination stand (Getty Images/andresr)

Black women vital to science journalism

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Human brain connected with USB wire cord (SerrNovik (Getty Images))

NFL brain trauma vs. Elon's Neuralink

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Female influencers applying face cream while making tutorial for social media (Getty Images/Westend61)

Bucking the beauty industry scam

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Emotional Distress (Getty Images/golubovy)

2024: The year you lose your mind

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Atom model with newspaper (Getty Images/Talaj)

Science journalism is no longer safe

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Male hand rejecting glass with alcoholic beverage (Getty Images/Sergiy Katrych)

How you can help wage War on Christmas

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National Gallery staff member Jean Tang poses next to the work Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, about 1623-5, during a photo call to preview the National Gallery's forthcoming Artemisia exhibition in London. (Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images)

AI deepfake porn: A case for vengeance

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A mushroom cloud after an atomic blast, 1950s. (Lambert/Getty Images)

A new $10B nuke? No thanks, Pentagon

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Collared Peccary or Javelina in the grass (Getty Images/G Parekh)

On the javelina golf course guerillas

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Ouroboros and binary code (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Untangling the AI ouroboros

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