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Carlyn Zwarenstein is the author of On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance, her second book about drugs, pain and solidarity. As a journalist, she writes about science, literature, social movements and health. She's on Twitter at @CarlynZwaren, and Live More Lives is her dreamy weekly newsletter about fiction and experience.

View of Mount Vesuvius from the ground of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii (Getty Images/Andrea Pucci)

An ancient volcano victim’s brain turned to glass. Scientists now think they know how

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Donald Trump shredding the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) logo (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump is gutting environmental data, obscuring climate and pollution risks to the public

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Planet Earth on fire (Getty Images/sankai)

Can humans really extinguish all life on Earth? It’s complicated

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Doctors examine an x-ray of a patient who has tuberculosis (Najlah Feanny/Corbis via Getty Images)

Tuberculosis is on the rise again. We can fight it — if we try

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Glyptodon (Getty Images/estt)

Back to the Miocene: What the climate 13.8 million years ago could tell us about our future world

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Dog nose between pink cherry blossoms (Getty Images/Ve Shandor/500px)

In the brain, smell and sight are closer friends than we thought

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Close-up of an elderly man pouring out a pill from a medicine bottle. (Getty Images/Jacob Wackerhausen)

The FDA just approved a new painkiller. Is it too good to be true?

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Cows at the Cornell Teaching Dairy Barn at Cornell University, and a member of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Migrants are on the front lines of the bird flu crisis but deportation fears are causing chaos

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Donald Trump VS Scientific Data (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

As the Trump admin deletes online data, scientists and digital librarians rush to save it

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Wegovy, an injectable prescription weight loss medicine that has helped people with obesity. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Scientists find Ozempic may treat cancer, Alzheimer’s and more. Is it hype or truly a “wonder drug?”

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DNA mirrored (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Mirror life” could pose unprecedented risks to the world, scientists warn

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Digital nose (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Digital smell has arrived. Are we ready for Stinkygram?

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Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams testifies during a Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing about how to counter vaccine hesitancy, on Capitol Hill July 1, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Can the incoming Trump administration put health above politics?

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A spectrum is projected onto a human eye (Getty Images/LWA)

Is color even real? The true nature of the rainbow is deeper than it seems

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Palestinian paramedic Maha Wafi, 43, walks past destroyed ambulance vehicles in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on September 15, 2024 amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (BASHAR TALEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Health care workers in Gaza ask why the international community ignores their suffering

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A view of burned and destroyed Al-Shifa Hospital due to the Israeli attacks that continue in Gaza City, Gaza on April 1, 2024. (Abdulqader Sabbah/Anadolu via Getty Images)

UN report accuses Israel of willfully destroying Gaza’s health care infrastructure

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Spider Crab (Getty Images/George Karbus Photography)

Nature keeps evolving crabs and the internet is obsessed. What’s going on here?

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Long covid activists attend the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies hearing on the "Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request for the National Institutes of Health," in Dirksen building on Thursday, May 23, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

All eyes on XEC: Why COVID sleuths are paying attention to this variant

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Dolphin in aquarium (Getty Images/vdorse)

From dinosaurs to dolphins, what gaze following reveals about the evolution of empathy

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Portrait of scientist with projected mathematical data (Getty Images/Monty Rakusen)

Numbers game: Is math the language of nature or just a human construct?

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Octopus with diver's hand underwater (Getty Images/Martin Steinthaler)

How naturally-produced opioids help plumb the depths of animal minds

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Big Bang, conceptual image (Getty Images/ALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Shortly after the Big Bang, conditions were perfect for life. Did aliens emerge long before us?

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A doctor picks medicines for a patient at a temporary clinic in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on Jan. 8, 2024. (Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Why warzones are the perfect place for antibiotic resistance and what that means for Palestine

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A girl standing in the midst of the stars at night (Getty Images/sarayut Thaneerat)

Sure, we’re all made of stardust. But what does that really mean?

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