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Troy Farah is Salon’s national affairs editor, specializing in coverage of the planet and public health. 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. He has a strong interest in reality, consciousness, existence, nature, science and not being a jerk about it. His website is troyfarah.com and can be found on Blue Sky.

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Girl refusing cigarette (Getty Images/MiljaPhoto)

Today’s teens are less interested in sex, drugs and crime, study reveals

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A boat approaching a small island in the Aegean Sea. (Getty Images/George Pachantouris)

Our human ancestors learned to sail half a million years ago, study suggests

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The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, June 20, 451 AD, between a coalition led by the Roman general Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I against the Huns. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Climate change may have encouraged the Huns to invade Europe

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A female Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and her baby sitting on a tree in Gombe Stream National Park in Western Tanzania (Getty Images/guenterguni)

Climbing trees helped our ancestors evolve to walk on two legs rather than four, study suggests

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Earth with a dunce cap, and a UFO passing by (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Are we too primitive for aliens to bother with us? Some scientists think so

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Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) (Getty Images/Peter Etchells/EyeEm)

Dolphins are beaching themselves. The culprit could be Alzheimer’s disease

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