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Young woman holding birth control pills blister pack (Getty Images/Dimitri Otis)

Birth control side effects elude science

Saima Sidik - Undark

In this photo illustration, a man looks at his supplies for type-1 diabetes management, including tubed insulin pump, insulin vial, syringe, needle, insulin cartridge, and infusion site applicator. (Matt Harbicht/Getty Images for Tandem Diabetes Care)

A cure for Type 1 diabetes inches nearer

"A Trip to the Moon." French movie by Georges Melies, 1902. Space rocket hits moon in the eye. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

Scientists elated by lunar junk impact

Smaller than a penny, the flower-like rock artifact on the left was imaged by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the end of its robotic arm. The image was taken on Feb. 24, 2022, the 3,396th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The “flower,” along with the spherical rock artifacts seen to the right, were made in the ancient past when minerals carried by water cemented the rock. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

Mars' bizarre "flower" rock, explained

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DNA, Atoms and particles (Getty Images/Yuichiro Chino)

Genomics' ethical gray areas abroad

Dyna Rochmyaningsih - Undark

Three generations of NIke air defense missiles showing, L-R Ajax (1953), Hercules (1958), and Zeus (1960), late 1960s or early 1970s. The Hercules & Zeus had nuclear warhead carrying capabilities. (Adam Glickman/Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

Why we still can't intercept ICBMs

Nodules of nitrogen-fixing Rhizobia bacteria on the roots of forage legumes (Getty Images / Bill Barksdale / Design Pics)

Could a bacteria replace fertilizer?

James Webb Space Telescope looking at galaxies (Photo illustration by NASA)

Finding ET through... pollutants?

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Harvard University Professor E.O. Wilson in his office at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. USA. Professor Wilson is a biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author. He is considered to be the world's leading authority on the study of ants. (Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)

New evidence about E.O. Wilson and race

Michael Schulson - Undark

Oil pipelines, pumping rigs, and electrical transmission lines dot the landscape along California's "Petroleum Highway" (Highway 33) running along the northwestern side of the San Joaquin Valley on April 24, 2020, near McKittrick, California. (George Rose/Getty Images)

Maintenance a driver of carbon emissions

Eve Andrews - Grist

Yellow-Headed Blackbird (Getty Images/Brian Reinke)

Birds falling from the sky in Mexico

Anti-vaccine rally protesters hold signs outside of Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, on June 26, 2021 (MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images)

Poll: The right losing faith in science

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English bulldog puppies (Getty Images/Tanya Constantine)

Norway's curious bulldog breeding ban

Artist rendition of an asteroid pair, shortly after separation. Over millennia these objects will drift apart and become harder to identify. At 300 years old, the asteroid pair 2019 PR2 and 2019 QR6 are the youngest found to date. (UC Berkeley/SETI Institute)

The youngest asteroids ever found

1993 California Gold Rush. Ralph Shock holds a nine ounce nugget found in the North fork of Tuolumne River outside Jamestown in mid May. Ralph says the nugget is worth between US $5,800 and $8,500. Nuggets that can be used for jewelry are prized and valued beyond their weight. (Steve Starr/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The Gold Rush returns to California

Becki Robins - Undark

Great Dane and a Chihuahua (Getty Images/Eriklam)

The gene that makes toy dogs small

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Engineering teams at NASAs James Webb Space Telescope Mission Operations Center at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore monitor progress as the observatory's second primary mirror wing rotates into position, on January 8, 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland. Webb, an infrared telescope with a 21.3-foot (6.5-meter) primary mirror, was folded up for launch and underwent an unprecedented deployment process to unfold in space. As NASA's next flagship observatory, Webb will study every phase of cosmic history from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)

Webb telescope reaches its home in space

Mary Mallon(1870?-1938), known as "Typhoid Mary". She was the first person identified as a carrier of typhoid bacilli in the United States. Herself immune to the disease, she spread typhoid while working as a cook in the New York City area. She is pictured here after having been institutionalized on Brother Island where she stayed from 1914 until her death in 1938. (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Why finding patient zero matters

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Balancing emojis (Getty Images/Huber & Starke)

Your fear and disgust are protecting you

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Cannabis plant (Getty Images)

New study: Cannabis may prevent COVID

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Man talking to his dog (Getty Images/Westend61)

Your dog has potential to be bilingual

Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wisc. (ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Ron Johnson seeking reelection after all

Brad Reed - Raw Story

All that's left of 1947 is a headache and a job for the cleaners. This celebrant, who celebrated wildly and well at the Palm Beach Club in New York City, is just a job for the sweepers. (Getty Images/Bettmann/Contributor)

Science tries, fails to cure hangovers

A shot of a body in the morgue (Getty Images/fmajor)

The medical mystery of "voodoo death"

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