June 23 - 30, 2023

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GLOBAL EDITOR IN CHIEF _ Nancy Cooper DEPUTY EDITOR _ Diane Harris VICE PRESIDENT, BRAND CREATIVE _ Michael Goesele VICE PRESIDENT, DIGITAL _ Laura Davis MANAGING EDITOR _ Melissa Jewsbury OPINION EDITOR _ Josh Hammer SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR _ Fred G
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Burst Hopes
Ukrainian security forces evacuate local residents by boat on June 7 after the destruction of the Russian-controlled Kakhovka dam. Ukrainian officials accuse Russia of destroying the dam, while Russian officials are putting the blame on Ukraine. The
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Apocalypse Now?
New York City topped the list of most polluted major cities in the world on June 7, as smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed the East Coast, creating a thick orange haze and hazardous air quality conditions. Due to visibility issues, the Federal Av
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Stepping Up
Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, pictured with wife Karen Pence, is interviewed after his 2024 presidential campaign launch event at Des Moines Area Community College on June 7. Pence framed the Republican nomination as a choice between “reckle
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Beeswax Bust
Bees cover a 3D-printed model of an ancient bronze statue depicting Roman emperor Hadrian on June 7. The work was a collaborative effort for the Israel Museum by artist and designer Tomas Libertiny, beekeeper Rafi Nur and curator Dudi Mevorach. The m
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The Archives
“Our current way of living is selfish and unsustainable. We are gobbling up the last resources. We are cutting down the rainforest. We are polluting the water. We are polluting the air. We are killing plants and animals, destroying the ozone layer, b
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Medical Marvels
MEDICINE MAY BE ROOTED IN SCIENCE, but it has never been wholly driven by it. The human body and mind are so complex that progress in medicine depends more and more on technology finding better ways of peering into the unknown. Leonardo da Vinci’s cl
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South Korea’s Youthful Recluses
SOUTH KOREA IS TAKING AN EXPERIMENTAL approach to a tough-to-define problem by offering the country’s solitary young citizens a regular living allowance in the hope it will encourage their reintegration into society. So-called “reclusive youths,” who
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How a Crowded GOP Field Helps Trump
MORE HIGH-PROFILE REPUBLI-cans joining the 2024 presidential primary are a boon to former President Donald Trump’s chances to win the GOP nomination. Former New Jersey governor and one-time Trump ally Chris Christie announced his candidacy on June 6,
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Fighting Bias In Lung Cancer And Medicine
Narjust FlorezTHORACIC ONCOLOGIST, DANA-FARBER BRIGHAM CANCER CENTER; FOUNDER, FLOREZ LAB ONE PATIENT CHANGED THE COURSE of thoracic oncologist Narjust Florez’s career: a 43-year-old nonsmoker, an active runner, wife and mother who she’d just diagnos
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Making Medicine More Affordable For All
Alex Oshmyansky & Mark CubanCO-FOUNDERS, MARK CUBAN COST PLUS DRUG CO. MORE THAN ONE-THIRD OF AMERICANS, including nearly half of those with annual incomes below $50,000, have skipped taking prescribed drugs because of high prices—something former ra
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Rediscovering Ancient Psychedelic Drugs
Jeeshan ChowdhuryFOUNDER and CEO, JOURNEY COLAB IF YOU ARE SUFFERING—IF YOU live with depression, anxiety, addiction or other mental health issues—there really is hope. Psychiatry has many effective tools, from medication and talk therapy to a range
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Pioneering Virtual Health Care For Women
Kate RyderFOUNDER and CEO, MAVEN “TRADITIONAL HEALTH CARE WASN’T BUILT WITH WOM-en and families in mind,” says Kate Ryder. When Ryder founded Maven, now the world’s largest virtual clinic for women’s and family health, more than half of U.S. counties
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Contraceptive Drugs That Don’t Mess With Hormones
Polina LishkoPROFESSOR OF CELL BIOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, ST. LOUIS CONTRACEPTIVES HAVEN’T ADVANCED ALL THAT much since the 1950s, when women began taking “the pill”—usually a combination of estrogen and progestin—to stop ovulatio
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“Without Our Health, We Have Nothing.”
Mary Lou JepsenFOUNDER, OPENWATER MARY LOU JEPSEN SEEMS TO HAVE lived many lives. In her twenties, she created the first hologram video system, played in a band, hung out with Lou Reed and Andy Warhol and began a doctoral degree at Brown University.
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Low-cost Solutions To Global Health Problems
Saad BhamlaASSISTANT PROFESSOR, BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING, GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HIGH-TECH SOLUTIONS TO THE WORLD’S BIGGEST health challenges typically share one critical impediment to mass adoption: cost. Medical innovation is expensive, wh
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A Voice For The Voiceless
Eddie ChangNEUROSURGEON, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO IN HIS LATER YEARS, THE PHYSICIST STEPHEN HAWK-ing, partially paralyzed by ALS, was unable to speak and could communicate only by typing out sentences letter by letter, using facial move
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Taking The Measure Of Female Orgasms
Anna LeeCO-FOUNDER/HEAD of ENGINEERING, LIONESS GROWING UP IN A CONSERVATIVE, RELIGIOUS KOREAN family who moved from Seoul to Los Angeles, Anna Lee never talked about sex. “I was afraid and ashamed of my body well into my mid-twenties, always wonderi
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Best Doctors & Plastic Surgeons 2023
EACH YEAR MILLIONS OF Americans take important steps to better their health by making appointments with dermatologists, eye doctors and plastic surgeons. Searching for a new provider can feel daunting, whether for preventative medicine, managing chro
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Extraterrestrial Destinations Right Here on Earth
Part of the larger Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area UNESCO World Heritage Site, the park features quartz-sandstone pillar-like rock formations that disappear thousands of feet below into thick foliage. One of the pillars was renamed Avata
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan
ONE OF THE MOST COMPELLING VILLAINS TO COME OUT OF THE WALKING Dead was Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan, and now he’s back in The Walking Dead: Dead City (June 18 on AMC). “Since we’ve last seen him, he’s not doing great.” The story picks up two years af

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