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Nicole Karlis is an award-winning staff writer at Salon, specializing in health and science. She is also the author of the book “Your Brain on Altruism: The Power of Connection and Community During Times of Crisis.”

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Supermassive Black Hole (Getty Images/solarseven)

A “runaway” supermassive black hole is hurtling through the universe at incredible speeds

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X7 location relative to the supermassive black hole (Anna Ciurlo/UCLA)

A mysterious cloud near the Milky Way’s central black hole is on the verge of destruction

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Pregnant woman sitting in bed (Getty Images/NataliaDeriabina)

An alarming study suggests prenatal alcohol exposure changes the shape of your baby’s face

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Breast pump and bottle of breast milk near computer (Getty Images/JGI/Jamie Grill)

In an era in which women’s rights are under siege, the PUMP Act is a rare victory

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Syringes with Moderna's COVID vaccine are prepared at the vaccination center at Brill. (Sina Schuldt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Idaho lawmakers want to criminalize mRNA vaccines. Here’s what happens if their bill passes

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Officials continue to conduct operation and inspect the area after the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, United States on February 17, 2023. (US Environmental Protection Agency / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

How non-scientists can assess the danger of mystery chemicals

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Workers clocking in at 10 pm, at the start of the night shift at the Philips electrical works in Mitcham, London, March 04, 1947. (Keystone/Getty Images)

Sleep patterns changed in the past 200 years. Some experts think we were better off before

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3D illustration of white damaged sperm cells swimming (Getty Images/Christoph Burgstedt)

In a post-Roe world, the quest to create a male birth control drug has a renewed urgency

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This photo taken on April 16, 2010 shows a giant NASA science balloon being inflated at the launch site near Alice Springs. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Why aliens wouldn’t spy on humans with balloons

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Mifepristone (Mifeprex) and Misoprostol, the two drugs used in a medication abortion (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

A new post-Roe reality: What will medical abortion look like if Trump judge bans mifepristone pill?

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The Sparkler galaxy provides a snap-shot of an infant Milky Way as it accretes mass over cosmic time. This image shows an artist impression of our Milky Way galaxy in its youth. (James Josephides/Swinburne University)

NASA’s James Webb telescope discovers new galaxy that “mirrors the early Milky Way”

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Cat Allergy (Getty Images/elenaleonova)

Would you give up your cat for love?

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Senior Couple Embracing At Park (Getty Images/Robert Kneschke/EyeEm)

The marriage conundrum: Research suggests single people live shorter lives

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Artist’s conception of a rocky Earth-mass exoplanet, called Kepler-1649c, orbiting a red dwarf star. (NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter)

Astronomers find a potentially habitable exoplanet right in Earth’s galactic backyard

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Woman's reproductive health, concept (Getty Images/mi-viri)

Certain foods increase your risk of ovarian cancer — but there’s a surprising way to prevent it

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Osteopathic Treatment of Infant (BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Parents are increasingly taking babies to the chiropractor. Is it safe?

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Bonobo babies play with a mirror (Getty Images/ANDREYGUDKOV)

These are the only 8 animals that can recognize themselves in the mirror (besides humans)

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Groundhog in Space (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why Groundhog Day has its roots in astronomy

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A visualization of the Itokawa asteroid, which was visited by the Japanese Hayabusa1 mission. (JAXA/Curtin University)

Asteroids made of “rubble” might be very, very hard to destroy, astronomers say

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Woman eating an almond (Getty Images/Dima Berlin)

With “almond moms,” TikTok coins an epithet for a diet culture–obsessed parent

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Young pregnant woman sitting in front of her laptop (Getty Images/damircudic)

Why pregnancy forums are rife with health misinformation

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A nurse prepares a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine for a patient at University Hospital Coventry on April 22, 2022 in Coventry, England. (Jacob King - WPA Pool / Getty Images)

Bivalent boosters protect against the super-infectious new variant XBB.1.5, new data finds

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An NHS staff prepares to administer the Covid-19 vaccination booster jab during a press tour at a vaccination center (Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Simplifying the vaccine: Why a new COVID booster each fall could be the norm moving forward

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Happy family with two kids (Getty Images/kate_sept2004)

Millennial moms and dads are consciously striving to parent differently than Boomers, study finds

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