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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]

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

Why does marijuana make it hard to remember stuff?

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

How to mummify a dinosaur

Troy Farah
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

Troy Farah
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

Troy Farah
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

Troy Farah
Different Types Of Coffee (Getty Images/Avtor)

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

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

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

Troy Farah
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

Troy Farah
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?

Troy Farah
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

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

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

Troy Farah
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

Troy Farah
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

Troy Farah
Water on a blue background (Getty Images/Jose A. Bernat Bacete)

Scientists using dye to study female squirting say that it is mostly — but not entirely — urine

Troy Farah
MRSA super bug colonies on blood agar plate. (Getty Images/Rodolfo Parulan Jr)

A drug that can kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria could stave off the coming superbug crisis

Troy Farah
Gavin Newsom speaks at a Homekey site to announce the latest round of awards for homeless housing projects across the state on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Why housing advocates oppose a new California law designed to help the homeless

Troy Farah
AFM disease or acute flaccid myelitis medical concept as a neurologic condition representing enterovirus or polio virus, 3D illustration (Getty Images/wildpixel)

A virus that causes polio-like symptoms is spreading among children, CDC warns

Troy Farah
Exoplanet with moons, illustration (Getty Images/PHOTOSTOCK-ISRAEL/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

A newly-discovered planet that is half-water, half-rock is straight out of science fiction

Troy Farah
U.S. Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray explains a video of unidentified aerial phenomena, as he testifies before a House Intelligence Committee subcommittee hearing at the U.S. Capitol on May 17, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Releasing UFO footage would damage national security, Navy claims

Troy Farah
Aerial view Combine Harvester working on the Paddy Field in Autumn (Getty Images/Insung Jeon)

Did humans domesticate plants, or did they domesticate us?

Troy Farah
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