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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Asteroid (Getty Images)

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

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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”

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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)

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

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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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An artist's rendering of NASA's Juno spacecraft making a pass over Jupiter. (NASA)

Scientists issue a forecast for Jupiter: Lightning with a chance of mushballs

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Members of the National Guard talk to out of state drivers at a checkpoint set up to hand out information to those coming in from out of state about self-quarantining for 14 days to try to reduce the spread of coronavirus on March 30, 2020 in Hope Valley, RI. Out of state drivers were directed to pull over on I-95 into a rest area between Exits 2 and 3 to speak to the National Guard. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Many states have travel quarantines. Few are being enforced

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

Rideshare drivers stage protest while Uber and Lyft fight in court to keep them poor

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Artist’s interpretation of the calcium-rich supernova 2019ehk. Shown in orange is the calcium-rich material created in the explosion. Purple coloring represents gas shedded by the star right before the explosion, which then produced bright X-ray emission when the material collided with the supernova shockwave. (Aaron M. Geller, Northwestern University)

Astrophysicists discover new insights from a rare supernova that gave us the calcium in our bones

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TikTok influencers Marie-Victoire Tiangue and Raphaël Curron ( PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

TikTok provides influencers income during the pandemic, but a ban could ruin that

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Communications satellite orbiting Earth (Getty Images)

Move over, SpaceX – Amazon is sending its own satellites into orbit

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies before a House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing on July 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump administration officials are set to defend the federal government's response to the coronavirus crisis at the hearing hosted by a House panel calling for a national plan to contain the virus. (Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images)

Dr. Fauci says it’s not “dreaming” that a coronavirus vaccine could arrive by 2021

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Portrait Of Smiling Woman Standing Against White Background (Getty Images)

Scrutinizing the #ChallengeAccepted meme: Why do selfies have to be justified as activism?

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on Online Platforms and Market Power in the Rayburn House office Building, July 29, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Mandel Ngan-Pool/Getty Images)

The beginning of the end for Big Tech? Congress grills Facebook & Amazon over abuse of market power

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