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Eric Schank is a fellow at Salon writing for science and health. 

Moon or Planet Being Destroyed Explosion (Getty Images/cokada)

Pentagon-funded research proposed nuking moon in an attempt to discover anti-gravity

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(Getty/sequential5)

Psychedelics permanently alter your understanding of what has “consciousness,” study says

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Antibiotics are placed in petri dishes filled with bacteria. In the dish on the left the bacteria will not develop near the antibiotics. In the right petri dish, antibiotic resistant bacteria are growing. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Scientists record the sound of a single bacterium’s motion

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Electronic cigarettes and pods by Juul, the nation's largest maker of vaping products, are offered for sale at the Smoke Depot on September 13, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ordered e-cigarette product makers to devise a plan to keep their devices away from minors, declaring use by teens has reached an "epidemic proportion". (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Study suggests e-cigarettes can cause brain inflammation — with flavors affecting severity

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Omphalotus nidiformis, or ghost fungus (Getty Images/Louise Docker Sydney Australia)

It’s not a bad trip: Mushrooms may be “talking” to each other, new study finds

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Orangutans (Getty Images/Photo by James Keith)

“More human than we thought”: Orangutans have their own “dialects,” just like us

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Police take protestors out during an action of Scientist Rebellion to denounce the climate situation on April 06, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. Scientists and researchers throw fake blood at the Congress of Deputies building, one of many protests planned across the globe between April 4 to 9,2022 by the international movement Scientist Rebellion. (Aldara Zarraoa/Getty Images)

Scientists arrested for peaceful climate protests around the world say “climate revolution now”

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Firefighters battle the NCAR Fire on March 26, 2022 in Boulder, Colorado. The wildfire, which has forced almost 20,000 people to evacuate their homes, started just a few miles away from where the Marshall Fire destroyed more than 1,000 homes in December. (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

An unprecedented Colorado wildfire is burning despite the presence of snow on the ground

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Clinical support technician Douglas Condie extracts viruses from swab samples so that the genetic structure of a virus can be analysed and identified in the coronavirus testing laboratory at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, on February 19, 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Jane Barlow - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

“Son of omicron” variant is now dominant in the US — and experts say it could herald another wave

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Oil refinery at the waterfront, Honolulu Harbor, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii Islands, USA (Getty Images/Glowimages)

A military fuel leak in Oahu that poisoned the water supply is the tipping point for Hawaiians

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A little girl looking plants growing in raised beds in a backyard (Getty Images/Cavan Images)

Are “doomsday gardens” here to stay?

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Sunflower field at sunset (Kristina Lapinski)

The weird reason symmetry abounds in nature may have to do with our genes striving for efficiency

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Young female and male environmentalist cleaning lake while picking plastic from claw (Getty Images/Maskot)

Biden Administration invests in cleaning up the polluted Great Lakes

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Smog over Los Angeles (Getty Images/Robert Landau)

Smells like teen dispirit? It might be ozone pollution

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Officials from Para State, northern Brazil, inspect a deforested area in the Amazon rain forest during surveillance in the municipality of Pacaja, 620 km from the capital Belem, on September 22, 2021. (EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images)

The Amazon Rainforest is approaching a “tipping point” beyond which it would become barren

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SunCor Energy Refinery in Denver, Colorado. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Panic over spike in energy prices reveals how unprepared Americans are for a gasless future

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This is a schematic of WEC2P deployed in an arid region (Renyuan Li)

Turning the desert green: this solar panel system makes water (and grows food) out of thin air

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Satellite Orbiting Earth (Getty Images/3DSculptor)

How climate-monitoring satellites are exposing Russian military movements

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Firefighters and volunteers try to contain the flames destroying forests and wildlife in Corrientes, Argentina on February 19, 2022. (Joaquin Meabe/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Dire United Nations report warns inaction on climate means death

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Nodules of nitrogen-fixing Rhizobia bacteria on the roots of forage legumes (Getty Images / Bill Barksdale / Design Pics)

Designer bacteria could replace oil-intensive chemical fertilizers

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A jogger makes his way along a flooded Sausalito/Mill Valley bike path during the "King Tide" in Mill Valley, California on Jananury 3, 2022. - "King Tides" occur when the Earth, moon, and sun align in orbit to produce unusually high water levels and can cause local tidal flooding. Over time, sea level rise is raising the height of tidal systems. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Sea levels have been rising since the American Civil War. The reason? Coal

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Gritter maintenance tractor spreading de icing salt on asphalt road (Getty Images/Lubo Ivanko)

Road salt runoff is making freshwater lakes inhospitable

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Yong girl leaning back, distracted during at-home learning on computer (Getty Images/Jamie Grill)

Parents were stuck inside with their kids. A rise in ADHD diagnoses soon followed

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Anti-vaccine rally protesters hold signs outside of Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, on June 26, 2021 (MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images)

Poll: Americans, especially conservatives, have lost trust in scientists since the pandemic started

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