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New health concerns over synthetic turf

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
In this Nov. 17, 2016 picture Alma Deutscher plays piano during a rehearsal in Vienna, Austria. Alma Deutscher is a composer, virtuoso pianist and concert violinist who wrote her first sonata five years ago and whose first full opera will have its world premiere next month. All of which is special only because she 11. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak) (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Do music lessons make kids smarter?

Christoph Droesser - Undark
In this photo taken Tuesday,March 11, 2014, pantry cook Alicia Palenyy uses her bare-hands to put cheese on a salad at the Hock Farm restaurant in Sacramento, Calif. Under a bill signed last year by Gov. Jerry Brown, chefs and bartenders in California must keep bare hands off food going straight to the plate or the drink glass, and must use gloves or kitchen utensils such as tongs. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) (AP)

Salad bars an easy target for bioterror

Ana Santos Rutschman - The Conversation
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Menthol cigarettes continue to divide

Ana B. Ibarra - KFF Health News
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Federal court voids "conscience rule"

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
FILE - In this April 14, 2016 file photo, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim speaks at the Turning the Paris Climate Agreement into Action panel discussion, during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings at the World Bank in Washington. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz, File) (AP)

Problem with the Paris Agreement

Rachel Ramirez - Grist
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Doctors: Don't panic over new HIV strain

Nicole Karlis
This undated image provided by journal Science shows a campsite in Pucuncho Basin. Stone tools and other artifacts have revealed the presence of hunter-gatherers at about 14,700 feet above sea level, between 12,000 and 12,500 years ago in the Peruvian Andes. (AP Photo/Science, Matthew Koehler) (AP)

How humans kicked off a new age of fire

Kate Yoder - Grist
A homeless man sleeps on the grass at Civic Center Plaza on May 17, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Getty/Justin Sullivan)

California is living a dystopian future

Stephanie LeMenager - The Conversation
In this Friday, March 17, 2017 photo a sign advertises a program that allows food stamp recipients to use their EBT cards to shop at a farmer's market in Topsham, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) (AP)

"SNAP saves lives"

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

FDA has double-standard on some drugs

Sydney Lupkin - KFF Health News
Hubble Ultra Deep Field conceptualized as a sphere (Nasa/Salon)

Why the universe may end with a crunch

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

Why NASA wants to bake cookies in space

Nicole Karlis
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Should we ban frequent flyer programs?

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
A California Street cable car operator and passenger wear breathing masks to protect against smoke from wildfires Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

The California exodus begins

Nicole Karlis
(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

Arrival of a planetary fire age?

Stephen Pyne - The Conversation
Elizabeth Warren (AP Photo/ Cheryl Senter/Susan Walsh/Salon)

Insurance industry fears Liz Warren

Wendell Potter - Independent Media Institute
Sick in bed, with tissues and tea (Getty Images/sestovic)

Here's how to avoid this year's flu

Shira Tarlo
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Scientists demand "paradigm shift"

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
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Oil companies must cut production by 35%

Eoin Higgins - Common Dreams
(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

"It happens over and over and over"

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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Meth is the deadliest drug in the west

Phillip Smith - Independent Media Institute
Giant pumpkin grown by local farmers weights 930 lbs on display at roadside out of a small village in Canada before Halloween. (Getty Images/Jun Zang)

How to grow a giant pumpkin

Nicole Karlis
Aerial view of the Bangkok city skyline and the Chao Phraya River, Thailand. (Getty Images/Deejpilot)

These cities will drown as the seas rise

Nicole Karlis
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