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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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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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Smoke enveloping a man's head (Getty Images/davit85)

Why does marijuana make it hard to remember stuff?

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A segment of Dakota fossil, mummified Edmontosaurus annectens (Kabacchi/Wikimedia Commons)

How to mummify a dinosaur

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Pollution and pregnancy risk to the unborn fetus as polluted smoke stacks and toxic waste as an environmental danger to a mother and baby (Getty Images/wildpixel)

For the first time, researchers find that air pollution is making its way into unborn babies

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This illustration depicts NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben)

Bullseye! NASA’s DART test was a smashing success, altering the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos

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Bumblebee pollinating a flowering cannabis plant (Getty Images/Aleksandr_Kravtsov)

Why bees love weed — and why it might even be good for them

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Big waves at the beach (Getty Images/PhotoNostalghia2020)

Ocean spray may have created conditions for life to form on Earth, new study suggests

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Sperm swimming (Getty Images/Burazin)

Male fetuses, bathed in forever chemicals, have lower sperm counts as adults: study

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Praise event in a local Church (Getty Images/middelveld)

Why some evangelical Christians trust their pastors more than their doctors on vaccines

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COVID-19 outbreak concept (Getty Images/MR.Cole_Photographer)

Rising cases of variants BQ.1 and XBB could make COVID drugs all but useless, study finds

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Different Types Of Coffee (Getty Images/Avtor)

Study suggests the heart benefits from coffee — but the preparation method matters

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Life reconstruction of Fanjingshania renovata (FU Boyuan and FU Baozhong)

How a Chinese fossil discovery rewrites the history of life on Earth

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Close up of a man smelling marijuana plant (Getty Images/MStudioImages)

Does cannabis really make people apathetic? New research suggests the “lazy stoner” myth isn’t true

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Aaron Rodgers #12 of the Green Bay Packers (Dylan Buell/Getty Images)

Aaron Rodgers fumbles the science on psychedelics. Drugs like ayahuasca can alter the brain—but how?

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This illustration depicts NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben)

“A magical moment”: NASA pulls a “Deep Impact” as its spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid

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Empty xylazine bottle found on the streets of Philadelphia (Christopher Moraff / Narcomedia)

An animal tranquilizer poisoning the heroin supply has drug policy experts worried

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Conceptual image of coronavirus inside a test tube (Getty Images/Erlon Silva - TRI Digital)

BF.7 could be the next dominant COVID variant. Here’s what that would mean

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A road guard removes weeds from the edge of a cycle path using a hot foam machine. (Thomas Frey/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Why hot foam could be the weed killer of the future

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