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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.

Demonstrator waving the Trans flag (Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Gender-affirming surgeries almost tripled between 2016 and 2019: study

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Mexican Hogfish (Reinhard Dirscherlullstein bild via Getty Images)

This fish changes its color like a chameleon. New research suggests it can “see” with its skin

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Mutating virus variant (Getty Images/wildpixel)

A new COVID variant nicknamed “Pirola” is raising global alarm but don’t freak out yet

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This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets' diameters, masses and distances from the host star, as of February 2018. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

From star to stars: Astrophysicist Aomawa Shields traces her journey from acting to astronomy

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A lonely man is sitting on the bed (Getty Images/Nes)

Older LGBTQ adults fear going back “in the closet” upon entering assisted living

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A man rows his boat in Acapulco, Guerrero State, Mexico, on August 16, 2023, following the passage of Tropical Storm Hilary. (Getty Images / FRANCISCO ROBLES / AFP)

Now classified as a hurricane, Hilary could touch down in southwestern U.S. this weekend

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Pouncing Saber Tooth (Getty Images/Daniel Eskridge)

Catastrophic fires 13,000 years ago drove mass extinctions — and humans may have lit the match

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(Getty/Stuart Ritchie)

“Problematic” use of opioid settlement money opposed by coalition of public health organizations

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The aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina, western Maui, Hawaii on August 11, 2023. A wildfire that left Lahaina in charred ruins has killed at least 67 people, authorities said on August 11, making it one of the deadliest disasters in the US state's history. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

“It looked like Armageddon”: Maui wildfire survivors describe their experience fleeing destruction

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Himalayas, Mt. Everest, Khumbu Valley, Nepal (Getty Images/John Harper)

Scientists radically rethink how the Himalayas formed millions of years ago, adjusting their age

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Portraits of Ada Lovelace, Eunice Foote, Nettie Stevens, Alice Augusta Ball and Lise Meitner. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/WikiCommons/The Tuttle Company)

Eclipsed genius: Despite modest progress, sexism and racism persist in science

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Maxar satellite imagery showing total destruction of the Lahaina square and outlets after the Lahaina Wildfire, with one building still actively burning. (Satellite image (c) 2023 Maxar Technologies / Getty Images)

Maui’s wildfires overwhelmed hospitals with victims. Is this a preview of our climate future?

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US President Joe Biden (C) gestures after signing a proclamation to designate Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, at Red Butte Airfield, 25 miles (40kms) south of Tusayan, Arizona, on August 8, 2023. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

A win for Indigenous rights as Biden grants Grand Canyon area national monument status

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Common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) in flight (Getty Images/imageBROKER/Dieter Mahlke)

Bats are driven away by solar farms, but fossil fuels are still far more harmful: study

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3D model of the novel Coronavirus (Getty Images)

Latest COVID mutation EG.5 seems to be driving a recent surge in cases

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New mom closes her eyes as she kisses her baby's hand. (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

In a first, FDA approves fast-acting postpartum depression pill

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Carrizo Plain National Monument (Bob Wick/Bureau of Land Management)

Bureau of Land Management orders removal of oil wells in California’s Carrizo Plain

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Girl with sanitary pads and tampons in pocket (Getty/Isabel Pavia)

New evidence suggests early puberty can be triggered by pandemic stress

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Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) on human skin (Getty Images/epantha)

Tick-related meat allergies are on the rise — yet most doctors don’t recognize the symptoms

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Scene setter images outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 in Atlanta, GA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Leprosy is probably endemic to central Florida, CDC reports, posing yet another public health threat

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Artistic reconstruction of a group of Burgessomedusa phasmiformis swimming in the Cambrian sea (Reconstruction by Christian McCall)

Researchers announce Pac-Man ghost-shaped jellyfish is the oldest in fossil record

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A tubular hydrothermal vent that releases hot water, known as a "black smoker", in the Pacific Ocean (Getty Images/Ralph White)

Scientists warn deep sea mining could be an environmental disaster as regulation negotiations stall

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