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Nicole Karlis is an award-winning staff writer at Salon, specializing in health and science. She is also the author of the book “Your Brain on Altruism: The Power of Connection and Community During Times of Crisis.”

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Charcoal Toothpaste (Getty Images)

Why the charcoal toothpaste trend needs to die

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Tired bartender (Getty Images)

Trump says the economy is great. Millennials disagree

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Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko (ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team/Salon)

Comet chameleon? Here’s why this nearby comet keeps changing colors

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A large fracking operation becomes a new part of the horizon with Mount Meeker and Longs Peak looming in the background. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Rust Belt residents aren’t as enthusiastic about fracking as the media depicts

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Shadow, Inc. / Caucus goers check in at a caucus at Roosevelt Hight School, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik/Shadow, Inc.)

Meet the people behind Shadow Inc., the tech company that botched the Iowa caucus

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Gray seal (Halichoerus grypus) (Horst Jegen/McPhoto/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Gray seals clap back (and forth): surprising footage reveals gray seals talking through claps

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Man shutting off alarm clocks (Getty Images)

Annoying alarm sounds really do make you more grumpy, study finds

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The IceCube Laboratory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, in Antarctica, hosts the computers collecting raw data. Due to satellite bandwidth allocations, the first level of reconstruction and event filtering happens in near real time in this lab. Only events selected as interesting for physics studies are sent to UW–Madison, where they are prepared for used by any member of the IceCube Collaboration. (Felipe Pedreros/IceCube/NSF)

Bizarre neutrinos detected in Antarctica could open the door to new physics discoveries

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Platypus (Getty Images)

Why the platypus is at risk of extinction

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The Guardian / Coal-fired power plant (Getty Images/Salon)

The Guardian will no longer run ads from oil and gas companies

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The Infrared Astronomical Satellite, or IRAS, was the first mission to put a telescope in space to survey the sky in infrared. (NASA)

Two satellites just had a close call — but experts say it’s just a matter of time before a collision

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(NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images)

American cities prepare for the worst as Wuhan coronavirus spreads

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Healthcare costs and fees (Getty Images/Prapass Pulsub)

Among poorest 20 percent of Americans, one-third of income goes to health care: study

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UC Santa Cruz sign (University of California Santa Cruz website / economics.ucsc.edu)

“Do I do research or pay rent?” Grad students in Santa Cruz start a wildcat strike

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David Talbot (Chronicle Prism/Getty Images/Salon)

David Talbot on how journalism has changed: “I wouldn’t have been able to start Salon today”

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Lyft Uber car / Police look over the scene of a shooting at 3rd Avenue and Pine Streeton January 22, 2020 in the central business district of Seattle, Washington. (Getty Images/Salon)

Uber and Lyft price-gouge customers trying to flee Seattle shooting

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Tourists wear face masks as they prepare to board their tour bus outside the New Orient Landmark hotel in Macau on January 22, 2020, after the former Portuguese colony reported its first case of the new SARS-like virus that originated from Wuhan in China. (ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

The mystery of the Wuhan coronavirus deepens as first case hits U.S.

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A walking Epaulette Shark (Hemiscyllium freycineti) crawls across the seafloor in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. While this shark isn't the newly discovered species, it is one of the nine separate but closely related species of shark that can all walk. (Getty Images/Ethan Daniels/Stocktrek Images)

Some sharks have learned to walk — but don’t panic just yet

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The Door Dash driver leaves Baskin Robbins, over in hand and heads to their delivery. (Getty Images/The Washington Post)

DoorDash drivers make an average of $1.45 an hour, analysis finds

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Between Heaven And Hell by David Talblot (Chronicle Prism)

“I felt my boundaries. I had shrunk.” David Talbot on post-stroke existentialism

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Planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, a Red Dwarf Star. ( Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Scientists have found a “super-Earth” right next door

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Male nurse doing routine checkup of senior patient in hospital room (Getty Images/Ridofranz)

The health gap: The rich enjoy ten more years of good health compared to poor

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A pantry is filled with gluten-free food products (Washington Post/Getty Images)

Scientists are a step closer to solving the mystery of celiac disease

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The "Zeitfeld" (Time Field) clock installation by Klaus Rinke is seen at the entrance of the Suedpark, in Dusseldorf Germany. (Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

Here’s why the west coast could shift time zones in 2020

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