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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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White plastic bag caught up in branches and billowing in the breeze. Plastic bags are wind-distributed, which explains why they are widespread in the London (UK) countryside. (Getty Images/Whiteway)

A new material made of spider silk and wood could replace plastic

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The Dudleya Verityi succulent (Wiki Commons)

Instagram is helping drive a black market for succulent poaching

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Image of Asteroid 2000 QW7 captured by the Virtual Telescope Project (Gianluca Masi, Virtual Telescope Project & Asteroid Day Italy Coordinator)

An asteroid will pass so close to Earth on Saturday that home astronomers will be able to see it

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CEO of Kickstarter, Aziz Hasan (Kickstarter)

Kickstarter fires two union organizers, potentially breaking labor laws

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Uber Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi and Co-Founder and CEO of Lyft Logan Green (Noam Galai/ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)

Uber and Lyft launch anti-labor misinformation campaign in response to historic California bill

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In this May 26, 2010 file photo, staff members work on the production line at the Foxconn complex in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, southern China. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Media silent on report that iPhone 11 was made with illegal labor

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Siri Talking Graphic (Salon/ Ilana Lidagoster)

Apple programmed Siri to avoid the word “feminism”

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Pollen Allergy (Getty/BigPappa)

The climate crisis is about to make allergy season miserable

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Group Of Dogs With Owners At Obedience Class (Getty/Highwaystarz-Photography)

How selective breeding messes with dogs’ brains

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Walkway to the Man (The Burning Man Project/ Andrew Wyatt)

Deaths, sexual assault, and art controversy color this year’s Burning Man

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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors: Norman Yee, Vallie Brown, Gordon Mar, Rafael Mandelman, Aaron Peskin, Sandra Lee Fewer, Catherine Stefani, Hillary Ronen, Ahsha Safai, Shamann Walton, Matt Haney, and Angela Calvillo (The City and County of San Francisco)

San Francisco passes resolution deeming NRA a terrorist organization

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Satelite footage of Hurricane Dorian (NOAA/Getty/Sean Gallup)

Hurricane tracking technology is about to regress 30 years, thanks to 5G cell networks

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(Getty Images)

The first gene-edited lizard walks among us

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FILE - In this April 23, 2014, file photo, Daryl Cura demonstrates an e-cigarette at Vape Store in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File) (AP)

Experts say a lack of regulation led to mysterious vaping illness

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(Getty/Justin Sulivan)

Lyft, Uber to spend $60 million on propaganda to keep workers maximally exploited

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(Getty/DeoSum)

Scientists fear homophobes will weaponize genetic study of sexuality

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(Caltech)

A bizarre exoplanet is making astronomers rethink how solar systems form

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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, (D-NY) (Getty/Brendan Smialowski)

Kirsten Gillibrand drops out of Democratic presidential race after failing to make debate stage

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Books (Getty/Sandy Huffaker)

What reading 3.5 million books tells us about gender stereotypes

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Satellite image shows forest fires in the Krasnoyarsk region of Eastern Siberia, Russia (AP/Roscosmos Space Agency)

Massive Siberian forest fire could melt permafrost, freeing massive methane stores

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Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Joe Kennedy (Getty/Stringer/Lukas Schulze/Scott Eisen)

Rep. Joe Kennedy may challenge fellow Democrat Ed Markey for Senate seat: report

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Astronomers just saw a black hole eat a neutron star

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA); Former Vice President Joe Biden; Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (AP/Getty/Salon)

New poll finds Biden, Sanders, Warren in three-way tie: But is it an outlier?

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Ilulissat, Greenland (Getty/Sean Gallup)

Why the Trump administration is obsessed with buying Greenland

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