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Alyssa Clough
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Is it safe to eat snow?
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Earthquakes can cause serious psychological aftershocks
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Tammy Danan
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Is it possible to boost your immune system?
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Nicholas Lund
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Nuking hurricanes out of the sky ‘doesn’t make sense at all’
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Lila Reynolds
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