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

Activists rally outside the State Capitol in support of abortion rights in Atlanta, Georgia on May 14, 2022 (ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images)

More abortion battles in Georgia

Sam Whitehead - KFF Health News
Brad Pitt poses at the 92nd Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on February 09, 2020 in Hollywood, California. (Steve Granitz/WireImage/Getty Images)

Pitt shares struggle with face blindness

Matthew Rozsa
COVID-19 vaccines stored at -80 degrees celsius in the pharmacy at Roseland Community Hospital on December 18, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Vaccines saved 200,000 lives, study says

Matthew Rozsa
Patients gather in the counseling area at one of the last remaining abortion providers in the South, at the Jackson Women's Health Organization also known as The Pink House in Jackson, MS on June 7, 2022. (Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

The harm of abortion waiting periods

Nicole Karlis
An NHS staff prepares to administer the Covid-19 vaccination booster jab during a press tour at a vaccination center (Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Omicron boosters could be here by fall

Nicole Karlis
Doctor holding a rosary with his stethoscope (Getty Images/Joaquin Corbalan)

The Catholic church is dictating care

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Doctor Doing Ultrasound / Sonogram Scan to a Pregnant Woman (Getty Images/gorodenkoff)

How an abortion saved my child's life

Kristin Diversi
Abstract stomach made from paper with many different pills (Getty Images/Oksana Smyshliaeva)

Are you trading one pain for another?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Friends celebrating US Independence Day (Getty Images/M_a_y_a)

An unhealthy empire state of mind

Matthew Rozsa
The German cockroach (Blattella germanica) (Getty Images/ErikKarits)

Mutant roaches go on a sugar diet

Pamela Appea
Fireworks in the shape of smiling faces are sent during the Opening Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at PyeongChang Olympic Stadium on February 9, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

The science of ‘shape’ fireworks

Nicole Karlis
A grey seal with a plastic frisbee stuck around its neck amongst the colony on the beach at Horsey in Norfolk, as RSPCA data show the number of animals affected by plastic litter is at an all-time high, with incidents increasing by 22% in just four years. (Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images)

Seals are dying from plastic pollution

Matthew Rozsa
Young woman blurry reflection on the damaged mirror (Getty images/Rafael Elias)

"My face looked wrong": What BDD is like

Tammy Rabideau
Doctor examining belly of expectant mother in hospital room (Getty Images/staticnak1983)

The hell and high water of forced birth

Nicole Karlis
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Thomas: "COVID vax from abortion cells"

Brandon Gage - Alternet
Protesters hold a banner near the U.S. Supreme Court on June 13, 2022 in Washington, DC. The court continues to release opinions as the country awaits major case decisions pertaining to abortion rights, guns, religion and climate change in the the coming weeks before the end of their term. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

SCOTUS delivers a dagger to the planet

Eric Schank
Mom breastfeeding a baby (Getty Images/istetiana)

Parents react to new feeding guidelines

Nicole Karlis
SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images)

Space tourism worsens climate change

Matthew Rozsa
IUD (Getty Images/Carol Yepes)

Are contraceptives next for SCOTUS?

Nicole Karlis
Shhh (Getty Images/Ryan McVay)

Why you're carrying around those secrets

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, receive a briefing on COVID-19 from health experts in Wilmington, Delaware, on August 13, 2020. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden's COVID "new normal" is not normal

Martha Lincoln, Lorenzo Servitje
June 11, 2022 in Woodbridge, New Jersey. The costs of petrol, food and other necessities jumped in May, rising inflation in the United States to a new four-decade high. Consumer prices surged 8.6 percent last month from 12 months earlier, faster than April year-over-year surge of 8.3 percent, the US Department of Labor said Friday. (Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Getty Images)

A history of skyrocketing gas prices

Matthew Rozsa
A protester holds a placard saying, "Vaginas are more regulated than guns, maybe my vagina should start shooting bullets," during a Women's March to demand safe and legal access to abortion. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The scramble to reschedule abortions

Nicole Karlis
Army Corps of Engineers attend the the Great Mississippi Flood, the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States, 1927. (Fotosearch/Getty Images)

This historic flood was a warning

Matthew Rozsa
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