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Science & Health (page 157)

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

Semi Truck on I-5 (Getty Images)

New Jersey will phase out diesel trucks

María Paula Rubiano A. - Grist
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on November 19, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

CDC may change isolation guidance—again

Brett Bachman
Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASAs James Webb Space Telescope onboard, is seen at the launch pad December 23, 2021 at Europes Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called JWST or Webb) is a large infrared telescope with a 21.3 foot (6.5 meter) primary mirror. The observatory will study every phase of cosmic historyfrom within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)

Humanity's space travel plans for 2022

Nicole Karlis
An Amazon employee prepares a package for shipment (RONNY HARTMANN/AFP via Getty Images)

Nursing homes competing with Amazon

Sarah Varney - KFF Health News
A refrigerated display case of fruit and drinks (Getty Images/Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group)

Why not all calories are created equal

Terezie Tolar-Peterson - The Conversation
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) speaks during an event with the Economic Club of Washington at the Capitol Hilton Hotel October 26, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

What Joe Manchin wants

Carl Pope
Triage tents built to alleviate overcrowding in the emergency room and keep separate non-coronavirus (COVID-19) patients at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside, New York. (Jeffrey Basinger/Newsday via Getty Images)

Omicron's odd hospitalization pattern

Nicole Karlis
A cardboard cutout of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, dressed up as the QAnon Shaman, along with other cutouts of people involved in the Capitol insurrection, stand on the National Mall ahead of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce joint hearing on Disinformation Nation: Social Media's Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation in Washington on Thursday, March 25, 2021. The cutouts were placed by the group SumOfUs as an attempt to highlight the role Facebook and other social media organizations played in the Capitol insurrection. (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

What misinformation will 2022 bring?

Anjana Susarla, Dam Hee Kim, Ethan Zuckerman - The Conversation
A bustling hallway in the emergency department at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital due to coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in Oceanside, New York (Jeffrey Basinger/Newsday via Getty Images)

Inside a hospital during a COVID surge

Matthew Wynia - The Conversation
A shot of a body in the morgue (Getty Images/fmajor)

The medical mystery of "voodoo death"

Frank Bures
Janice Brown hooked up to a dialysis machine in COVID-19 unit isolation room at Desert Valley Medical Group, Victorville. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

They were the pandemic’s perfect victims

Duaa Eldeib - ProPublica
Businessman playing with a paper airplane while the world burns (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The climate crisis report card for 2021

Matthew Rozsa
A health worker takes a swab sample from a woman at a rapid coronavirus testing station (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

US breaks single-day case record

Matthew Rozsa
COVID-19 new lambda variant | Bunny the talking Dog | Rising sea levels (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/koto_feja/freie-kreation/Instagram/@what_about_bunny)

Salon's top science stories of 2021

Matthew Rozsa
Harvard University Professor E.O. Wilson in his office at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. USA. Professor Wilson is a biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author. He is considered to be the world's leading authority on the study of ants. (Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)

E.O. Wilson's ant passion

Doug Tallamy - The Conversation
Members of the National Nurses United read the names of the 88 nurses they say have died from COVID-19 while demonstrating in Lafayette Park across from the White House May 07, 2020 in Washington, DC. The union is protesting during Nurses' Week to demand that their employers and the federal government 'provide safe workplaces by providing optimal personal protective equipment (PPE), safe staffing, presumptive eligibility for workers’ compensation benefits and more during the novel coronavirus pandemic. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The CDC caves to commerce

Bob Hennelly
Microplastic | Stomache Pain (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Are microplastics giving us IBS?

Matthew Rozsa
This artist’s impression shows an example of a rogue planet with the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex visible in the background. Rogue planets have masses comparable to those of the planets in our Solar System but do not orbit a star, instead roaming freely on their own. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Rogue planets wander through the galaxy

Nicole Karlis
Antarctica (Getty Images/Johner Images)

The defining words of 2021

Kate Yoder - Grist
Children staying at home during COVIG-19 pandemic (Getty Images/Imgorthand)

Why did CDC cut isolation time in half?

Matthew Rozsa
A man receives a dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in a vaccination clinic set up at St Columba's Church in Sheffield on December 15, 2021 as the UK steps up the country's booster drive to fight a "tidal wave" of Omicron. - The country's medical advisers have raised the Covid Alert Level due to a "rapid increase" in infection from the variant. (OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Double vaxxed, double boosted?

Nicole Karlis
Emergency Room nurses and EMTs tend to patients in hallways at the Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital in Houston, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Long Covid pits patients against doctors

Jack Gorman, David Scales - Undark
An aerial photo shows damage, as cleanup efforts continue after tornado, hit Mayfield, Kentucky, United States on December 12, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

U.S. desperately needs disaster reform

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
A booster dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine is drawn up in a vaccination clinic set up at St Columba's Church in Sheffield on December 15, 2021 as the UK steps up the country's booster drive to fight a "tidal wave" of Omicron. - The country's medical advisers have raised the Covid Alert Level due to a "rapid increase" in infection from the variant. (OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Boosters seem to stop omicron

Matthew Rozsa
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