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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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Melatonin supplements and sleep mask (Getty Images/lanasphotos)

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

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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

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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

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Female medical professional in Personal Protective Equipment (Getty Images)

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

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

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

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Joe Rogan (Michael S. Schwartz/Getty Images)

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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

Omicron variant of COVID may be the most contagious virus to ever exist, scientists say

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Himesh Patel in "Station Eleven" (Ian Watson/HBO Max)

Could a super-deadly flu like the one in “Station Eleven” really exist?

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Engineering teams at NASAs James Webb Space Telescope Mission Operations Center at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore monitor progress as the observatory's second primary mirror wing rotates into position, on January 8, 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland. Webb, an infrared telescope with a 21.3-foot (6.5-meter) primary mirror, was folded up for launch and underwent an unprecedented deployment process to unfold in space. As NASA's next flagship observatory, Webb will study every phase of cosmic history from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)

James Webb Space Telescope: When to expect the first images from the state-of-the-art observatory

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A health worker prepares to administers a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine (Varuth Pongsapipatt/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Do face shields actually do anything to protect us? Here’s what we know

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Laboratory assistant director Stella Atewe analyses chemistry profiles at the Lagos State Isolation Centre in Yaba, Lagos, on January 22, 2021. - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria is increasing rapidly following daily reports by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) even as Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, accounted for the highest number of cases in the country. (PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images)

The astoundingly low COVID-19 infection rate in sub-Saharan Africa may be a mirage

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Ultrasound pregnancy examination of a young woman in a Medical Clinic during COVID-19 outbreak (Getty Images)

The delta variant is infecting placentas, likely causing stillbirths

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Covid-19 Omicron variant (Getty Images/Andriy Onufriyenko)

How likely is it for omicron to mutate into something deadlier?

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Doctor in PPE that includes a face shield and two face masks is on duty in the Zakarpattia Regional Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital that treats COVID-19 patients, Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia Region, western Ukraine. (Serhii Hudak/ Ukrinform/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

To combat labor shortages, states are letting healthcare workers work while positive for COVID

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COVID-19 home rapid test kits are seen on a shelf at a Walmart Neighborhood Market in Orlando, Florida. Walmart and Kroger are raising the price for the hard-to-find BinaxNOW rapid tests after the directive from the White House to sell them at cost has expired. Test kits that were formerly sold for $14 will now retail for $19.88 at Walmart and $23.99 at Kroger. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Why are at-home COVID tests so hard to find?

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Mister Ed the talking horse and Alan Young in a scene from the television series 'Mister Ed', circa 1960. (The Mister Ed Company/Getty Images)

Can any animal learn to speak with buttons like Bunny the “talking” dog does?

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Tampons and vaccines (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Don’t worry – the COVID vaccine could affect your period, but it’s temporary

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A young girl sick in bed (Sac C Wat'hn Buy Thna Thwi Phl / EyeEm / Getty Images)

How omicron is affecting children more than previous strains

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Man talking to his dog (Getty Images/Westend61)

Dogs have the potential to be bilingual, a recent study finds

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Growth of trees in drought crisis (Getty Images/R_Tee)

Climate change making you anxious? There’s a therapist who can help you with that

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Steve Farzam, chief operating officer of 911 COVID Testing, shows a multiple antigen test for flu and COVID-19 on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 at the site near the Getty Center in Los Angeles where a teenage boy tested positive for "Flurona. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

Flu, coronavirus, or all of the above? More unlucky Americans are catching both at the same time

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