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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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Jeff Bezos speaks about his flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard into space during a press conference on July 20, 2021 in Van Horn, Texas. Mr. Bezos and the crew that flew with him were the first human spaceflight for the company. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

There’s a psychological explanation for why the super-rich are obsessed with space

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Group of students wearing protective face masks while raising their hands in class. (Getty Images/Fat Camera)

Many schools will reopen without vaccine or masking mandates. Here’s what’s at stake

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Covid-19 Delta Variant concept (Getty Images/Andriy Onufriyenko)

How worried should we be about the delta variant? Scientists weigh in

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Hubble Space Telescope (Getty Images/James Benet)

The Hubble Space Telescope’s weird computer glitch, explained

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Allergic man blowing on wipe in a park on spring season a sunny day (Getty Images/Pheelings Media)

It’s not a fluke: Allergy season is out of control this year

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Comparison of craniums, with the Harbin "Dragon Man" skull on the right. (Kai Geng)

Not everyone is convinced “Dragon Man” is a new species of archaic human

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Undertaker worker dressed in full protective clothing and mask pushes a coffin carrying a deceased Covid-19 victim into a mortuary van at a morgue on April 2, 2020. (Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images)

Misinformation, vaccine accessibility hurdles result in hundreds of COVID-19 deaths each week

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This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova explosion with a rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in its center. In October 2017, astronomers detected the merger of two neutron stars some 130 million light-years away. (Getty/NASA)

The discovery of a new type of supernova explains a stellar explosion from A.D. 1054

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A mobile vaccination site is seen on Flatbush Avenue on June 09, 2021 in the Flatbush neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Mobile vaccine clinics have made vaccines more accessible — and could be the future of public health

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Passengers pet dogs at Dmitri Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk International Airport as part of the Emotional Support Dog project (Andrei SamsonovTASS via Getty Images)

As air travel starts up again, emotional support animals get left behind

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New eruption of the Etna volcano in Sicily. (Marco Restivo/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

The “pulse” of the Earth: Disastrous geologic events happen every 27 million years, study finds

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Doctor put label COVID-19 vaccine sticker on vaccination card (Getty Images)

Some states are mandating digital vaccine “passports” — while other states are banning them outright

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Diver swims with a whale (Getty Images/Orla)

Could a human actually be engulfed by a whale? A marine biologist weighs in

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Magnetic Vaccine concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Andrey Popov/Robin Olimb)

Why anti-vaxxers are stuck on the “magnetic vaccine” conspiracy theory

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A QAnon supporter holds a sign during a protest at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem on May 2, 2020. (Getty Images)

From workplaces to politics to Instagram influencers, “cultish” language is everywhere

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New covid-19 coronavirus mutation (Getty Images)

A vaccinated person’s guide to the most concerning COVID-19 strains

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Disabled father preparing food with son in the kitchen (Getty Images)

“I had to be all things for my husband”: Meet the caregivers whose lives were upended by COVID

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Anti-vaccine activists hold signs and chant in front of the Massachusetts State House against Governor Charlie Baker's mandate that all Massachusetts school students enrolled in child care, pre-school, K-12, and post-secondary institutions must receive the flu vaccine this year on August 30, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

The anti-vaccine movement is trying to co-opt Juneteenth

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Nurse Practitioner Terri Welch administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to a patient at the Haxby and Wigginton Group Medical Practice in Haxby, northern England on December 22, 2020. (LINDSEY PARNABY/AFP via Getty Images)

We asked doctors when we’ll know if we need COVID-19 booster shots

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Planet Venus (Albert Klein/Getty Images)

Two newly-approved Venus missions will get us closer to knowing if Venus has cloud-based life

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Pensive woman in bed (Getty/A75)

Before the pandemic, they were introverts. Now they aspire to live more extroverted lives

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Black Hole (Getty Images)

Dark matter’s weirdness could be explained by a new, as-yet-unseen fundamental force

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Cicadas (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

How to eat and cook with cicadas, according to an expert

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Massive black holes in nebula (Getty Images/ sakkmesterke)

New map shows how dark matter “bridges” tether galaxies

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