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Troy Farah is a science and public health journalist whose reporting has appeared in Scientific American, STAT News, Undark, Ars Technica, VICE, Discover Magazine, and others. He co-hosts the drug policy and science podcast Narcotica. His website is troyfarah.com and can be found on Blue Sky at @voidvaporvortex.bsky.social [photo: John Haas]

Cute scene with sleeping small girl and two dachshunds (Getty Images/maodesign)

How to improve your naps, according to experts

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Artist’s impression of Balaenognathus maeuseri (Artwork by Megan Jacobs)

A jurassic mix between flamingo and whale: Never-before-seen pterosaur with over 400 teeth unearthed

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Multiverse, concept (Getty Images/VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Déjà Vuniverse: Why some physicists believe we could be living in a Groundhog Day universe

Troy Farah
Marijuana Gummy Bear Candies (Getty Images/Juanmonino)

Why some cannabis advocates say we should stop infusing weed into candy

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A young woman lying in bed and wearing a sleep mask (Getty Images/Charday Penn)

Six simple ways to improve your “sleep hygiene,” according to experts

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Marijuana leaves entwined with measuring tape (Getty Images/Shidlovski)

Why does cannabis keep some people skinny? Experts explain how weed and metabolism are connected

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Vegetables on round chopping board (Getty Images/Westend61)

Beyond a diet fad: Fasting alters your genetic expression, experts say

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A deer stag, dog, rat and mink looking at COVID-19 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Ping pong zoonosis”: COVID is spreading from humans to animals and back again

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Woman holds up bottle of medicine for advertisement photoshoot, 1920-60. (Science & Society Picture Library/SSPL/Getty Images)

Drugs with bigger TV advertising budgets are typically of “low therapeutic value,” study says

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The Last of Us (Liane Hentscher/HBO)

“The Last of Us” is an almost-perfect metaphor for climate change, but it gets one thing wrong

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Close-up of carving on wood, Patrai, Greece (De Agostini via Getty Images)

Drinking culture: Why some thinkers believe human civilization owes its existence to alcohol

Troy Farah
Woman Smoking Weed (Getty Images / Mayara Klingner / EyeEm)

Meet the “California sober” set: Why trendsetters are ditching all drugs except pot

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This artist’s conception shows a late-stage galaxy merger and its two newly-discovered central black holes. (ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) / M. Weiss, NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Two huge black holes are on the verge of colliding. When they do, the explosion will be incalculable

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Man rejects a drink at the pub (Getty Images/cagkansayin)

What happens to your body after you quit drinking, according to experts

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Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was discovered by astronomers using the wide-field survey camera at the Zwicky Transient Facility this year in early March. (NASA/Dan Bartlett)

After 50,000 years, a comet is returning to the inner solar system. Here’s how to see it

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Artist’s concept of a fallback disk around pulsar 4U 0142+61. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC))

A weird, dead magnetized star has a solid surface, surprising astronomers

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Condoms in red wrappers (Getty Images / Alberto Tudor / 500px)

Meet MGen, a new STI going around that no one is talking about

Troy Farah
Fly on a big flower (Getty Images / Enrique Díaz / 7cero)

Flies are taking over thanks to climate change — while moths and other pollinators disappear

Troy Farah
Life reconstruction of the 120-million-year-old bird Cratonavis zhui (Zhao Chuang/Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Missing link? A newly-discovered fossil looks like the halfway point between birds and dinosaurs

Troy Farah
Coronavirus mutations, concept (Getty images/VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Why the new COVID variant XBB.1.5 is taking over the U.S. so quickly

Troy Farah
Diabetic girl injecting insulin in her stomach (Getty Images/dmphoto)

Childhood diabetes is expected to rise by more than 60% in less than 40 years: Study

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Pedro Pascal in "The Last of Us" (Liane Hentscher/HBO)

“The Last of Us” could change how Hollywood does video games, but hateful gamers make it difficult

Troy Farah
Enteroviruses, a group of RNA-viruses of the Picornaviridae family including Echo-viruses, Coxsackie-viruses, Rhino-viruses, Polio-virus and other (Getty Images/Dr_Microbe)

For the first time, scientists discover organisms whose diets rely on eating viruses

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Magic Mushroom (Getty Images/VICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Why 2023 will be a banner year for drug research

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