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Science & Health

In this Feb. 21, 2017 photo, a woman wearing a mask walks to a subway station during the evening rush hour in Beijing. Yet the city’s average reading of the tiny particulate matter PM2.5 - considered a good gauge of air pollution - is still seven times what the World Health Organization considers safe. A group of Chinese lawyers is suing the governments of Beijing and its surrounding areas for not doing enough to get rid of the smog. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (AP)

The Green New Deal and colonialism

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò - The Conversation
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Flights in danger from extreme wind

Nicole Karlis
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(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Tide turning on Trump's war on science

Elliott Negin - Independent Media Institute
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An image of the humpback whale in the Amazon Jungle. (Instagram/bicho_dagua)

The world's whales are behaving weirdly

Nicole Karlis
In this Sunday, March 26, 2017, photo, Royal Palms Beach in the San Pedro area of Los Angeles is protected by boulders placed there to forestall erosion. A new study predicts that with limited human intervention, 31 percent to 67 percent of Southern California beaches could completely erode back to coastal infrastructure or sea cliffs by the year 2100, with sea-level rises of 3.3 feet (1 meter) to 6.5 feet (2 meters). The study released Monday, March 27, 2017, used a new computer model to predict shoreline effects caused by sea level rise and changes in storm patterns due to climate change. (AP Photo/John Antczak) (AP)

"The Uninhabitable Earth"

Kate Yoder - Grist
FILE- In this Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, file photograph, a small bottle of the opiate overdose treatment drug, naloxone, also known by its brand name Narcan, is displayed at the South Jersey AIDS Alliance in Atlantic City, N.J. It is becoming easier for friends and family of heroin users or patients abusing strong prescription painkillers to get access to naloxone, a powerful, life-saving antidote, as state lawmakers loosen restrictions on the medicine to fight a growing epidemic. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File) (AP)

More states want overdose reversal drug

Barbara Feder Ostrov - KFF Health News
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It’s time to get behind single-payer

Stephanie Nakajima - Independent Media Institute
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Reducing children’s test anxiety

Louis Volante, Christopher DeLuca - The Conversation
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From fear of spiders to fascination

Gerhard J. Gries, Andreas Fischer - The Conversation
In this image released by Lionsgate, Jennifer Lawrence portrays Katniss Everdeen in a scene from "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1." (AP Photo/Lionsgate, Murray Close) (AP)

Sci-fi can help solve climate change

Zoe Sayler - Grist
(AP/Ross D. Franklin)

Striking for school nurses the way to go

Ana B. Ibarra - KFF Health News
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In this Nov. 28, 2016 photo, Dr. Sunjay Kaushal, left, performs open heart surgery on Josue Salinas Salgado at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) (AP)

3D printers make practice hearts

Kirsty Vitarelli - WhoWhatWhy
FILE - This Aug 4, 2011 file photo shows the Cigna logo at the headquarters of the health insurer Cigna Corp., in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) (Associated Press)

Insurers sway benefits employers choose

Marshall Allen - ProPublica
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Study: Like owner, like dog

Nicole Karlis
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OxyContin's strength hidden from doctors

David Armstrong - ProPublica
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Deaths mount from high-speed pursuits

Thomas Frank - FairWarning
Bernie Sanders, joined by Richard Blumenthal and Kirsten Gillibrand, unveil their Medicare for All legislation to reform health care. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

How do Dems define Medicare-for-all?

Shefali Luthra - KFF Health News
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Why women drop out of STEM fields

Nicole Karlis
FILE - In this file photo daetd Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, a medical worker sprays people being discharged from the Island Clinic Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia. Bulldozers on Wednesday April. 5, 2017 cleared the remains of a once busy Ebola treatment unit in Liberia, as health care workers, officials and some who were treated there gathered to mark the center's last day and official decommissioning. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, FILE) (AP)

Predicting the next outbreak

C. Brandon Ogbunu, Randall Harp, Samuel V. Scarpino - The Conversation
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In this Aug. 28, 2016 photo, Cabell County EMT Tabitha Perez demonstrates how medics administer naloxone to overdosing patients, in Huntington, W.Va. On Aug. 15, 28 people overdosed in Huntington and 26 survived. Without the life-saving drug, authorities suspect the death toll would have been much higher. The laced heroin was so potent, the typical dose failed to revive many of them. They used two, sometimes three doses to bring them back to life. (AP Photo/Claire Galofaro) (AP)

Discharged and dismissed

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
In this Jan. 16, 2017, photo, Rohingya fishermen carry a fishing raft, constructed with empty plastic containers, up the beach in Tha Pyay Taw village, Maungdaw, western Rakhine state, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Esther Htusan) (AP)

How boats can help you sleep

Kirsty Vitarelli - WhoWhatWhy
In this Thursday, June 2, 2016, elephant 'Kaavan' takes a bath at Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan. The plight of Kaavan, a mentally tormented bull elephant confined to a small pen in the Islamabad Zoo for nearly three decades, has galvanized a rare animal rights campaign in Pakistan, which has brought the issue to the floor of parliament. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) (AP)

Crimes against animals — and people

Kendra Coulter - The Conversation
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Women in STEM face huge disadvantages

Farah Qaiser
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