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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 upcoming book “Your Brain on Altruism: The Power of Connection and Community During Times of Crisis.”

Homeless people gather on Willow Street in the Tenderloin on Wednesday, May 6, 2020 in San Francisco, California. (Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

An RV park housing the homeless in San Francisco has become a runaway success story

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Mark Marston slides a MERV 13 air filtration filter back into the HVAC system outside of this gym Basics Fitness Center on Tuesday, July 21, 2020. (Brianna Soukup/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

As wildfire smoke chokes the West Coast, people are making DIY air purifiers. But do they work?

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Planet Venus (Getty Images)

Cloud-based life? Scientists believe there may be alien microbes floating in Venus’ atmosphere

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Yahoo and Verizon workers protest (Jeff Barrera/Silicon Valley Rising)

Silicon Valley’s service workers speak out about their treatment amid the pandemic

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A burned residence smolders during the Bear fire, part of the North Lightning Complex fires, in unincorporated Butte County, California on September 09, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Is this year’s horrific wildfire season a fluke, or the new normal?

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The sky turns red over the town on January 04, 2020 in Bodalla, Australia. A state of emergency has been declared across NSW with dangerous fire conditions forecast for Saturday, as more than 140 bushfires continue to burn. (Brett Hemmings/Getty Images)

Why west coast wildfires are turning the skies red

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Rideshare drivers demonstrate against rideshare companies Uber and Lyft during a car caravan protest on August 6, 2020 (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Lyft laid off contract janitors while spending $17.5 million on an astroturf ballot measure

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Man and Child with Large Watermelons. (Found Image Holdings/Getty Images)

Why giant watermelon growers get hooked on their hobby: “We grow to push the limits”

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Illustration of two black holes orbiting each other (Getty Images)

Gravitational wave telescopes have revealed a long-predicted, new class of black hole

Nicole Karlis
A healthcare worker tends to a patient in the Covid-19 Unit at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas on July 2, 2020. (MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images)

White House doc’s “herd immunity” plan may lead to long-term heart problems for many Americans

Nicole Karlis
A worker wears a mask and gloves as she hands soft drinks to a customer at a McDonald's drive-thru on April 22, 2020 in Novato, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

“Climate of fear”: McDonald’s workers couldn’t even wash hands, worker complaint alleges

Nicole Karlis
A homeless encampment at Echo Park Lake during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic ( Araya Diaz/Getty Images)

Wildfire smoke adds to compounding crises for the Bay Area’s homeless

Nicole Karlis
Hurricane Laura is seen here approaching the U.S. Gulf Coast on Wednesday. The image is taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. (NASA)

A hurricane hunter describes what it feels like to fly inside Hurricane Laura’s eye

Nicole Karlis
The sky over a solar tower of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory under the Russian Academy of Sciences, located in the village of Nauchny, Bakhchisaray District, southwestern Crimea. (Sergei MalgavkoTASS via Getty Images)

“The sky has changed”: Astronomers say SpaceX satellites are interfering with their observations

Nicole Karlis
Heavy smoke from nearby wild fires covers the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco on August 20, 2020 as seen from the Marin Headlands in Sausalito, California. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

Why California’s wildfires keep getting worse

Nicole Karlis
Asteroid (Getty Images)

“Election Day asteroid” has a small chance of hitting Earth — but it definitely won’t hurt anyone

Nicole Karlis
The wildfire spreads on August 19, 2020 in San Mateo, California. (Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images)

Wildfires, coronavirus collide in California to create a “perfect storm”

Nicole Karlis
Rideshare drivers demonstrate against rideshare companies Uber and Lyft during a car caravan protest on August 6, 2020 (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Uber and Lyft win in California, for now — but their drivers aren’t giving up the fight

Nicole Karlis
Donald Trump | Still from Mary Formanek's video highlighting the dark UX elements of Donald Trump's campaign website (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Tiktok/@uxwithmary)

A UX designer breaks down the intentionally malicious design of Trump’s campaign website

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Friends wearing masks (Getty Images)

How the pandemic is straining our friendships

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edics work with a COVID-19 patient at the isolation ward of Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan near the coastal city of Tel Aviv, on July 29, 2020. (JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Can you get coronavirus twice? Promising new studies say probably not

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Uber Technologies headquarters in San Francisco, California. (Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images)

Uber issues an empty threat to cease operations in California

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Russian President Vladimir Putin ( Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)

We asked scientists whether Russia’s rush-job coronavirus vaccine is safe

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Uber/Lyft drivers conduct a ‘caravan protest' (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

California judge orders Uber and Lyft to reclassify drivers as employees

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