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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.”

This illustration shows the lightning phenomenon known as a sprite and what a sprite could look like in Jupiter's atmosphere. Named after a mischievous, quick-witted character in English folklore, sprites last for only a few milliseconds. They feature a central blob of light with long tendrils of light extending down toward the ground and upward. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI)

Sprites are haunting Jupiter’s atmosphere, NASA spacecraft finds

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A nurse inoculates volunteer Ilya Dubrovin, 36, with Russia's new coronavirus vaccine in a post-registration trials at a clinic in Moscow on September 10, 2020. (Getty Images)

How a misconception about coronavirus immunity is causing thousand of needless deaths

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Couple watching scary movie on the couch (Getty Images)

Why horror movies may be good for your health

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This illustration highlights the Moon’s Clavius Crater with an illustration depicting water trapped in the lunar soil there, along with an image of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) that found sunlit lunar water. (NASA/Daniel Rutter)

What water on the moon means for the future of exploration

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People in face masks working at computers (Getty Images)

The female recession: Why the workplace gender gap is growing during the pandemic

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Young woman dumping wine from a bottle down the drain (Getty Images)

Why the pandemic is inspiring many to give up alcohol

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Carl Chamberlain sanitizes a voting booth between voters inside a tent at a shopping center on the first day of in-person early voting on October 17, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Early voting for the general election in the battleground state continues through October 30. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

How to vote safely in person

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Woman using tablet pc in bed (Getty Images)

How binge-watching affects your health

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A health worker takes a swab sample from a woman at a rapid coronavirus testing station (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

With vaccines stalled, some see coronavirus rapid tests as an alternative way to return to normal

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U.S. President Donald Trump removes his mask upon return to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 05, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump spent three days hospitalized for coronavirus. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Toxic masculinity has become a threat to public health

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A staffer wearing a protective mask prepares cocktails for patrons at O'Neill's Irish Pub in Praça 5 de Outubro on August 23, 2020 in Cascais, Portugal. (Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

Is the pandemic making us drink more, or less? It’s complicated

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Workers at a high school check the temperature to a student before she enters to attend classes in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 13, 2020 amid the virus lockdown against the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic. (JUAN MABROMATA/AFP via Getty Images)

Are temperature checks effective, or just “medical theater”?

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Mark Zuckerberg | Anti-Vax protester (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Facebook bans anti-vax ads — but anti-vax groups remain safe on the platform

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"Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change" by Maggie Smith (Photo illustration by Salon/Patri Hadad/Atria/One Signal Publishers)

Poet Maggie Smith’s new book is a mantra on how to “keep moving” in apocalyptic times

Nicole Karlis
Image of a cluster of galaxies from the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (NASA)

Observation of ancient galaxies provides new clues as to how supermassive black holes form

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office (Oliver Contreras-Pool/Getty Images)

In working while sick, Trump embodies the most toxic aspect of American work culture

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

Pregnant women have COVID-19 symptoms that last longer than average, study finds

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Talking to a therapist about wanting the orange monster to persish (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Feeling guilty about wishing Trump ill? Therapists say it’s a normal reaction to being disempowered

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Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump abruptly halts stimulus negotiations; Pelosi says “the White House is in complete disarray”

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A car with US President Trump drives past supporters in a motorcade outside of Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland on October 4, 2020. - US President Donald Trump drove past supporters outside the hospital where he was being treated for Covid-19, after announcing on Twitter a "suprise visit" to his backers. (ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Secret Service agents “frustrated” by virus exposure risk from Trump’s hospital drive-by stunt

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How the pandemic has changed life for new parents

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U.S. President Donald Trump participates in the first presidential debate against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University on September 29, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. This is the first of three planned debates between the two candidates in the lead up to the election on November 3. (Photo by (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump says he and Melania tested positive for COVID-19

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A ride share driver participates in a protest by drivers and their supporters, August 20, 2020 at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California. - Rideshare service rivals Uber and Lyft were given a temporary reprieve on August 20 from having to reclassify drivers as employees in their home state of California by August 21. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Uber-funded ballot measure in California would create “permanent underclass of workers,” expert says

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TikTok | Benadryl (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Benadryl Challenge” claims the life of one teen as TikTok claims to have already banned the videos

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