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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.

Lost Man (Getty Images/gremlin)

That familiar unfamiliar feeling: What the opposite of déjà vu can tell us about cognitive delusions

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Galactic trash orbiting Earth (Getty Images/janiecbros)

How to avoid “zombie” satellites causing atmospheric destruction? Send them to this ocean graveyard

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Asteroid approaching planet Earth (Getty Images/dzika_mrowka)

“Building blocks of life” found in NASA’s Bennu asteroid sample

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A protester holds up a placard demanding research into Long Covid-19 during the demonstration. (Martin Pope/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Another report minimizes long COVID risk. Long haulers say the threat is being ignored

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Pregnant woman at her doctor appointment prenatal care (Getty Images/Adene Sanchez)

Women’s pain is often brushed off in medicine. When will it be taken seriously?

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Father and child playing with blocks (Getty Images/AleksandarNakic)

Why your brain is hungry for more play, according to a child development expert

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The researchers think that infrared light particles (photons) from the poles of the pulsar are boosted to gamma-ray energies (blue) by fast electrons. (Science Communication Lab for DESY)

Vera pulsar pouring out 200 times more energy than thought possible, scientists discover

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Surgeon wearing a medical mask (Getty Images/pipat wongsawang)

Mask mandates are returning to some hospitals. Should they be there to stay?

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A covid-19 vaccine is seen with the Novavax logo in the background. (Photo Illustration by Nikos Pekiaridis/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine gets the green light from the FDA, giving third option for protection

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Monk Parakeet (Getty Images/iculizard)

Monk parakeets have “voiceprints” that identify themselves in groups just like humans, study finds

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Holding a large mushroom (Photo courtesy of MycoMeditations)

Magic mushroom retreat centers can offer healing — but their lack of regulation can carry risks

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Kim Nguyen, pharmacist, prepares to give a Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine at CVS, 12550 Louetta Rd., Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, in Cypress, Texas. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

This year’s chaotic vaccine rollout is wildly different than before. Can we fix it in time?

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Paramedics carrying patient in ambulance at night (Getty Images/Cavan Images)

Decriminalizing drugs in Oregon and Washington isn’t associated with overdose increases, study finds

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Planet Mars (Getty Images/SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

A simple algorithm could reveal the ghosts of alien life in Mars dirt, study finds

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Accretion of a star by a supermassive black hole (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK)

Fast food: Black holes devour stars much quicker than we thought

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Drag n' Tag (Photo courtesy of University of Miami)

Meet Miss Toto, the drag queen serving up shark science in South Florida

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Woman holding tablet showing pregnancy illustration (Getty Images/Klaus Vedfelt)

Can your body “remember” pregnancy? A new study in mice suggests so

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Bottles of the generic prescription pain medication Buprenorphine are seen in a pharmacy (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Overdoses are soaring, but medications can reduce death by 50 percent. So why aren’t we using them?

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A group of volunteers removing trash from the side of the Truckee river in Mustang Ranch Trail. (Ty ONeil/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The next-generation “forest army”: Biden launches civilian climate corps program

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Clinician looking out window in a hospital (Getty Images/shironosov)

Bomb threats and violence: Pediatric gender-affirming care providers fear for their lives

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Pink flower inside a book (Getty Images/Alicia Llop)

The history of the word “vagina” illuminates our persistent problem with biased reproductive health

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Rushing ambulance at night, US (Getty Images/Marco_Piunti)

Stimulants may be driving a “fourth wave” of the overdose crisis, with deaths at an all-time high

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Hunting Amazons, illustration from 19th century (Getty Images/clu)

Recent evidence suggests prehistoric women were hunters, too. Who said they weren’t? Men, of course

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s high resolution, near-infrared look at Herbig-Haro 211 reveals exquisite detail of the outflow of a young star, an infantile analogue of our Sun. (ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, Tom Ray (Dublin))

Webb telescope photographs baby star resembling our sun blasting hot molecular material

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