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Elizabeth Hlavinka is a staff writer at Salon covering health and drugs. She specializes in exploring taboo topics and complex questions that help humans understand their place in the world.

Person admiring the Northern Lights (aurora borealis) (Getty Images/Marco Bottigelli)

What makes the psychedelic experience so healing? It could be “awe”

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Blood sample positive with sexually transmitted diseases: HIV, HBV, HCV, Syphilis (Getty Images/jarun011)

“Glimmer of hope”: STI surge shows first signs of slowing in decades. What’s behind the trend?

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Diet of a pea on a plate (Getty Images/ziquiu)

Eating disorders are the second most deadly mental health condition. Why do so few get care?

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Woman holding a handful of vitamins (Getty Images/Strauss/Curtis)

Taking supplements can be different for women — and what’s in the bottle may not always be accurate

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Ducks with bird flu also known as poultry flu are collected and put in a container on Pommernhof in Zarnewanz near Rostock, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on November 28, 2024 in Zarnewanz, Germany. (Frank Soellner/Getty Images)

What’s causing bird flu to surge? Probably climate change, experts say

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Pluto and Charon (Getty Images/HYPERSPHERE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

“Kiss and capture”: New theory explains how Pluto captured its biggest moon

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Passing a joint at a house party (Getty Images/ sturti)

Massive study of adolescent brains puts “gateway drug” theory into question

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Young man refusing alcoholic drinks (Getty Images/Vyacheslav Dumchev)

Why more young people are “sober curious”

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Massive black holes in nebula (Getty Images/ sakkmesterke)

Why dark matter’s mysteries persist after decades of searching

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Sugar bomb breakfast (Getty Images/Peter Dazeley)

Sugar is irresistible like a drug. Is it actually addictive?

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Espresso coffee cup on vintage table and assortment of grinded and roasted coffee beans (Getty Images/apomares)

Caffeine is everywhere. Is it actually harmless?

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Cannabis leaves, pharmaceutical MDMA, and pink cocaine (aka Tussi) (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Psychedelics rejected, Captagon factories and “pink cocaine”: The drugs that defined 2024

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A virologist at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts works in her lab, tracking the avian influenza virus. (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Bird flu hospitalizes person in Louisiana, the first severe infection in U.S.

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In this photo illustration, Elizabeth Snouffer, whose had type 1 diabetes for most of her life, displays her insulin capsule which she needs to take daily on March 02, 2023 in New York City. (Illustration by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Frustrated with high drug costs, biohackers are reverse engineering medical treatments

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Green kratom powder, capsule and beverage (Getty Images/Betka82)

“Blessing and a curse”: Kratom helps many get off other drugs but carries its own risks

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Empty Plate (Getty Images/Peter Dazeley)

Is fasting the “natural” state of human metabolism? Or just another diet fad?

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This image of NGC 5468, a galaxy located about 130 million light-years from Earth, combines data from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Adam G. Riess (JHU, STScI))

Cracks in cosmological theory: James Webb telescope is challenging what we know about the universe

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Head inside another head (Getty Images/quickshooting)

Breaking down to not break down: This therapy technique splits the self. But does it actually help?

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A vet takes a sample from the mouth of a swan during an animal disease exercise. (Christoph Reichwein/picture alliance via Getty Images)

A single mutation could make bird flu much worse, study finds

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Reproduction of an adult skull of Paranthropus boisei. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Crossing evolutionary paths: New research finds different hominin species coexisted

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Wild turkeys are seen near the Berkeley Marina in Berkeley, Calif., on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2021. (Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)

Turkeys survived colonization and near extinction. Now they’re declining again, puzzling scientists

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A microbiologist tests poultry samples collected from a farm located in a control area for the presence of avian influenza, or bird flu, at the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on March 24, 2022 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Three mysterious bird flu cases worry experts that another pandemic is looming

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Woman Holding Birth Control Pills (Getty Images/Laura Olivas)

TikTok is being flooded with birth control misinformation. Is it stopping women from taking it?

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans and RFK Jr. have embraced psychedelics. What could go wrong?

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