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Science & Health (page 163)

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

Tick on a leaf (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

How vermin helped shape the modern world

Emily Cataneo - Undark
A sign on Front Street that reads "COVID-19 Vaccinations / Vacuna contra el COVID-19" at the Reading Area Community College campus in Reading, PA Tuesday morning September 14, 2021 (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

America's crisis of rationality

Taylor Dotson
Asteroid and swarm of meteorites flying towards Earth (Getty Images/Mike Mareen)

NASA's asteroid deflection spacecraft

Matthew Rozsa
Anti-Abortion activists gather in oppostion in front of the supreme court during the annual Women’s March October 2, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Women's March and other groups organized marches across the country to protest the new abortion law in Texas. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

SB 8 compounds trauma of rape survivors

Ashley Lopez - KFF Health News
Solar panels on the green hills (Getty Images/LeoPatrizi)

The Paris Agreement's quietly success

Shannon Osaka - Grist
Empty Lecture Hall (Getty Images/UpperCut Images)

Against remote learning

Richard Detweiler
A nuclear blast and pollution from smokestacks, with the United Nations seal over top (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

One government, one planet?

Matthew Rozsa
Downtown drugstore in the evening on 3rd March 2020 in Selma, Alabama, United States. (Barry Lewis/InPictures via Getty Images)

Small town pharmacies are vanishing

Markian Hawryluk - KFF Health News
A young woman is standing in a forest at sunset (Getty Images)

Biden's bill will help save biodiversity

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Sunrise from South Colony Lake below Crestone Needle in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Westcliffe, Colorado. (Getty Images/Mike Berenson/Colorado Captures)

USGS mining efforts shake Colorado town

Sarah Scoles - Undark
Coronavirus and the ear (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How COVID-19 can infect the ear

Matthew Rozsa
Artist's impression of a hot and dense accretion disk around a black hole, which can be a rich production site of heavy elements. Neutron-rich material is ejected from the disk, enabling the rapid neutron-capture process (r-process). The light blue region is a particularly fast ejection of matter, called a jet, which typically originates parallel to the disk's rotation axis. (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA)

There's gold in them thar black holes

Nicole Karlis
Pakistani soldiers check the documents of stranded Afghan nationals wanting to return to Afghanistan at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing point in Chaman on August 15, 2021, after the Taliban took control of the Afghan border town in a rapid offensive across the country. (AFP via Getty Images)

Child marriages fueled by climate change

Ruchi Kumar - Undark
Typing on laptop (Getty Images)

The future of work is hybrid

Alanah Mitchell - The Conversation
In this photo illustration, Puff Bar E-Cigarette products sit on a counter on October 12, 2021 in Miami, Florida. (Photo Illustration by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

E-cig maker Puff Bar faces probe

Matthew Rozsa
A man displays a piece of microneedle patch (SAM YEH/AFP via Getty Images)

A "next-gen" COVID vaccine is in tests

Nicole Karlis
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the September jobs numbers in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on October 08, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Proposed drilling ban near sacred site

Jena Brooker - Grist
Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Facebook blocks access to misinfo data

Ethan Zuckerman - The Conversation
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) listens during a committee meeting on Capitol Hill on October 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Manchin's opposition is "inexcusable"

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
LROC Wide Angle Camera (WAC) mosaic of the south polar region, width ~600 km (NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University)

The moon has an icy secret

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/luoman)

Stop listening to economists on climate

Jag Bhalla - Undark
Borax Laundry Soap Box (Lauren A. Little/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle/Getty Images)

Why anti-vaxxers are bathing in Borax

Matthew Rozsa
Protesters hold placards during the demonstration. Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers gathered at Indiana University's Sample Gates to protest against mandatory Covid vaccinations IU is requiring for students, staff and faculty during the upcoming fall semester. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Performers struggle without mask laws

Bruce Alpert - KFF Health News
Baby Shoes (Getty Images/wragg)

The public grief of infertility

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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