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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.”

Woman in front of a device screen in video conference (Getty Images)

“Virtual terrorism”: Far-right trolls are targeting marginalized groups on Zoom calls

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People wearing face masks as a preventive measure walk along the Venice Beach. Los Angeles County reopened its beaches for active use while requiring people to wear face masks and maintain social distancing as the county tries to reduce COVID-19 infections. (Ronen Tivony / Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

California’s sudden spike in coronavirus cases bodes poorly for other states pondering reopening

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

Unable to collect unemployment, New York’s Uber and Lyft drivers are trapped in a catch-22

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Worker in protective gear producing sausage at the Okraina meat processing plant in Murmansk. (Lev FedoseyevTASS via Getty Images)

Trump’s order to reopen meatpacking plants caused a huge coronavirus outbreak among workers

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Fortune teller looking into crystal ball (Getty Images/Salon)

Why business is booming for psychics during the pandemic

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Executive Chairman of Ford William Clay Ford Jr. (L) tour with US President Donald Trump the Ford Rawsonville Plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan on May 21, 2020. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump tours Michigan Ford plant without face mask; state attorney general says he’s not welcome back

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This artist’s impression shows the planet orbiting the Sun-like star HD 85512 in the southern constellation of Vela (The Sail). This planet is one of sixteen super-Earths discovered by the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory. This planet is about 3.6 times as massive as the Earth and lies at the edge of the habitable zone around the star, where liquid water, and perhaps even life, could potentially exist. (ESO/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger)

Astronomers discover a new Earth-like planet thanks to a gravitational miracle

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An engineer shows an experimental vaccine for the COVID-19 coronavirus (NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images)

Why you should take coronavirus vaccine news with a grain of salt

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University of California police contain demonstrators Wednesday at the intersection of Bay and High streets, an entrance to the UC Santa Cruz campus. (Dan Coyro/Santa Cruz Sentinel)

Emails show UC Santa Cruz police used military surveillance to suppress grad student strike

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Group of women stretching in yoga class (Getty Images/Andrea Wyner)

The pandemic and the end of group fitness

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Woman wearing a protective mask is walking alone with a dog outdoors because of the corona virus pandemic covid-19 (Getty Images)

Cats and dogs are both susceptible to coronavirus — but cats have it worse

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The constellation Orion, with the star Betelgeuse glowing yellow (VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

After months of dimming, Betelgeuse is bright again. Here’s why

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Elon Musk | Tesla Factory (Salon/AP Photo/Susan Walsh/David Butow/Corbis/Getty Images)

Billionaire Elon Musk thinks money is more important than his workers’ lives

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Boy and his teddy bear both in protective medical masks sits on windowsill and looks out window (Getty Images)

New York warns of mysterious children’s disease linked to coronavirus

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Llamas posing ( Kathrin Ziegler/Getty Images)

Here’s why llamas are being enlisted to fight coronavirus

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Judy Mikovits, pictured in a 26-minute preview of the documentary "Plandemic." ("Plandemic" (Fair Use))

The “Plandemic” conspiracy video, explained

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Microscopic view of Coronavirus (Getty Images)

What is “Covid Toe?” Scientists are puzzled by COVID-19 related toe rashes

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A studio shot of two glass vials with medicine and a single syringe ready for an injection or vaccination (Getty Images)

The microscopic equivalent of a “shield” could stop COVID-19 before it starts

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A nurse looks at test tubes after taking a blood sample from a patient suffering from Covid 19, in the Covid-19 department at the Bari Polyclinic on May 05, 2020 in Bari, Italy. (Donato Fasano/Getty Images)

The coronavirus has mutated. Here’s what that means

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Japanese Giant Hornet – Vespa mandarinia (Getty Images/Alastair Macewen)

Here’s how experts plan to eradicate the “murder hornets,” a newfound invasive scourge

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Pensive man sitting on the floor looking out of window (Getty Images/Oliver Rossi)

Feeling lonely? USC’s “director of belonging” explains how to make friends and feel better

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American travel agency and restaurant website company TripAdvisor logo seen displayed on a smartphone with a computer model of the COVID-19 coronavirus on the background. (Photo Illustration by Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Signaling an end to a long boom, Silicon Valley copes with layoffs

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Virus spores leaking out of a bathroom (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

New study reveals the best conditions for spreading coronavirus

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This Is All I Got by Lauren Sandler (Photos provided by publicist/Random House)

Lauren Sandler: How Americans learned to blame the homeless for their own poverty

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