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

Abortion rights advocates and anti-abortion protesters demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court of the United States on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Texas cracks down on medication abortion

Ashley Lopez - KFF Health News
A plastic shield on a cash desk protects staff and customers in a McDonald's restaurant (Mikhail MetzelTASS via Getty Images)

Rae Ellen Bichell
Man sleeping with cpap mask because of obstructive sleep apnea (Getty Images/no_limit_pictures)

Why millions love their CPAPs

Matthew Rozsa
Pro-choice demonstrators protest outside of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on November 1, 2021. The Supreme Court is set to hear challenges to Texas' restrictive abortion laws. - The conservative-majority US Supreme Court hears challenges on Monday to the most restrictive law passed since abortion was made a constitutional right nearly 50 years ago -- a Texas bill that bans a woman from terminating a pregnancy after six weeks. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Texas is stopping me from providing care

Bhavik Kumar
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Emotionally stressed businesswoman with coffee cup at table in living room (Getty Images/Maskot)

Modern life is giving us brain fatigue

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Pumpjack at oil industry against cloudy sky during sunset in North Dakota, USA (Getty Images)

The chemical industry's love of oil

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Lonely Australian shepherd puppy freezing on the street while snowing (Getty Images/fotostok_pdv)

Is the cold hurting my dog's paws?

Matthew Rozsa
Billi The Cat (Photo courtesy of Kendra Baker)

Can Billi the talking cat really talk?

Nicole Karlis
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The US Coast Guard is investigating a broken pipeline to this oil platform, named Elly, that has spewed tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the sea off California. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Why are gas prices spiking?

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Climate activists from 'Fridays for Future' take part in a protest against the G20 of World Leaders Summit on October 30, 2021 between the Pyramid of Cestius and Circo Massimo in Rome. (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)

The mental toll of climate activism

Alex Smith - KFF Health News
Dr. Mehmet Oz (Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)

Pennsylvania deserves better than Dr. Oz

Mary Elizabeth Williams
This aerial photo taken on September 7, 2020 shows water being released from the Three Gorges Dam, a hydropower project on the Yangtze river, in Yichang, central China's Hubei province. (STR/AFP/China OUT via Getty Images)

China's rising climate change efforts

Phillip Stalley - The Conversation
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Illustration of a diverse group of people (Getty Images/Angelina Bambina)

Deconstructing the myths of race

Mary Elizabeth Williams
The Sierra Nevada Mountains as seen from the east, California. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

California water supplies threatened

Roger Bales - The Conversation
Alok Sharma (centre) President of the Cop26 climate summit, speaks during an informal stock taking plenary session, during an 'overun' day of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow. Picture date: Saturday November 13, 2021. (Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)

The surprisingly hopeful lesson of COP26

Carl Pope
Money heap under paper cutout vaccine icon (Getty Images/TARIK KIZILKAYA)

The case for a "people's vaccine"

Matthew Rozsa
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Woman working from home, feeling angry (Getty Images/stock_colors)

Why some workers miss the office

Nicole Karlis
The state capitol building in Sacramento, California (Getty Images/PictureLake)

CA's SB 221 a win for mental health

April Dembosky - KFF Health News
Close up of a Pfizer booster vaccine on the day that the vaccination campaign with Pfizer's third booster shot has started on October 6, 2021 in Utrecht, Netherlands. (Patrick van Katwijk/BSR Agency/Getty Images)

Phew: Third shot protects from omicron

Matthew Rozsa
United States crisis and a divided America (Getty Images/wildpixel)

U.S. polarized to the point of no return

Nicole Karlis
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A view of the Los Angeles city skyline as heavy smog shrouds the city in California on May 31, 2015 (Getty/Mark Ralston)

Lower emissions, higher energy costs

Adam Mahoney - Grist
Covid-19 Omicron variant (Getty Images/Andriy Onufriyenko)

Omicron partly evades vaccine immunity

Nicole Karlis
Older man dancing at a night club (Getty Images/Jose Luis Pelaez Inc)

My husband, 65, puts clubbing above me

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/Marija Jovovic)

Demystifying the idea of consciousness

Emily Cataneo - Undark
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