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Daniel Karel

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Daniel Karel is an editorial intern at Salon and a graduate journalism student at New York University. His work has appeared in New York Magazine, Vice’s Motherboard and Brooklyn Magazine. Follow him on Twitter @dannykarel_

Nutmeg seeds and ground nutmeg (Getty Images/fcafotodigital)

Nutmeg, beloved holiday spice, is also a powerful psychoactive drug

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

Hubble’s enormous, ambitious successor is poised to change our understanding of the universe

Daniel Karel
Space junk around Earth (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Earth’s space junk problem is getting worse

Daniel Karel
A team of ecologists and ecology students from Kasetsart University collect wingspan data from a wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat at an on site lab near the Khao Chong Pran Cave on September 12, 2020 in Ratchaburi, Thailand. A team of researchers consisting of scientists, ecologists, and officers from Thailand's National Park Department have been conducting bat sampling collection missions throughout Thailand's countryside in an effort to understand the origins of COVID-19. (Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images)

The World Health Organization has formed a new team to investigate COVID-19’s origins

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Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan as members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus make a visit to the institute in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on February 3, 2021. (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

“Lab leak” or natural spillover? Leading scientists debate COVID-19’s origins

Daniel Karel
A couple sit next to each other in a doctor's office and listen carefully to their doctor. (Getty Images/FatCamera)

Couples in long-term relationships develop uncanny biological similarities, study finds

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Doctor consulting with a young man (Getty Images/iStock)

Male fertility rates have plummeted. The NIH is spending millions to figure out why

Daniel Karel