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Science & Health (page 127)

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

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)

How polio crept back into the U.S.

Robin Fields - ProPublica
Happy friend group chatting laughing drinking coffee in cafe (Getty Images)

How to feel more connected to others

Dave Smallen - The Conversation
Unity and successful teamwork (Getty Images/whyframestudio)

Americans are becoming more cooperative

Eric Schank
Heatwave hot sun (Getty Images/chuchart duangdaw)

Why hot days increase your risk of death

Nicole Karlis
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Pro-life activists protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court as they wait for the court to hand down its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Monday morning, June 13, 2022 (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"Sterilization showers" proliferating

Aaron Bolton, Ellis Juhlin - KFF Health News
Several young people running on treadmill in gym wearing face mask (Getty Images)

Why you may want to double that workout

Matthew Rozsa
Photo of hands holding tissue with blood (Cunaplus_M.Faba)

How dangerous is human blood?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere surrounding a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like star on July 12, 2022 in space. The observation, which reveals the presence of specific gas molecules based on tiny decreases in the brightness of precise colors of light, is the most detailed of its kind to date, demonstrating Webb's unprecedented ability to analyze atmospheres hundreds of light-years away. (NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)

How Webb telescope will search for E.T.

Chris Impey, Daniel Apai - The Conversation
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Small siblings covering their ears while refusing to listen their parents arguing in dining room (Getty Images/skynesher)

Going childfree to stop the abuse cycle

Christina Wyman
Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924) the 28th President of the United States of America | Sharks (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Woodrow Wilson's war on sharks

Matthew Rozsa
Arctic polar bear and cubs in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Getty/sarkophoto)

Polar bears are eating human garbage

Thomas Scott Smith - The Conversation
President Joe Biden traveled to Somerset, MA to deliver remarks on tackling the climate crisis and seizing the opportunity of a clean energy future to create jobs and lower costs for families. (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Biden holds off on climate emergency

Daniel Farber - The Conversation
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A couple taking a selfie with their dogs (Getty Images/Thanasis Zovoilis)

The curious rise of "dog parent–shaming"

Nicole Karlis
Monkeypox virus (Getty Images/kontekbrothers)

Monkeypox declared global emergency

Kelly McClure
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy | A view of a residential area in Middlesex County as floodwater covers streets that norâeaster left behind flash floods east coast, in New Jersey, United States on October 26, 2021. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

New Jersey's dismal climate plan

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Cell structure and mitochondrion (Getty Images/ SciePro/Science Photo Library)

When cells become "zombies"

Patricia Opresko, Ryan Barnes - The Conversation
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Jupiter and Saturn (NASA/iStock/Getty Images)

Why Saturn has rings and Jupiter doesn't

Matthew Rozsa
A nurse gives a little girl a shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine while her brother covers his eyes at a vaccination site for 5-11 year-olds at Eastmonte Park. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Worldwide, children's vaccine rates fall

Nicole Karlis
U.S. President Joe Biden departs the Oval Office and walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House July 20, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

What are risks for COVID-positive Biden?

Matthew Rozsa
People On Illuminated City At Night, New Orleans, USA (Getty Images / Kevin Ocampo / EyeEm)

Light pollution lengthens pollen season

Yuyu Zhou - The Conversation
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Teenagers Vaping (Getty Images/Aleksandr Yu)

Weed vapes produce a toxic gas: study

Matthew Rozsa
Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. (NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez)

A micrometeoroid damages James Webb

Matthew Rozsa
Man takes a PCR swab test at Gatwick Airport on November 27, 2020 in London, England. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Experts still torn on throat swabbing

Nicole Karlis
Sign-carrying pro-choice & pro-life advocates clashing outside Supreme Court, demonstrating against Pennsylvania case ruling imperiling 1973 Roe vs Wade decision legalizing abortion. (Diana Walker/Getty Images)

What drives anti-abortion beliefs?

Jaimie Arona Krems, Martie Haselton - The Conversation
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