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Science & Health (page 102)

Salon covers science and health news through investigations, insightful reporting, commentary and analysis.

Tumbleweed rolls across a dried out landscape in central California's Kern County as trucks head south toward the Grapevine to begin the climb over the Tejon Pass leading into Southern California, on February 3, 2014. The United States government announced on February 5 a new system of regional hubs to tackle the effects of climate change as the country's southwest battles a historic drought. In January, California declared a state of emergency due to what could be the worst drought in a century for the state, and which has prompted fears of lost harvests and devastating forest fires. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Is California's drought over?

Jake Bittle - Grist
People sing slogans while gathering on a street in Shanghai on November 27, 2022, where protests against China's zero-Covid policy took place the night before following a deadly fire in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region. (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

China and COVID-19: A lesson in extremes

Matthew Rozsa
Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills (Bryan Bennett/Getty Images)

What happened to Damar Hamlin?

Matthew Rozsa
Coronavirus mutations, concept (Getty images/VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

How variant XBB.1.5 took over the U.S.

Troy Farah
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(Getty/FrankMirbach)

When fishing boats go "dark"

Heather Welch - The Conversation
Wind turbine reflected in solar panels (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

War accelerating clean energy adoption

Rachel Kyte - The Conversation
A man shovels snow in near whiteout conditions during a noreaster in Marshfield, Massachusetts, on January 29, 2022. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

How Earth’s tilt affects January

Deanna Hence - The Conversation
Female medical professional in Personal Protective Equipment (Getty Images)

Weighing risks of a major surgery

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
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Medical Bill (Getty Images/everydayplus)

New tools to predict health care costs

Julie Appleby - KFF Health News
Diabetic girl injecting insulin in her stomach (Getty Images/dmphoto)

Youth diabetes predicted to rise sharply

Matthew Rozsa, Troy Farah
(Getty/Salon)

How toilets spew invisible aerosols

John Crimaldi - The Conversation
Futuristic Nuclear Fusion Particles Simulation concept (iStock/Getty Images)

Fusion ignition explained

Carolyn Kuranz - The Conversation
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek | Sperm under a microscope (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The regretful discoverer of sperm

Matthew Rozsa
Artificial Intelligence Chatbot concept (Getty Images/Carol Yepes)

Meet the AI that thinks it can write

Gary N. Smith
(Getty/MilosBataveljic)

Why chickenpox can increase stroke risk

Andrew Bubak - The Conversation
United States Senator and nominee for president, Barry Goldwater (1909 - 1998) speaking at an election rally in Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA, 28th October 1964. (William Lovelace/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Is the Goldwater Rule outdated?

Matthew Rozsa
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Girl drawing smiley face on to a wall (Getty Images/Flashpop)

The case for small resolutions

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(NASA)

A gamma-ray burst challenges physics

Eleonora Troja, Simone Dichiara - The Conversation
Bacteria Lactobacillus in human intestine (Getty Images/nopparit)

How sepsis can lead to cell death

Alexander (Sasha) Poltorak, Hayley Muendlein - The Conversation
Enteroviruses, a group of RNA-viruses of the Picornaviridae family including Echo-viruses, Coxsackie-viruses, Rhino-viruses, Polio-virus and other (Getty Images/Dr_Microbe)

Newly-discovered organisms eat viruses

Troy Farah
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People wait in line to be tested for COVID-19 at Union Station on January 7, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. A free distribution of COVID rapid test kits for those who received vaccination shots or booster shots was also held nearby in Union Station. Thirty new deaths and over 37,000 new cases of COVID-19 were reported by Los Angeles County amid the continued spread of the Omicron variant. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

COVID-19 testing fraud rampant

Anjeanette Damon - ProPublica
Body System concept (Getty Images/zf L)

What does "heart rate variability" mean?

Anne R. Crecelius - The Conversation
Magic Mushroom (Getty Images/VICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Drug science in 2023 is gonna be lit

Troy Farah
Herpes virus (CAVALLINI JAMES/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Tests start for herpes vaccine

Matthew Rozsa
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