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Science & Health (page 149)

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

Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why the Big Lie is believed by so many

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/AleksandarNakic)

Shortage of therapists at colleges

Mark Kreidler - KFF Health News
Joe Rogan (Michael S. Schwartz/Getty Images)

Rogan can't stop talking up ivermectin

Nicole Karlis
COVID-19 Spores and Marijuana (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Experts weigh in on cannabis–COVID study

Matthew Rozsa
A field of stag-horn coral bleached white on the Great Barrier Reef (Getty Images/Brett Monroe Garner)

Mass bleaching predicted for reefs

Eric Schank
A cemetery stands in stark contrast to the chemical plants that surround it October 15, 2013. 'Cancer Alley' is one of the most polluted areas of the United States and lies along the once pristine Mississippi River that stretches some 80 miles from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, where a dense concentration of oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and other chemical industries reside alongside suburban homes. (Giles Clarke/Getty Images)

EPA is tackles pollution in Cancer Alley

Kate Yoder - Grist
Side view with focus on background of woman in late 50s traveling with teenage daughter and squeezing sanitizer into her hand while flying in time of COVID-19. (Getty Images/xavierarnau)

Omicron changes the risk of air travel

Nicole Karlis
(emneves/Getty Images)

Covid packs far less punch in Vermont

Sarah Varney - KFF Health News
Magnetar. An artist’s impression of what the object might look like if it’s a magnetar. Magnetars are incredibly magnetic neutron stars, some of which sometimes produce radio emission. Known magnetars rotate every few seconds, but theoretically, “ultra-long period magnetars” could rotate much more slowly. (Photo courtesy of The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR))

A space anomaly blinks slowly at Earth

Nicole Karlis
COVID-19 home rapid test kits are seen on a shelf at a Walmart Neighborhood Market in Orlando, Florida. Walmart and Kroger are raising the price for the hard-to-find BinaxNOW rapid tests after the directive from the White House to sell them at cost has expired. Test kits that were formerly sold for $14 will now retail for $19.88 at Walmart and $23.99 at Kroger. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Omicron strains test kit sharing

Katheryn Houghton - KFF Health News
Great Dane and a Chihuahua (Getty Images/Eriklam)

The gene that makes toy dogs small

Matthew Rozsa
Medium shot of a female doctor discussing diagnosis with elderly male patient and his female relative (Getty Images/EvgeniyShkolenko)

The head injury–dementia connection

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A sign advertising an apartment for rent is displayed in a window in California (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Renters are at risk to climate disasters

Adam Mahoney - Grist
Cleaning robot 'Franzi' cleans in the entrance area of a hospital in Munich Neuperlach, southern Germany, on February 12, 2021. - Cleaning robot Franzi always makes sure the floors are spotless at the Munich hospital where she works, but she has also taken on a new role in the pandemic: cheering up patients and staff. (CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP via Getty Images)

Robots are coming for the elderly

Michelle Drouin
Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, stands in the foundry of the Tesla Gigafactory (Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Is Elon Musk trying to get in your head?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty/kosmos111)

Drug-resistant malaria appears in Africa

Pratik Pawar - Undark
Natural gas flame on a stove (Robert Clare/Getty Images)

New study shows gas leaking from stoves

Emily Pontecorvo, Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Nurses take care of a patient infected with the Covid-19 at the intensive care unit of the Timone hospital, in Marseille, southern France on January 5, 2022. (NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP via Getty Images)

"Mild" omicron isn't so mild after all

Nicole Karlis
John Wayne Gacy, Nelson Rockefeller and Ted Bundy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why serial killers are drawn to politics

Matthew Rozsa
(Leonardo Carrato/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

A new take on Wordle

Kate Yoder - Grist
A worker inspects cannabis plants. (MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP via Getty Images)

Is cannabis equity a pipe dream?

Donnell Alexander - Capital & Main
nurse, reacts to tiredness early on April 11, 2020, during her night shift in the intensive care unit exclusively for COVID-19 patients at the Ixelles Hospital in Brussels, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus. (ARIS OIKONOMOU/AFP via Getty Images)

Working nurses to death

Matthew Rozsa
Spiral galaxy halo (Getty Images)

Spirituality in space

Adam R. Shapiro - Undark
Clinical support technician Douglas Condie extracts viruses from swab samples so that the genetic structure of a virus can be analysed and identified in the coronavirus testing laboratory at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, on February 19, 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Jane Barlow - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Omicron now most contagious virus ever

Matthew Rozsa, Nicole Karlis
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