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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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The OpenAI ChatGPT logo is seen on a mobile phone (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Are artificial intelligence detectors biased against non-native English speakers?

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Members of the Drug Enforcement Administration raided two homes side-by-side, in an assumed illegal marijuana operation, on January 31, 2019 in Commerce City, Colorado. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Thanks for nothing, DEA. Fifty years later, drugs are deadlier and more abundant than ever

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A person looks out at the New York City skyline as it's covered with haze and smoke from Canada wildfires on June 7, 2023 in Weehawken, New Jersey. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

Canadian wildfires are choking Americans. Here’s why air quality got so bad and what can be done

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Immigrants seeking asylum, who were apprehended at the time Title 42 expired are processed, by U.S. Border Patrol agents, after crossing into Arizona from Mexico, on May 11, 2023 in Yuma, Arizona. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Does immigration really increase crime? Here’s what the science says

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Artist’s impression of an aurora and the surrounding radiation belt of the ultracool dwarf LSR J1835+3259. (Chuck Carter / Melodie Kao / Heising-Simons Foundation)

Astronomers spot an aurora and a powerful radiation belt in another star system

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Red eyed man holding tissue to his nose (Getty Images/heidijpix)

The new COVID variant has symptoms that are similar to allergies. Here’s how to tell the difference

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Man standing on the edge of syringe needle (Getty Images/Boris Zhitkov)

Drug experts are normalizing the idea that you can be “pre-addicted.” Is that really a thing?

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Closeup of the edge of open book pages (Getty Images/FactoryTh)

40 editors at a scientific journal just resigned in protest of their publisher’s “greed”

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Laccaria bicolor mushrooms (Getty Images/Radist)

Mushrooms can “talk” to each other — and they get extra chatty after a rain, study suggests

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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)

Voyager 1 and 2 are turning 46. Here’s where they rank among the oldest space probes

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Computer artwork of an ECG (electrocardiogram) trace in front of a human brain (Getty Images/PASIEKA)

These brain scans of dying patients may reveal what happens when you die

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Malik Jaffer, lead nurse, prepares a syringe with a Covid-19 vaccine, at the Peoples Congregational United Church of Christ, the site of the Ward 4 DC Covid Center, in Washington, D.C. on March 31, 2023. (Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Vaccine developers can’t keep up with COVID’s mutations

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Staghorn Jelly (Stu's Images)

The 10 weirdest mushrooms in North America

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This artist's concept shows the brilliant glare of two quasars residing in the cores of two galaxies that are in the chaotic process of merging. (NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI))

Astronomers just solved a 60-year mystery regarding the brightest objects in the universe

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The SpaceX Starship lifts off from the launchpad during a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on April 20, 2023. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Massive, exploded SpaceX rocket devastated a town and a wildlife reserve — and locals are furious

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Total Solar Eclipse (Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Everything you need to know about 2024’s total solar eclipse

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Planet Mars (Getty Images/SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

For the first time, scientists detect seismic waves rippling through Mars’ core

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Image of a worm that is genetically engineered so that certain neurons and muscles are fluorescent. (Stacy Levichev)

Scientists got tiny worms stoned — and found that they got the munchies just like us

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Colorado River Toad (Getty Images/Mirko_Rosenau)

A church claims to have created a drug that combines ‘shrooms and toad venom. Experts are skeptical

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Pot Brownies (Getty Images/Maren Caruso)

From weed brownies to buzzy honey, here is your ultimate beginner’s guide to cooking with cannabis

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A protester holds a placard against the people with money during the climate change demonstration march. (Ana Fernandez/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Two new scientific papers break down how the rich are destroying Earth

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Eyes of an octopus, a goat, a gecko, a goldfish, a jumping spider, a lion, a mantis shrimp, a macaw and a discus fish (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Mother Nature can’t stop evolving eyes

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Rear view of boy running in school corridor (Getty Images/Cavan Images)

Violence in schools dropped dramatically in California. Could it be a model for the country?

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Man taking off his surgical mask (Getty Images/Andres Barrionuevo Lopez)

The COVID virus has mutated so much since 2019 that some experts say it should be renamed SARS-CoV-3

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