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A bulldozer moves sand as oil is washed up on Huntington State Beach after a 126,000-gallon oil spill from an offshore oil platform on October 3, 2021 in Huntington Beach, California. The spill forced the closure of the popular Great Pacific Airshow with authorities urging people to avoid beaches in the vicinity. (Nick Ut/Getty Images)

The oil nightmare in the Pacific

Matthew Rozsa
Perseverance rover on Mars (NASA)

Mystery of the missing Mars rock solved

Nicole Karlis
A health worker administers a dose of the Coronavirus vaccine (Xavier Caivinagua/Agencia Press South/Getty Images)

FDA OKs 3rd shot for immunocompromised

Nicole Karlis
Woman wearing protective mask sitting in bus (Getty Images)

CDC updates mask recs for vaxxed

Nicole Karlis
Astronaut in outer space (Getty Images)

Bezos shade? FAA redefines "astronaut"

Nicole Karlis
Hubble Space Telescope (Getty Images/James Benet)

Hubble stops, and starts again

Nicole Karlis
Massive black holes in nebula (Getty Images/ sakkmesterke)

Dark matter's "tethers" between galaxies

Nicole Karlis
Angry Peacock (Getty Images)

Narcissism and aggression are linked

Nicole Karlis
Mold (Getty Images)

Black fungus hits Indian COVID patients

Nicole Karlis
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The pandemic baby bust

Nicole Karlis
A colorful scene of gorgonian giant sea fan and soft corals on a rock in a coral reefs (Getty Images/Credit: Sirachai Arunrugstichai)

Do coral reefs talk?

Nicole Karlis
Boy Eating Multi Colored Breakfast Cereal (Getty Images)

Sugar affects children's brain growth

Nicole Karlis
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How high? Cannabis labels are a mess

Nicole Karlis
An illustration of NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter flying on Mars (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Ingenuity survives night alone on Mars

Nicole Karlis
Medical syringes are seen with Pfizer company logo displayed on a screen in the background in this illustration photo taken in Poland on October 12, 2020. (Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Pfizer vax still works, 6 months later

Nicole Karlis
A box of the AstraZeneneca vaccine is seen in a cooling refrigerator (Chaiwat Subprasom/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Fauci concerned over AstraZeneca data

Nicole Karlis
David Miller and Angie Hagans eat their favorite meal after waiting one year to dine inside Mos Smokehouse BBQ in downtown San Luis Obispo as San Luis Obispo county moved into the red tier that allows for indoor dining and gym reopening. Its one of our favorite restaurants. We ran over when we heard they were open, said David Miller. Mos Smokehouse BBQ general manager Nancy Snyder said, We were ready and excited to open. downtown on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 in San Luis Obispo, CA. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Maybe we shouldn't be dining out at all

Nicole Karlis
Fired executive woman with protective mask packing personal belongings on a box at the office at night (Getty Images)

2.5 million women out of work

Nicole Karlis
Perseverance rover on Mars (NASA)

Perseverance sticks its landing on Mars

Nicole Karlis
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