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Science & Health (page 112)

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

Vector of a man looking in the mirror and seeing themself as a woman (Getty Images/SIphotography)

The autism and gender dysphoria link

Matthew Rozsa
Autumn Trees at Walden Pond (Getty Images/Mick Roessler)

Fact-checking Thoreau’s observations

Tara K. Miller, Richard B. Primack, Abe Miller-Rushing - The Conversation
Emperor Penguins in Antarctica (Getty Images/Paul Souders)

The great threat emperor penguins face

Stephanie Jenouvrier - The Conversation
A nurse prepares an injection of the Moderna dose vaccine on 26 September, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. (Alejandro Martinez Velez/Europa Press via Getty Images)

Pandemic greed killed 1.3 million: study

Troy Farah
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Gay couple sitting outside together (Getty Images/franckreporter)

Same-sex couples cope with stress better

Matthew Rozsa
Wind turbine reflected in solar panels (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

Governors could derail climate plans

John McCracken - Grist
San Pedro Cactus (Wikimedia Commons/Ajor933)

An early example of psychedelic ritual

Troy Farah
Garbage, pollution (Getty Images)

Calif. wants proof plastic is recyclable

Joseph Winters - Grist
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A woman filming yoga on phone, closeup (Getty Images/Teraphim)

How TikTok spreads diet culture myths

Matthew Rozsa
Medical Bill (Getty Images/everydayplus)

Cash for colonoscopies

Markian Hawryluk - KFF Health News
Man on the computer in a dark room (Getty Images/Shannon Fagan)

Why young people are having less sex

Christopher T. Conner
Brazilian former President (2003-2010) and candidate for the leftist Workers Party (PT) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva waves at supporters while leaving the polling station, during the presidential run-off election, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on October 30, 2022. (CARL DE SOUZA/AFP via Getty Images)

Lula vows to halt deforestation

Blanca Begert - Grist
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Boat are partially submerged at a marina in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers, Florida, on September 29, 2022. (GIORGIO VIERA/AFP via Getty Images)

Hurricane Ian's deadly impact on seniors

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
Photo of a person giving money to a beggar (Getty Images/ljubaphoto)

A panhandling study's unsettling finding

Matthew Rozsa
At Lehman High School in Kyle, Texas, a poster warns about the dangers of fentanyl. Four students in the Hays Consolidated Independent School District, south of Austin, died from fentanyl overdoses in July and August. (Colleen DeGuzman/KHN)

When fentanyl came to a Texas school

Colleen DeGuzman
(Getty/t-lorien)

Biogas tax credit benefits factory farms

John McCracken - Grist
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A small bag of straight Fentanyl on display at the State Crime Lab at the Ohio Attorney General's headquarters of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. (Ty Wright for/ For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

An epidemic of fentanyl misinformation

Troy Farah
Colorful sunset overlooking the Colorado River deep in the Grand Canyon (Dean Fikar/Getty Images)

US gov forces Colo. River water cutbacks

Jake Bittle - Grist
Diverse group of happy children getting on school bus (Getty Images/FatCamera)

US offers $1B to electrify schoolbuses

Brett Marsh - Grist
A man holding a non-stick pan with a damaged coating (Getty Images/Elena Gurova)

You eat microplastic when Teflon cracks

Matthew Rozsa
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A tree stump is engulfed in flames in the Bravo Bravo section of the Bootleg Fire on July 21, 2021 in the Fremont National Forest of Oregon. The Bootleg Fire, which started on July 6th near Beatty, Oregon, has burned over 395,000 acres and is currently 38% contained. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)

Ore. residents agog at wildfire warning

Jake Bittle - Grist
(Getty/Ron_Thomas)

LA's flood risk is higher than we knew

Jessie Blaeser - Grist
Baby was sick as Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in kid hospital (Getty Images/graphixchon)

"Tripledemic" could worsen COVID wave

Troy Farah
Autumn Alarm Clock Daylight Savings, concept (Getty Images/IgorBukhlin)

Let's fall back, and stay back

Erin Keane
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