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Science & Health (page 125)

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

The Sunrise Motel remains flooded after Hurricane Irma hit the area on September 11, 2017 in East Naples, Florida. (Getty/Mark Wilson)

Climate change is worsening disease

Tristan McKenzie, Camilo Mora, Hannah Von Hammerstein - The Conversation
Emergency Room nurses and EMTs tend to patients in hallways at the Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital in Houston, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

When abortion laws and ER care conflict

Harris Meyer - KFF Health News
Monkeypox virus (Getty Images/kontekbrothers)

How monkeypox spreads

Rebecca S.B. Fischer - The Conversation
Doctor briefing medical students (Getty Images/sturti)

Who's going to teach abortion now?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Getty Images)

Nature's secret drug stockpile

Ashu Tripathi - The Conversation
Paramedics carry a stretcher with a patient out of an ambulance at Brooklyn Hospital Center on March 27, 2020 in New York City. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Monkeypox gives paramedics COVID déjà vu

Bob Hennelly
The state capitol building in Sacramento, California (Getty Images/PictureLake)

California could make abortion a right

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
A doctor with the Saxony-Anhalt Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, takes a swab from a patient at the fever outpatient clinic in Halle/Saale. (Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

How many times can you get COVID?

Nicole Karlis
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Futuristic Robot AI Leadership Concept (Getty Images/gremlin)

Will a super AI kill us all? Maybe

Émile P. Torres
Empty ampoules containing Bavarian Nordic's monkeypox vaccine (Imvanex / Jynneos) stand in a box on a table at Klinikum rechts der Isar. (Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images)

A virologist explains monkeypox vaccine

Maureen Ferran - The Conversation
Coronavirus on the brain (Getty Images)

Cognitive rehab to treat COVID brain fog

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
Earth viewed from Space (Getty Images/Jaiphet Seehawong)

Earth is spinning faster than it should

Nicole Karlis
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Abortion drug pills and drinking water (Getty Images/Peter Dazeley)

Abortion pill reversal is "unscientific"

Nicole Karlis
Valencian Figurita Pidgeon (Getty Images/Richard Bailey)

Pet pigeons teach lessons in letting go

E.B. Bartels
Empty ampoules containing Bavarian Nordic's monkeypox vaccine (Imvanex / Jynneos) stand in a box on a table at Klinikum rechts der Isar. (Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Monkeypox may already be a pandemic

Nicole Karlis
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)

Polio remerges as possible threat

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
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Human brain, conceptual illustration (Getty Images/KTSDesign/SCIENCEPHOTOLIBRARY)

Justice system is failing mentally ill

Katheryn Houghton
Pfizer's Paxlovid is displayed on July 07, 2022 in Pembroke Pines, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Biden suffers a Paxlovid "rebound"

Nicole Karlis
Serena Williams of the USA celebrates with her father Richard Williams after her Ladies’ Singles final match against Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland on day twelve of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 7, 2012 in London, England. (Clive Rose/Getty Images)

In defense of Black fatherhood

Alvin Thomas
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Senate climate bill, broken down

Julia Kane, Emily Pontecorvo, Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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Silkworm spinning silk (Getty Images/baona)

Silk may help solve microplastic problem

Matthew Rozsa
In this aerial view, flooding is seen on June 14, 2022 in Livingston, Montana. The Yellowstone River hit has a historic high flow from rain and snow melt from the mountains in and around Yellowstone National Park. (William Campbell/Getty Images)

Climate change intensifies water cycle

Mathew Barlow - The Conversation
An aerial view shows people walking past a homeless encampment in the afternoon heat on July 21, 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona. The National Weather Service issued an excessive heat warning for eight counties in Arizona including Maricopa County today. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

When will Phoenix become uninhabitable?

Matthew Rozsa
Author Michael Pollan | Scientist examining magic mushrooms with a loupe and tweezers in a petri dish at laboratory (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Michael Pollan on drugs

Eric Schank
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