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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.

Logo of NASA is displayed on mobile phone screen in front of Blue Origin icon on February 27, 2023. (Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Space is becoming more commercialized. Can regulations keep up?

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Bad psychedelic trip, concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

People use drugs like Xanax to halt a bad psychedelic trip — but “trip killers” also come with risks

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Close-up of Ozempic needle injection pen (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

“Faux-zempic”: Behind the rise in fake weight loss drugs that are hospitalizing some people

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Close up view of a female killer whale swimming in blue water (Getty Images/wildestanimal)

We’ve got orcas all wrong and it’s killing them

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Tick Reaching For Human Leg (Getty Images/kmatija)

Like long COVID, Lyme disease can become chronic — and patients are just as dismissed and desperate

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U. S. Senator Charles Schumer speaks while holding photo of bottle with drug Xylazine during the briefing at 875 3rd Avenue lobby in Manhattan on drug Xylazine linked to overdose deaths. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Attempts to ban an emerging drug threat are repeating the mistakes of the drug war, experts caution

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Medical nanorobot in human blood, illustration (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Micro-medical machines like “The Magic Schoolbus” are being developed, but safety concerns remain

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Woman holding open prescription pill bottle (Getty Images/Catherine McQueen)

Over-priced drugs are driving people to “rogue” online pharmacies — sometimes with deadly results

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The artist's conception shows a hypothetical planet with two moons orbiting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. (NASA/D. Aguilar/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Why alien life could be thriving on the “terminator line” of exoplanets

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Common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) (Getty Images/Anup Shah)

These 5 animals have culture. Here’s what they can reveal about our shared evolutionary experience

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At Boulder Mind Care Dr. Wade Grindle gives ketamine to some patiences to help with their depression on November 14, 2022 in Boulder, Colorado. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

For some, the drug ketamine can be a lifesaver. But recent shortages have made it hard to get

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Teenage girl practicing EFT or Emotional freedom technique (Getty Images/Madeleine_Steinbach)

Some swear tapping pressure points melts away anxiety. Does it actually work?

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People are wearing face masks during the fifth wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Krakow, Poland. January 18, 2022. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Has the winter COVID variant arrived? Here’s why experts are closely monitoring the JN.1 strain

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Happy senior man reading next to the Aegean sea (Getty Images/Anastasija Vujic)

Lessons on living to 100: Four “blue zone” strategies that can be applied anywhere

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Woman sleeping peaceful on cloud (Getty Images/urbazon)

Marijuana and Morpheus: Why does pausing cannabis use spark vivid dreams?

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Stormy sea (Getty Images/da-kuk)

Hurricanes are disasters on land. Are they just as destructive to marine life under the sea?

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Tired healthcare worker sitting on the floor (Getty Images/bymuratdeniz)

The doctors with long COVID who have been left behind

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A spooky horror concept of a monster with glowing eyes, hiding in a tree trunk, in a dark spooky forest. (Getty Images/David Wall)

5 common nightmares and what they could mean for your mental health, according to a dream expert

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This image captures not only Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, but one of the celestial specimens Rubin Observatory will observe when it comes online: the Milky Way. (Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/B. Quint)

“Like Google for the sky”: Vera Rubin Observatory will map the universe with more detail than ever

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Mosquito in old book with mosquito swatter and blood stain (Getty Images/Nikola Nastasic)

Mosquito-borne illnesses are picking up speed. Experts say Americans are unprepared

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The young woman holds onto the prescription bottle while she listens to the doctor (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

Treatments for stimulant use disorder are scarce or nonexistent. The FDA hopes to change that

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Swetlana Rot prepares water samples in a laboratory of the Saxony-Anhalt State Office for Environmental Protection in Halle/Saale. The scientists here examine wastewater for the coronavirus pathogen. (Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

A lapse in COVID wastewater detection is worrying scientists about distorted data

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Doctor holding patient leg while he is sitting (Getty Images/miniseries)

Guillain-Barré syndrome more common after COVID-19 infection, study suggests

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The Pillars of Creation are set off in a kaleidoscope of color in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared-light view. The pillars look like arches and spires rising out of a desert landscape, but are filled with semi-transparent gas and dust, and ever changing. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Joseph DePasquale, Anton M. Koekemoer, Alyssa Pagan)

Cosmic melody: Astronomical data can be converted to music, revealing the universe like never before

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