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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]

Cow | Hemp pattern (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Cows that fed on hemp produced psychoactive milk — but it wasn’t potent enough to get anyone high

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Planet Earth, sun and stars (Getty images/NASA/egal)

Is Earth a self-regulating organism? New study suggests our planet has a built-in climate control

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NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA’s Artemis mission is headed to the Moon. Now what?

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World map composed of people (Getty Images/imaginima)

The population has reached 8 billion — but experts aren’t worried about overpopulation. Here’s why

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COVID-19 virus destruction (Getty Images/Yuichiro Chino)

Experts predict “recombinant” COVID strains that blend the worst aspects of multiple variants

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close-up of a measuring tape, the concept of losing weight (Getty Images/puhimec)

Diabetes drug semaglutide is surging in popularity. Is it safe?

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Capsule pills and marijuana in a blister-pack (Getty Images / Ilya Sereda / EyeEm)

Can cannabis help us win the war against antibiotic resistance?

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Small cannabis leaf on USA flag (Getty Images/Olena Ruban)

Five states just voted on legalizing recreational marijuana. These are the results

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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)

Pandemic greed killed more than 1 million people globally, study says

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San Pedro Cactus (Wikimedia Commons/Ajor933)

Archaeologists find a trove of ancient human sacrifices fed psychedelic plants before death

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A small bag of straight Fentanyl on display at the State Crime Lab at the Ohio Attorney General's headquarters of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. (Ty Wright for/ For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

An epidemic of fentanyl misinformation: How politicians fail to understand the synthetic opioid

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Baby was sick as Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in kid hospital (Getty Images/graphixchon)

Triple threat: Flu and RSV cases could worsen COVID winter wave

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Conceptual illustration of inflammation of the brain caused by a virus (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Like a “fire in the brain”: COVID can cause brain inflammation that mimics Parkinson’s symptoms

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Shorthair cat lying on front in bed looking bored (Getty Images/Kilito Chan)

How a zombifying cat parasite called Toxoplasma gondii conquered the globe

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Sick Woman Lying In Bed With Tissues (Getty Images/Obradovic)

As the virus mutates, the most common COVID symptoms appear to be changing, too

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Zombie hand emerging from the ground (Getty Images/Marc Mateos)

Zombies abound in nature: Viruses and parasites can cause real-world zombification

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An XMM-Newton Mosaic of the Galactic Supernova Remnant HESS J1731-347 (Image courtesy of Victor Doroshenko, Gerd Pühlhofer and ESA / XMM-Newton, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)

A bizarre star is either the lightest neutron star ever found, or something even weirder

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Honey bees in a swarm (Getty Images/Andreas Häuslbetz)

Insect swarms create so much electricity that they may influence the weather, study finds

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Cannabis and liver (Getty Images/Shidlovski)

Cannabis users are often denied liver transplants. Scientists looked into whether that had any merit

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Conceptual paper illustration of coronavirus in a lab (Getty Images/Eugene Mymrin)

“Variant soup”: Why this winter’s COVID wave may be different than any previous pandemic phase

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Marijuana buds (Getty Images/Yuri Kriventsoff)

It’s not a myth: Marijuana really is more potent than it used to be

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Red fox cub with parent (Vulpes vulpes) (Getty Images/James Warwick)

Systemic racism blunts the genetic diversity of urban wildlife

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Coronavirus and the Brain (Getty Images/Amornrat Phuchom)

Is it time to add schizophrenia to the list of unusual “long COVID” symptoms?

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Rapper Kanye West speaks during his meeting with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 11, 2018. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Kanye West, regurgitating a false drug war trope, blames George Floyd’s death on fentanyl

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