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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.”

A woman wearing a protective facemask checks her mobile phone outside a shopping mall in Bangkok on February 4, 2020. - Thailand so far has detected 19 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus believed to have originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, which is under lockdown. (MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Quarantine and chill? The internet is giving quarantined people a social outlet

Nicole Karlis
Projected design for new student housing at University of California, Santa Cruz / Strike picket signs (UC Santa Cruz/AP Photo/Salon)

Santa Cruz graduate students striking for a living wage are met with threats and batons

Nicole Karlis
In this undated photo released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a dispersing wolf from the Oregon Pack OR-54, a descendent of the famous OR-7, the first wild wolf in California in nearly a century. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife says the 3- to 4-year-old female dubbed OR-54 was found on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, in Shasta County, Calif. It's not clear yet whether she died by accident, naturally or was deliberately and illegally killed. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/AP Photo)

Endangered wolf’s 8,700-mile journey for love ends in heartbreak

Nicole Karlis
Hale-Bopp Comet behind the Very Large Array (VLA) Radio Telescope near Socorro, New Mexico. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Scientists pinpoint mysterious repeating radio signal from outside our galaxy

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Charcoal Toothpaste (Getty Images)

Why the charcoal toothpaste trend needs to die

Nicole Karlis
Tired bartender (Getty Images)

Trump says the economy is great. Millennials disagree

Nicole Karlis
Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko (ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team/Salon)

Comet chameleon? Here’s why this nearby comet keeps changing colors

Nicole Karlis
A large fracking operation becomes a new part of the horizon with Mount Meeker and Longs Peak looming in the background. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Rust Belt residents aren’t as enthusiastic about fracking as the media depicts

Nicole Karlis
Shadow, Inc. / Caucus goers check in at a caucus at Roosevelt Hight School, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik/Shadow, Inc.)

Meet the people behind Shadow Inc., the tech company that botched the Iowa caucus

Nicole Karlis
Gray seal (Halichoerus grypus) (Horst Jegen/McPhoto/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Gray seals clap back (and forth): surprising footage reveals gray seals talking through claps

Nicole Karlis
Man shutting off alarm clocks (Getty Images)

Annoying alarm sounds really do make you more grumpy, study finds

Nicole Karlis
The IceCube Laboratory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, in Antarctica, hosts the computers collecting raw data. Due to satellite bandwidth allocations, the first level of reconstruction and event filtering happens in near real time in this lab. Only events selected as interesting for physics studies are sent to UW–Madison, where they are prepared for used by any member of the IceCube Collaboration. (Felipe Pedreros/IceCube/NSF)

Bizarre neutrinos detected in Antarctica could open the door to new physics discoveries

Nicole Karlis
Platypus (Getty Images)

Why the platypus is at risk of extinction

Nicole Karlis
The Guardian / Coal-fired power plant (Getty Images/Salon)

The Guardian will no longer run ads from oil and gas companies

Nicole Karlis
The Infrared Astronomical Satellite, or IRAS, was the first mission to put a telescope in space to survey the sky in infrared. (NASA)

Two satellites just had a close call — but experts say it’s just a matter of time before a collision

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(NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images)

American cities prepare for the worst as Wuhan coronavirus spreads

Nicole Karlis
Healthcare costs and fees (Getty Images/Prapass Pulsub)

Among poorest 20 percent of Americans, one-third of income goes to health care: study

Nicole Karlis
UC Santa Cruz sign (University of California Santa Cruz website / economics.ucsc.edu)

“Do I do research or pay rent?” Grad students in Santa Cruz start a wildcat strike

Nicole Karlis
David Talbot (Chronicle Prism/Getty Images/Salon)

David Talbot on how journalism has changed: “I wouldn’t have been able to start Salon today”

Nicole Karlis, Keith A. Spencer
Lyft Uber car / Police look over the scene of a shooting at 3rd Avenue and Pine Streeton January 22, 2020 in the central business district of Seattle, Washington. (Getty Images/Salon)

Uber and Lyft price-gouge customers trying to flee Seattle shooting

Nicole Karlis
Tourists wear face masks as they prepare to board their tour bus outside the New Orient Landmark hotel in Macau on January 22, 2020, after the former Portuguese colony reported its first case of the new SARS-like virus that originated from Wuhan in China. (ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

The mystery of the Wuhan coronavirus deepens as first case hits U.S.

Nicole Karlis
A walking Epaulette Shark (Hemiscyllium freycineti) crawls across the seafloor in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. While this shark isn't the newly discovered species, it is one of the nine separate but closely related species of shark that can all walk. (Getty Images/Ethan Daniels/Stocktrek Images)

Some sharks have learned to walk — but don’t panic just yet

Nicole Karlis
The Door Dash driver leaves Baskin Robbins, over in hand and heads to their delivery. (Getty Images/The Washington Post)

DoorDash drivers make an average of $1.45 an hour, analysis finds

Nicole Karlis
Between Heaven And Hell by David Talblot (Chronicle Prism)

“I felt my boundaries. I had shrunk.” David Talbot on post-stroke existentialism

Nicole Karlis
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