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Troy Farah is Salon’s national affairs editor. Previously he served as the science and health editor. His reporting has appeared in Scientific American, STAT News, Undark, VICE and others. He co-hosts the drug policy and science podcast Narcotica. His website is troyfarah.com and can be found on Blue Sky.

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Empty Medical Incubator (Getty Images/Capuski)

Infant deaths spiked 13% in Texas following law restricting abortion, study finds

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Bird Flu Infected Animals: Cow, Chicken, Cat and Mouse (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Experts say bird flu is a Pandora’s box. Are we about to open it?

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Distant silhouette of a person standing on rocks below Northern Lights (Aurora borealis), Iceland (Getty Images/mariuskasteckas)

Apocalypse now, and always: On UFOs, AI and encounters with non-human intelligence

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Council of European Foreign Ministers with Hadja Lahbib (MR), Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs and Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny on February 19, 2024 in Brussels, Belgium, 19/02/2024 (Didier Lebrun / Photonews via Getty Images)

Yulia Navalnaya, wife of dead Putin opponent Alexei Navalny, vows to continue fight

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An artist's impression of the Voyager 1 space probe flying past Saturn in the outer solar system, circa 1980. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

NASA’s Voyager 1 probe could soon go silent forever

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Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver offers Clarence Thomas $1 million a year to resign from Supreme Court

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Cackling geese (Branta hutchinsii) flying (Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Millions of birds impacted by New Year’s Eve fireworks: study

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A Jar Of Dried Psilocybe Mushrooms (Getty Images/James MacDonald/Bloomberg)

Meet the “magic” mushroom shop salesman hoping to demolish Canada’s war on drugs

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Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin poses for a booking photo after his conviction April 21, 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Chauvin was found guilty on all three charges in the murder of George Floyd. (Minnesota Department of Corrections via Getty Images)

Derek Chauvin, ex-cop convicted of George Floyd’s killing stabbed in prison: report

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CHONGQING, CHINA - NOVEMBER 23, 2023 - Parents with children suffering from respiratory diseases line up at a children's hospital in Chongqing, China, November 23, 2023. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Spike in illnesses isn’t a new pathogen, China reassures WHO

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Israeli security forces stand next to buses waiting at the helipad of Tel Aviv's Schneider medical centre on November 24, 2023, amid preparations for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners later in the day. After 48 days of gunfire and bombardment that claimed thousands of lives, a four-day truce in the Israel-Hamas war began on November 24 with 50 hostages set to be released in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners. ((Photo by FADEL SENNA / AFP) (Photo by FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images))

13 Israelis among first hostages released as cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war kicks off

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Tobacco hornworm caterpillar with wasp pupae on back (Getty Images/Ed Reschke)

Parasites are the bedrock of life and evolution. It’s time to give them the respect they deserve

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Close up macro of small sand fly gnat on green leaf (Getty Images/EzumeImages)

Health officials say a flesh-eating parasite is now endemic in Texas. Here’s what that means

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A nurse prepares an injection of the Moderna dose vaccine on 26 September, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. (Alejandro Martinez Velez/Europa Press via Getty Images)

We’re closer than ever to flu-COVID combo vaccines

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US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Agents simulate a raid in their Tactical Training Facility, part of the new National Clandestine Laboratory Training and Research Facility December 5, 2008 at the DEA Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia. (TIM SLOAN/AFP via Getty Images)

The drug war is over. Its hawks just don’t realize they lost

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Headstones and American flags are seen at the Arlington National Cemetery, United States military cemetery in Virginia, United States on May 29, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Is America a death cult?

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A healthcare employee prepares a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Dennis Avenue Health Center in Silver Spring, Maryland on November 21, 2022. (Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Updated COVID vaccines will be available later this week, recommended for everyone six months and up

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Bruce Springsteen performs with The E Street Band at Autodromo Nazionale Monza on July 25, 2023 in Monza, Italy. (Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty Images)

Bruce Springsteen postpones eight shows due to peptic ulcer disease. Here’s what that means

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This Scanning Electron Micrograph Sem Depicts A Flagellated Vibrio Vulnificus Bacterium; Mag. 13184X. (BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images)

Flesh-eating bacteria is spreading across Florida and the US. Climate change is partially to blame

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Nurse disinfecting male arm before drawing blood (Getty Images/YakobchukOlena)

More gay and bisexual men can donate blood after American Red Cross updates guidelines

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Aerial View City in the US | Cancer Cell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Are humans a cancer on the planet? A physician argues that civilization is truly carcinogenic

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A photo of Henrietta Lacks, sits in the living room of her grandson, Ron Lacks, 57, in Baltimore, MD on March 22, 2017. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Family of Henrietta Lacks settles lawsuit over use of immortal cell line

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Illustration based on a transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of a SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (red) (Getty Images/JUAN GAERTNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

COVID-19 data shows early signs of an increase in cases

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Sad cat (Getty Images/LeoCH Studio)

More cats test positive for H5N1 “bird flu” in Poland, including a caracal

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