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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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Divorce over QAnon (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Meet the spouses whose marriages were destroyed by QAnon

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People line up for COVID-19 vaccinations at Nassau Community College on January 10, 2021 in Garden City, New York. Nassau County now has two vaccine centers as another 3.2 million New Yorkers become eligible for the vaccine (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

Vaccine “scavengers” are waiting outside clinics for leftover doses — and their strategy often works

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People in face masks waiting in line for vaccination (Getty Images)

You’re vaccinated now. What can you do?

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A health worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 at the Versalles Clinic, in Cali, Colombia, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic on February 19, 2021. (LUIS ROBAYO/AFP via Getty Images)

COVID-19 survivors may be protected with just a “one-and-done” vaccine

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Student debt with sad face written on white sticky note on top of cash money with stack of money and coins (Getty Images)

Student debt is causing a mental health crisis. Forgiving it would ease distress for millions

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Fired executive woman with protective mask packing personal belongings on a box at the office at night (Getty Images)

Women’s participation in the workforce hasn’t been this low since 1988

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Perseverance rover on Mars (NASA)

NASA’s helicopter-bearing Perseverance rover sticks the Mars landing

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Pike Electric service trucks line up after a snow storm on February 16, 2021 in Fort Worth, Texas. Winter storm Uri has brought historic cold weather and power outages to Texas as storms have swept across 26 states with a mix of freezing temperatures and precipitation. (Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)

Why America’s power grids will keep failing us

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A Meteor glowing as it enters the Earth's atmosphere (Getty Images)

Why some scientists think a comet, not an asteroid, caused the dinosaurs to go extinct

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Laughing Couple Lying On Bed With Dog At Home (Getty images)

The coronavirus pandemic is making many Americans rethink having kids

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Anthony Fauci, director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH, testifies at a Senate Health, Education, and Labor and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill, on September 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. Dr. Fauci addressed the testing of vaccines and if they will be ready by the end of the year or early 2021. (Graeme Jennings- Pool/Getty Images)

Fauci says it will be “open season” for COVID-19 vaccine by April

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Kids on smartphones (Getty Images)

A generation of kids has used social media their whole lives. Here’s how it’s changing them

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Coronavirus vaccine bottle with a Red-colored passport (Getty Images)

Heralded as key to returning to normal, digital “vaccine passport” plans prompt Orwellian concerns

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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the national economy and the need for his administration's proposed $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief legislation in the State Dining Room at the White House on February 05, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden hosted lawmakers from both parties at the White House this week in an effort to push his pandemic relief plan forward. (Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

Biden says the pandemic response he inherited from Trump was “more dire” than he’d thought

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Life on Mars (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why some scientists believe life may have started on Mars

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An elderly man, a resident of the sprawling township of Alexandra in Johannesburg, opens his mouth to receive a testing swab for COVID-19 coronavirus at a screening and testing drive in front of the Madala Hostel, on April 27, 2020. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) (MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

A new COVID vaccine is 66% effective — but how much does vaccine efficacy matter?

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Young guy and girl sitting on a couch looking bored (Getty Images)

Is the pandemic making our social skills decay? Psychologists think so

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Pregnant woman standing by the big window with face medical mask on (Getty Images)

Pregnant women pass coronavirus antibodies to placenta, study finds

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An empty public restroom (Getty Images)

Is it safe to use public restrooms during the pandemic?

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Ill woman checking thermometer having fever (Getty Images)

Doctors puzzled as to why coronavirus is affecting some women’s menstrual cycles

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Patients wait and are observed for an adverse reactions following their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine at the Amazon Meeting Center in downtown Seattle, Washington on January 24, 2021. - Amazon is partnering with Virginia Mason for a one-day pop-up clinic on January 24. 2021 that aims to vaccinate 2,000 people at the companys Meeting Center near downtown Seattle. Virginia Mason is handling vaccine administration, while Amazon is providing the location and help with logistics. (GRANT HINDSLEY/AFP via Getty Images)

Despite attempts at equity, white Americans are being vaccinated at higher rate than Blacks, Latinos

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N95 and KN95 Face Masks (Getty Images)

COVID-19 face masks: How high-filtration masks — like the KN95, N95 and KN94 — differ

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Ludwig Joseph and granddaughter, Nicole Karlis | Ludwig with family and friends on vacation (Photo illustration. by Salon/Nicole Karlis/USC Shoah Foundation)

My grandfather survived the Holocaust. Here’s what his story tells me about today

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Pete Buttigieg, U.S. secretary of transportation nominee for U.S. President Joe Biden, puts on a protective mask during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee confirmation hearing on January 21, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Buttigieg, is pledging to carry out the administration’s ambitious agenda to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure, calling it a “generational opportunity” to create new jobs, fight economic inequality and stem climate change. (Stefani Reynolds - Pool/Getty Images)

The case for (and against) wearing two masks

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