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Topic: Science (page 13)

Scene setter images outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 in Atlanta, GA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Leprosy is probably endemic to Florida

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A tubular hydrothermal vent that releases hot water, known as a "black smoker", in the Pacific Ocean (Getty Images/Ralph White)

Deep sea creatures impacted by mining

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Pink menstrual cup against black background with stars (Getty Images/TatianaMagoyan)

Why menstrual cups in space matter

Rae Hodge
NASA's Artemis I rocket sits on launch pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 1, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

An astrophysicist on 65 years of NASA

Stephen G. Alexander - The Conversation
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(Mint Images/Getty Images)

More sustainable waste management

Michaela Barnett, Leidy Klotz, Patrick I. Hancock, Shahzeen Attari - The Conversation
At the centre of this image is the young star V960 Mon, located over 5000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. Dusty material with potential to form planets surrounds the star. (ESO/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Weber et al.)

New image hints how planets form

Nicole Karlis
An aerial picture shows bergy bits and growlers floating in front of the Apusiajik glacier, near Kulusuk (aslo spelled Qulusuk), a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality located on the island of the same name on the southeastern shore of Greenland. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

When Greenland was green

Paul Bierman, Tammy Rittenour - The Conversation
Microbes in space, illustration (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Will we know we've found aliens?

Nicole Karlis
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Artist's representation of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flying through precipitating electrons that can trigger X-ray auroras on the surface of Mercury. (Thibaut Roger/Europlanet)

X-ray auroras illuminated on Mercury

Rae Hodge
Ashwagandha superfood powder and root (Getty Images/eskymaks)

Can ashwagandha really relieve stress?

Nicole Karlis
Tylenol, acetaminophen (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Is Tylenol linked to autism and ADHD?

Teresa Carr - Undark
Sunscreen on orange background. Plastic bottle of sun protection and white sun-shaped cream. (ADragan via Getty Images) (ADragan via Getty Images)

What everyone gets wrong about sunscreen

Nicole Karlis
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Ohio EPA and EPA contractors collect soil and air samples from the derailment site on March 9, 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio. Cleanup efforts continue after a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed causing an environmental disaster. (Michael Swensen/Getty Images)

Railroad towns after East Palestine

John McCracken - Grist
Man hugging dog (Getty Images/Carol Yepes)

How dog and human cancer are similar

Nicole Karlis
An artist impression of exoplanet LTT9779b orbiting its host star. The planet is around the size of Neptune and reflects 80% of the light shone on it, making it the largest known “mirror” in the Universe. (ESA/Ricardo Ramírez Reyes/Universidad de Chile)

New planet is universe's largest mirror

Matthew Rozsa
A gorilla skeleton at a Museum of Natural History in Italy, circa 1955. (Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche/Getty Images)

Evolution dispels the "alpha male" myth

Derek Beres
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KHARKIV, UKRAINE - MAY 4, 2023 - Destroyed laboratories are pictured in the building of Karazin University's Education and Research Institute "School of Physics and Technology" that was affected by the shelling of Russian troops in the first months of the Russia-Ukraine war, Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo credit should read Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy / Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Ukrainian science is struggling

Ina Ganguli, Michael E. Rose, Oleksandra Ivashchenko, Stefano Horst Baruffaldi - The Conversation
Amazon River Dolphin or Boto (Inia geoffrensis) Underwater, playing with leaf, Rio Negro, Amazon, Brazil (Getty Images/Kevin Schafer)

Pink dolphins at risk in the Amazon

Rae Hodge
The sun sets behind smoke from a distant wildfire as drought conditions worsen on July 12, 2021 near Glennville, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Blocking the sun to slow global warming?

Rae Hodge
Woman takes fresh organic vegetables (Getty Images/Maria Korneeva)

Focus on fiber for holistic health

Christopher Damman - The Conversation
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Cabinet of replica human fosil skulls. From a college dept of Anthropology. (kickstand via Getty Images)

New study upends human evolution history

Carlyn Zwarenstein
In this artist’s interpretation, a pair of supermassive black holes (top left) emits gravitational waves that ripple through the fabric of space-time. (Photo courtesy of Aurore Simonnet for the NANOGrav Collaboration)

Scientists “hear” gravitational wave hum

Nicole Karlis
Boxes of BinaxNow a COVID-19 at home test kits (Photo illustration by Salon/Michael Bocchieri/Getty Images)

Do at-home COVID tests still work?

Nicole Karlis
Plastic waste (Getty Images/Anna Efetova)

How to build a zero-waste economy

Joseph Winters - Grist
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