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"A Trip to the Moon." French movie by Georges Melies, 1902. Space rocket hits moon in the eye. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

Scientists elated by lunar junk impact

Matthew Rozsa

One scientist called the impact of human space debris "a fortuitous experiment"

Coronavirus and blood cells (Getty Images)

How blood type affects COVID severity

Matthew Rozsa

Along with age and pre-existing conditions, add blood type to the list of factors that affect illness severity

Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys, uses a megaphone while counter-protesting people gathered at the Torch of Friendship to commemorate the one year anniversary of the killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2021 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Proud Boys leader charged for Jan. 6

Jon Skolnik

Enrique Tarrio is the fifth Proud Boy to be charged for his alleged role in the Capitol riot

Scared young man in casual style with surgical medical mask (Getty Images/Khosrork)

"Mask-shaming" is becoming a thing again

Nicole Karlis

"Triggering": psychologists weigh in on what makes some Americans so angry about seeing others in face masks

Ron Johnson, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkoswki and Mitt Romney (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans are still fighting the ERA

Jon Skolnik

Three male senators are now attempting to squash the ERA once and for all, arguing that it has passed its deadline

Sylvia Plath seated in front of a bookshelf (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage

Jason Miller - The Conversation

Newly released private letters to her psychologist reveal the import behind Plath's tragedy

U.S. President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr speak in the Oval Office before signing an executive order related to regulating social media (Doug MIlls-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump wanted Ukraine to look into Biden

Sarah K Burris - Raw Story

In new book, Attorney General Bill Barr recalls what he overhead in Trump's call with the Ukrainian President

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis | A huge multi-colored flag flies over Ocean Drive as people participate in the Pride Parade, during the Miami Beach Pride Festival, in Lummus Park, South Beach, Florida on September 19, 2021. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP revives deadly "gays recruit" myth

Amanda Marcotte

Florida Republicans are accusing LGBTQ people of "grooming," "sexual instruction," and bribing kids to be gay

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

McConnell wants to end free school lunch

Jon Skolnik

The Kentucky Republican is reportedly "not budging" on a provision that ensures millions of kids don't go hungry

President Donald Trump walks on the south lawn of the White House on October 20, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump is headed to a rally in Pennsylvania, first lady Melania Trump was to join him, but does not feel well and is recovering from Covid-19, he last event was August's Republican National Convention speech at the White House. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

"Troubling": Why Trump's probe stalled

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams

A report by the "The New York Times" lays out what led two prosecutors involved in Trump investigation to step down

Ron DeSantis and Joseph Ladapo (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

FL first state to buck CDC on vaccines

Jon Skolnik

The announcement comes just days after the state's governor scolded high school kids for wearing masks

Ketanji Brown Jackson and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Anti-Jackson funders have ties to Jan. 6

Igor Derysh

Groups that backed Amy Coney Barrett and are attacking Ketanji Brown Jackson pumped money into Trump's Big Lie

A Palestinian woman pauses amid destroyed buildings in the northern district of Beit Hanun in the Gaza Strip during an humanitarian truce on July 26, 2014. | A Ukrainian police officer stands in front of a damaged residential block hit by an early morning missile strike on February 25, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

In war, there are no "worthy" victims

Chris Hedges

Russia's war crimes should not be used to whitewash America's record — that only worsens the cycle of atrocity

This is a schematic of WEC2P deployed in an arid region (Renyuan Li)

Solar system makes water out of thin air

Eric Schank

Combining irrigation, agriculture, and photovoltaics, a conceptual design pitches integrative solar energy

Election personnel check in provisional ballots at the Gwinnett County Board of Voter Registrations and Elections offices on November 7, 2020 in Lawrenceville, Georgia. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

Trump supporters hunt for voter fraud

Megan O’Matz - ProPublica

The Voter Reference Foundation is making unsupported claims suggesting election fraud

Tennessee State Capitol Building (David Underwood/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Republican resigns on wire fraud charges

Travis Gettys - Raw Story

State Rep. Robin Smith was charged with service wire fraud on Monday and shortly after announced resignation

Disney CEO Bob Chapek (Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Disney CEO won't condemn anti-LGBTQ bill

Joy Saha

"I do not want anyone to mistake a lack of a statement for a lack of support," Chapek says in an internal memo

Actress Angelina Jolie (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Jolie visits Yemen amid Ukraine crisis

Joy Saha

"We cannot be selective about who deserves support and whose rights we defend," Jolie says

Bill Cosby arrives at the Montgomery County Courthouse on the first day of sentencing in his sexual assault trial on September 24, 2018 in Norristown, Pennsylvania. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)

Cosby is free, SCOTUS won't revisit case

Joy Saha

The actor and comedian was once known as "America's Dad" before his stint behind bars

Actress Pamela Adlon attends the 5th and final season celebration of FX's "Better Things" at Hollywood Forever on February 23, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (JC Olivera/Getty Images)

Pamela Adlon on ending "Better Things"

Melanie McFarland

On "Salon Talks" the star, writer and director discusses the legacy of her FX hit, which is now in its last season

Elizabeth Holmes in "The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley" (Courtesy of HBO)

Obsessing over Elizabeth Holmes' voice

Kathryn Cunningham - The Conversation

Holmes’ supposed attempt to alter her voice is part of a broader cultural fixation on the way women speak and sound

Mark Meadows listens as US President Donald Trump holds a Make America Great Again rally as he campaigns in Gastonia, North Carolina, October 21, 2020. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Did Mark Meadows commit voter fraud?

Igor Derysh

Meadows claimed to live in a “dive trailer” in North Carolina where he doesn’t appear to have spent a single night

Brain scans (Getty Images/Andrew Brookes)

Covid can shrink your brain, study says

Nicole Karlis

A study of brain scans of people before and after an infection found significant brain changes

Donald Trump | A group of truck convoy headed to Washington D.C. to from Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States on February 23, 2022 to protest vaccination mandates and in solidarity for Canada. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

It's a grift: Truckers too scared for DC

Amanda Marcotte

Truckers' failure to breach D.C. and Trump's fake Twitter exposes the sad emptiness of the modern right

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