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COVID-19 new lambda variant | Bunny the talking Dog | Rising sea levels (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/koto_feja/freie-kreation/Instagram/@what_about_bunny)

Salon's top science stories of 2021

Matthew Rozsa
This artist’s impression shows an example of a rogue planet with the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex visible in the background. Rogue planets have masses comparable to those of the planets in our Solar System but do not orbit a star, instead roaming freely on their own. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Rogue planets wander through the galaxy

Nicole Karlis
A squirrel holding a nut (Getty Images/suefeldberg)

Squirrel privilege is real

Nicole Karlis
Billi The Cat (Photo courtesy of Kendra Baker)

Can Billi the talking cat really talk?

Nicole Karlis
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Hundreds are gathered to protest vaccination mandate in New York City, United States on September 13, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Pro-Trump America's insane COVID toll

Brett Bachman
Back shoulder of a woman (Getty Images/Juanmonino)

The organ that makes us human

Matthew Rozsa
Young woman feeling bored while staying home for safety during a global pandemic (Getty Images)

The surprising science of boredom

Gail Cornwall
Close-up of Living as a Bird by Vinciane Despret (Polity)

How birds see time differently than us

Matthew Rozsa
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The James Webb Space Telescope hovering over Earth, concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Meet Hubble's ambitious successor

Daniel Karel
Coronavirus, COVID-19 concept (Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images)

Everything we know about Omicron variant

Brett Bachman
CERN (European Organization For Nuclear Research) (Luis Davilla/Cover/Getty Images)

Is science stuck?

Michael Bhaskar
Turkey with a graduation cap (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Turkey intelligence is underrated

Matthew Rozsa
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Sliced in half apple fruit with vivid red flesh (Getty Images/Photology1971)

The science of red-fleshed apples

Joy Saha
Octopus (Getty Images/sko)

How the octopus got so smart

Matthew Rozsa
Asteroid and swarm of meteorites flying towards Earth (Getty Images/Mike Mareen)

NASA's asteroid deflection spacecraft

Matthew Rozsa
Artist's impression of a hot and dense accretion disk around a black hole, which can be a rich production site of heavy elements. Neutron-rich material is ejected from the disk, enabling the rapid neutron-capture process (r-process). The light blue region is a particularly fast ejection of matter, called a jet, which typically originates parallel to the disk's rotation axis. (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA)

There's gold in them thar black holes

Nicole Karlis
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A man displays a piece of microneedle patch (SAM YEH/AFP via Getty Images)

A "next-gen" COVID vaccine is in tests

Nicole Karlis
LROC Wide Angle Camera (WAC) mosaic of the south polar region, width ~600 km (NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University)

The moon has an icy secret

Nicole Karlis
Man sneezing with spray of water droplet full of virus or microbes. He wears his face mask inappropriately on one ear. (Getty Images/Marc Dufresne)

First manspreading, now manbreathing

Nicole Karlis
Diplodocus fossil, at the Natural History Museum, in Paris, Illustration from French newspaper Le Petit Parisien, May 10, 1908, Private Collection. (Leemage/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The Bone Wars echo in vax fight today

Logan W. Cole
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Brain with a futuristic graphical user interface in network connection space (Getty Images)

Book review: Pinker's "Rationality"

Dan Falk - Undark
Exterior view of a Walmart store (Kena Betancur/VIEWpress via Getty Images)

The deadly pathogen sold at Walmart

Nicole Karlis
Gun On A Table (Getty Images/Edward Olive/EyeEm)

"We have to reconceptualize suicide"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
TV screen with spooky figure in the monitor (Getty Images/Andyborodaty)

The science behind ghost hunting

Matthew Rozsa
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