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Workers wait to get off an elevator at a coal mine in eastern Ukraine. Russia's invasion of Ukraine disrupted global supplies of fossil fuels and led to more reliance on coal for electricity in some countries. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Enjot, 45, who lost his house and some of his relatives, walks on Tuesday past the rubble of a building collapsed in Monday's earthquake in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia. Tatan Syuflana/AP hide caption
This illustration shows how the gas giant planet WASP-39 b might look as it orbits its host star. NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) hide caption
Cultivated Meat is an alternative to traditional meat derived from cells in a lab. In this photo, a chicken breast is prepared at Upside Foods. Brian L. Frank for NPR/Brian L. Frank for NPR hide caption
A cell biologist shares the wonder of researching life's most fundamental form
This screengrab from NASA TV shows NASA's Orion capsule, left, nearing the moon, right, on Monday. At center is Earth. NASA via AP hide caption
Eric Minikel and Sonia Vallabh pivoted from careers in law and urban planning to lead a prion research lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Maria Nemchuk/Broad Institute hide caption
Bonny Omara (left) works with Edgar Mujuni at Japan's Kyushu Institute of Technology on the satellite that will be used to observe land conditions in Uganda. Bonny Omara hide caption
Antonio Rapuano got an infusion of a monoclonal antibody to treat his COVID in Albano, Italy in 2021. Such infusions have been effective treatments for COVID during the pandemic, but doctors are now finding that most monoclonal antibodies no longer work against new variants of SARS-CoV-2. Yara Nardi/Reuters hide caption
Computer monitors show financial data. More data being created and stored necessitates the use of new unit measurements. Chris Hondros/Getty Images hide caption
This illustration shows the James Webb Space Telescope as it might appear as it orbits the sun, about a million miles away from Earth. NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez hide caption
Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikel at their wedding in 2009. Zamana Photography/Courtesy of Eric Minikel hide caption
The small red dot highlighted inside the white box on this James Webb Space Telescope image is an early galaxy, seen as it looked just 350 million years after the Big Bang. STScI/NASA hide caption
Human prion protein, molecular model. Laguna Design/Getty Images/Science Photo Libra hide caption
The black flying fox is one of the bats in Australia that carries the Hendra virus — which sometimes spills over to horses, and humans, with devastating impact. Scientists are trying to figure out what triggers spillovers — and how to stop them. Pat Jones hide caption
An elegant way to stop deadly Hendra virus spillovers from bats to horses ... to us
If you dance more when the bass hits, it could be because of your vestibular system. Flashpop/Getty Images hide caption
NASA's new moon rocket lifts off from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. This launch is the first flight test of the Artemis program. John Raoux/AP hide caption
Visitors walk in the Green Zone of the UNFCCC COP27 climate conference on Nov. 10 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. The conference is bringing together political leaders and representatives from 190 countries to discuss climate-related topics including climate change adaptation, climate finance, decarbonisation, agriculture and biodiversity. The conference is running from November 6-18. Sean Gallup/Getty Images hide caption
U.S. map shows most states score poorly on a grading system for pre-term births. Kaitlyn Radde/NPR hide caption