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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.”

Brain scans (Getty Images/Andrew Brookes)

Even a mild COVID-19 infection can shrink your brain, study finds

Nicole Karlis
Child getting vaccinated (Getty Images/vgajic)

Experts say vaccine effectiveness for young children isn’t waning, despite some reports

Nicole Karlis
Three generations of NIke air defense missiles showing, L-R Ajax (1953), Hercules (1958), and Zeus (1960), late 1960s or early 1970s. The Hercules & Zeus had nuclear warhead carrying capabilities. (Adam Glickman/Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

Why scientists still can’t figure out how to intercept nuclear missiles

Nicole Karlis
A patient infected by the covid-19 caused by the novel coronavirus receives treatment at the intensive care unit of a hospital in the southwestern Tunisian town of Gabes on August 26, 2020, as cases of infection surge there. (FETHI BELAID/AFP via Getty Images)

Why a life-saving, last-resort treatment for COVID-19 is so hard to access

Nicole Karlis
Participants display Qanon flags at an event marking the 7th anniversary of the Pegida movement. The flag features the head of Russian President Putin, the Q for "Qanon" and the letter abbreviation WWG1WGA ("Where we go one we go all"). Meaning "Where one of us goes, we all go", or "One for all, all for one". With this, the Qanon followers evoke the cohesion of their community. (Matthias Rietschel/picture alliance via Getty Images)

QAnon followers are casting Putin in a positive light

Nicole Karlis
James Webb Space Telescope looking at galaxies (Photo illustration by NASA)

Why scientists think we could find extraterrestrial intelligence by searching for pollutants

Nicole Karlis
Senior man with dogs and cat on his lap on bench (Getty Images/Jevtic)

Having a dog or cat can slow cognitive decline in seniors, new study finds

Nicole Karlis
Baby playing with hanging mobile (Getty Images/Guido Mieth)

No, the CDC didn’t “lower standards” for childhood development because of the pandemic

Nicole Karlis
Over the counter Allergy relief medication (Jeff Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

COVID “long-haulers” may have finally found relief in inexpensive, over-the-counter drugs

Nicole Karlis
Yellow-Headed Blackbird (Getty Images/Brian Reinke)

Scientists think they know why hundreds of birds mysteriously fell from the sky in Mexico

Nicole Karlis
Young pregnant woman being examined during pregnancy while coronavirus pandemic (Getty Images)

The pandemic is almost over — unless you’re pregnant

Nicole Karlis
Doctor examining a woman at home and listening to her chest with a stethoscope (Getty Images/Hispanolistic)

Covid-recovered patients are seeing a huge rise in heart-related issues

Nicole Karlis
This artist’s impression shows a close-up view of Proxima d, a planet candidate recently found orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. The planet is believed to be rocky and to have a mass about a quarter that of Earth. Two other planets known to orbit Proxima Centauri are visible in the image too: Proxima b, a planet with about the same mass as Earth that orbits the star every 11 days and is within the habitable zone, and candidate Proxima c, which is on a longer five-year orbit around the star. (ESO/L. Calçada)

Astronomers discover a tiny planet orbiting our nearest galactic neighbor

Nicole Karlis
Silhouette Couple Holding Hands During Sunset (Getty Images / Siam Pukkato / EyeEm)

Do “attachment styles” really matter in relationships?

Nicole Karlis
Set of syringes with medication (Anna Efetova/Getty Images)

COVID-19 vaccine authorization for children under 5 delayed

Nicole Karlis
Melatonin supplements and sleep mask (Getty Images/lanasphotos)

Americans are popping melatonin to get to sleep. Researchers say it may not be helping

Nicole Karlis
Second-grade pupils wear face masks as they attend school lessons (INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)

As states drop school mask mandates, health experts clash on whether it’s too soon

Nicole Karlis
Artist rendition of an asteroid pair, shortly after separation. Over millennia these objects will drift apart and become harder to identify. At 300 years old, the asteroid pair 2019 PR2 and 2019 QR6 are the youngest found to date. (UC Berkeley/SETI Institute)

Astronomers discover a pair of young “twin” asteroids, barely older than the United States

Nicole Karlis
Female medical professional in Personal Protective Equipment (Getty Images)

We asked healthcare professionals about their face masks of choice for everyday use

Nicole Karlis
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) (Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images)

Fox News guests use questionable lockdown study to launch misleading attacks on masks, vaccines

Nicole Karlis, Igor Derysh
Joe Rogan (Michael S. Schwartz/Getty Images)

Joe Rogan can’t stop pushing ivermectin as a COVID treatment. Experts are tired of debunking him

Nicole Karlis
Side view with focus on background of woman in late 50s traveling with teenage daughter and squeezing sanitizer into her hand while flying in time of COVID-19. (Getty Images/xavierarnau)

How omicron changes the calculus of risk on airplanes

Nicole Karlis
Magnetar. An artist’s impression of what the object might look like if it’s a magnetar. Magnetars are incredibly magnetic neutron stars, some of which sometimes produce radio emission. Known magnetars rotate every few seconds, but theoretically, “ultra-long period magnetars” could rotate much more slowly. (Photo courtesy of The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR))

In Earth’s galactic backyard, a never-before-seen space anomaly blinks on and off

Nicole Karlis
Nurses take care of a patient infected with the Covid-19 at the intensive care unit of the Timone hospital, in Marseille, southern France on January 5, 2022. (NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP via Getty Images)

Many of those stricken with omicron say this supposedly “mild” variant isn’t so mild

Nicole Karlis
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