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Science & Health (page 106)

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

Carving of a small cat at the archaeological site of Kom Ombo, Egypt | A house cat with a collar (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Cat domestication follows colonization

Troy Farah
Sad cat (Getty Images/LeoCH Studio)

The ugly truth about declawing cats

Matthew Rozsa
Hepatitis C virus (Getty Images/CAVALLINI JAMES/BSIP/Universal Images Group)

Protein discovery could herald vaccine

Lisa Eshun-Wilson, Alba Torrents De La Peña - The Conversation
Medical Bill (Getty Images/everydayplus)

The Medicare Advantage plan scandal

Fred Schulte, Holly K. Hacker - KFF Health News
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Big farm tractor tilling dusty Springtime fields (Getty Images/JamesBrey)

Midwest soil eroding faster than ever

John McCracken - Grist
Solar panels and wind turbines (Getty Images/zf L)

A green breakthrough in Louisiana

Emily Pontecorvo, Lylla Younes - Grist
Magic mushrooms and psilocybin molecule (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The debate over synthetic 'shrooms

Troy Farah
(FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

The myth of "green hydrogen"

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
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Mother Breastfeeding Baby (Getty Images)

People don't mate randomly

Richard Border, Noah Zaitlen - The Conversation
Desert Tortoise (Getty Images/Fuse)

A desert icon faces near-certain doom

Troy Farah
Man pushing in headphone earbud (Getty Images/agrobacter)

Are earbuds wrecking our hearing?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Engraved Wall Street sign, New York, USA (Doug Armand/Getty Images)

Wall Street reneges on climate promises

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
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A registered nurse with The Los Angeles Department of Public Health, administers a COVID booster at a vaccination clinic (Christina House / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Are vaccine side effects overblown?

Matthew Rozsa
Prisoners reflected in glasses on a shelf (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Were your kids' glasses made by slaves?

Gail Cornwall, Michelle Wallace
Doctor uses stethoscope to listen to baby (Getty Images/Svetlana Repnitskaya)

How to protect your baby from SIDS

Rachel Moon - The Conversation
Close view on the green young corn and some fertilizers (Getty Images/i-Stockr)

Save the soil!

Diana Kruzman - Grist
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A provoran, visualized by scanning electron microscopy (Tikhonenkov, Mikhailov, Gawryluk, Belyaev, Mathur, Karpov, Zagumyonnyi, Borodina, Prokina, Mylnikov, Aleoshin, and Keeling, Nature)

Microbial "lions" are a new type of life

Troy Farah
Apollo 11 rises past the launch tower pad 39A to begin Man's first lunar landing mission, Kennedy Space Center, July 16, 1969 (Photo12/UIG/Getty Images)

America's dubious Space Race recruits

Matthew Rozsa
Hearing aids and an artificial human ear model (Getty Images/Liudmyla Liudmyla)

The pros and cons of OTC hearing aids

Bradley Kesser - The Conversation
(Getty Images)

We need equitable depression screenings

Maria Garcia - The Conversation
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Baby playing with hanging mobile (Getty Images/Guido Mieth)

"Spoil" your baby — it's good for them

Amy Root - The Conversation
Corona virus missing puzzle pieces (Getty Images/Zuka83)

Ethics of un-peer reviewed paper reports

Alice Fleerackers - The Conversation
The Great Barrier Reef in Queensland Australia (Getty/hypergurl)

Five new species of coral discovered

Jeremy Horowitz - The Conversation
(Getty/Carl de Souza)

What is ethical animal research?

Lana Ruvolo Grasser, Rachelle Stammen - The Conversation
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