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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.”

Close up of a man refusing to wear his protective face mask. (Getty Images)

States, businesses react to CDC statement that fully vaccinated can go maskless

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Two fists with man's and woman's face are collide with each other on coronavirus background (Getty Images)

My family won’t get the vaccine because they say it hasn’t been “FDA approved”

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Doctor disinfecting arm of patient in volunteer clinic (Getty Images)

The COVID-19 vaccines will soon be available for children. Why did it take so long?

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Mold (Getty Images)

The “black fungus” that’s infecting COVID-19 patients in India, explained

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A NASA image of one of the Voyager space probes. Voyager 1 and its identical sister craft Voyager 2 were launched in 1977 to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. (NASA/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Voyager 1 probe is now so far away that it can hear the background “hum” of interstellar space

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Bunny the talking Dog (Instagram/@what_about_bunny)

Bunny, the dog that can “talk,” starts asking existential questions

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U.S. birth rates continue to decline, are now below replacement levels

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A colorful scene of gorgonian giant sea fan and soft corals on a rock in a coral reefs (Getty Images/Credit: Sirachai Arunrugstichai)

Corals use sound to “talk” to each other, new research says

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An illustration of NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter flying on Mars (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Ingenuity keeps breaking records as it prepares for the next phase of its mission

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Man refusing to get injection of vaccine (Getty Images)

Do mRNA vaccines affect my DNA?

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Senior couple on beach (Roger Wright/Getty Images)

Why scientists still don’t know how long humans can live

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Scared man sitting with his eyes closed during coronavirus vaccination in a hospital (Getty Images)

Many vaccine reactions were actually anxiety, CDC states

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Kids having a yoga class (Getty Images)

Inside the fight to overturn a ban on yoga in Alabama’s public schools

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Couple in medical masks arguing (Getty Images)

My husband refuses to get vaccinated

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Vector of a graph showing decline in coronavirus cases (Getty Images)

We’re about to hit an “inflection point” in COVID-19 cases — here’s why

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Two children with a mask on their face and glasses walking through a campground with a colorful inflatable pool tubes (Getty Images)

How kids can summer camp more safely this year, according to the CDC

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A map of the 1956 school district by race in Topeka, Ks., from the implementation arguments in Brown v. Board of Education, part of the new exhibit at the Library of Congress, "With and Even Hand," on the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision on integration. (Chris Maddaloni/Roll Call/Getty Images)

Biden wants to fight racist exclusionary zoning laws. Will it work?

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Anti-vaccine activists protest and hold signs 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)

Vaccine-hesitant, vaccine refusers and anti-vaxxers: There’s a spectrum, and the differences matter

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Boy Eating Multi Colored Breakfast Cereal (Getty Images)

Eating too much sugar could affect how childrens’ brains develop: study

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Mother in swimsuit applying protective face mask on daughter (Getty Images)

I’m vaccinated, my kids aren’t. Will that ruin our summer plans?

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A healthcare worker takes a nasal swab sample from a resident to test for COVID-19 at The Abyssinian Baptist Church in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on May 13, 2020. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

A quarter of the U.S. population is vaccinated. So why are COVID-19 cases still rising?

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Artist's Impression of Dragonfly on Titan’s surface. (NASA/Johns Hopkins AP)

After Ingenuity’s successful Mars flight, NASA plans to fly a huge rotorcraft on Saturn’s moon

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Pack of Gray Wolves (Getty Images)

How the gray wolf survived the Ice Age

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Woman with face mask getting vaccinated (Getty Images)

“Irregular menstrual cycle” isn’t listed as a COVID-19 vaccine side effect — but many report it

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