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Karen Gillan duels her clone in "Dual"

Stop hitting yourself! Riley Stearns spoke to Salon about the dystopia where you're literally your own worst enemy

Salon · Apr 15, 2022

Maybe you don't need more sleep

Author Sara C. Mednick explains what "downstate" is, and how it's different from sleep

Salon · Apr 15, 2022

So much for "moderate" Republicans

Abbott's disastrous border stunt harmed his own supporters — because ruthless GOP politics is focused on one man

Salon · Apr 15, 2022

Trump, Putin and their kind: Going down

Old-guard autocrats like Trump, Putin and Erdogan can't control information — in the end, that will destroy them

Salon · Apr 14, 2022

The GOP, the Rothschilds and the weather

A GOP attempt to troll Biden reveals too much: From 200 years of antisemitic paranoia to MTG's space lasers

Salon · Apr 14, 2022

The most massive comet ever found

Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein's nucleus is about 80 miles in diameter — larger than Rhode Island

Salon · Apr 13, 2022

Zika virus is quick to mutate

Scientists watched how Zika evolved as it passed through different hosts — and left feeling concerned

Salon · Apr 13, 2022

Are mushrooms talking to each other?

A British scientist recorded different mushrooms' electrical impulses — and found them shockingly complex

Salon · Apr 13, 2022

What we know about COVID-19 variant XE

XE may be more contagious than BA.2 — but its spike protein isn't different. Here's why that's a good thing

Salon · Apr 13, 2022

Kimmel compares Carlson to "prostitutes"

"This is like selling Girl Scout cookies outside a diabetes clinic"

Salon · Apr 13, 2022