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Science & Health (page 143)

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

Set of syringes with medication (Anna Efetova/Getty Images)

The psychology of "nudging"

Bryony Lau - Undark
Actress Gal Gadot attends the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures' 'Justice League' at Dolby Theatre on November 13, 2017 in Hollywood, California. (Barry King/Getty Images)

The war in Ukraine is not about you

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A kangaroo escapes the fire as the fire front approaches a property on November 15, 2019 in Colo Heights, Australia. (Brett Hemmings/Getty Images)

2020 fires punched hole in ozone layer

Matthew Rozsa
A group demonstrators hold signs as they protest against mandated vaccines outside of the Michigan State Capitol on August 6, 2021 in Lansing, Michigan. There were 44 counties in Michigan at high or substantial levels of community coronavirus transmission, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preventions case and test positivity criteria as of August 5, 2021. (Emily Elconin/Getty Images)

Public health officials don't feel safe

Nicole Karlis
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Couple engaging in tug of war with rope (Getty Images/Malte Mueller)

How "weaponized incompetence" kills love

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Mutating virus variant (Getty Images/wildpixel)

How to prevent future Covid variants

Michael Rose - Undark
Close up side shot of microplastics lay on a person's hand (Getty Images/pcess609)

The plastic chemical in your blood

Matthew Rozsa
Sunflower field at sunset (Kristina Lapinski)

The odd reason nature favors symmetry

Eric Schank
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(Getty/liveslow)

Census undercounts hurt people of color

Adam Mahoney - Grist
Gavel and medicine (Getty Images)

A doctor takes on Big Pharma

Troy Farah - Undark
Stressed business woman working from home on laptop looking worried, tired and overwhelmed. (Getty Images/Nevena1987)

"Weak ties" dissipate during pandemic

Nicole Karlis
Climate change and environmental disasters (Getty Images/Roy Scott)

Hotter than normal? You're not alone

Kelly McClure
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Anti-aircraft missile system (Getty Images/Anton Petrus)

How nuclear safeguards work (or fail)

Matthew Rozsa
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Redistricting negatively impacts tribes

Joseph Lee - Grist
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla talks during a press conference with European Commission President after a visit to oversee the production of the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at the factory of US pharmaceutical company Pfizer, in Puurs, on April 23, 2021. (JOHN THYS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Big Pharma won't let the vaccine out

Charlotte Kilpatrick
Gun On A Table (Getty Images/Edward Olive/EyeEm)

Gun ownership and Black suicide rates

Alex Smith - KFF Health News
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Young female and male environmentalist cleaning lake while picking plastic from claw (Getty Images/Maskot)

Biden plans to clean up the Great Lakes

Eric Schank
Coronavirus crisis volunteer Rhiannon Navin greets local residents arriving to a food distribution center at the WestCop community center on March 18, 2020 in New Rochelle, New York. New Rochelle has been a hot spot for the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Docs shocked by axed Covid drug fund

Nicole Karlis
Wind turbines at a wind farm in Colorado City, Texas, January 21, 2016. (Getty/Spencer Platt)

Is clean energy an inflation solution?

Shannon Osaka - Grist
Hens sit in a chicken shed (Jamie McDonald/Getty Images)

A new pandemic comes for the birds

Matthew Rozsa
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Young woman practicing yoga on the beach. (Kristina Jovanovic / Getty Images)

Is permanent DST better for our health?

Nicole Karlis
Smog over Los Angeles (Getty Images/Robert Landau)

Ozone linked to teenage depression

Eric Schank
Electric vehicles are displayed before a news conference with White House Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about the American Jobs Plan and to highlight electric vehicles at Union Station near Capitol Hill on April 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Gas prices turn US to electric vehicles

Chad Small - Grist
A nurse places a blanket over a patient that had just been admitted to the emergency room at Regional Medical Center on May 21, 2020 in San Jose, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

COVID death toll hugely undercounted

Nicole Karlis
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