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Science & Health (page 163)

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

Faucet with Water Drip (Getty Images)

$15B approved to fix lead pipes

Sandy West - KFF Health News
Warty Comb Jelly (Mnemiopsis leidyi) (Getty Images/Andrey Nekrasov)

The warty comb jelly's disappearing act

Anna Rogers - Massive Science
LeBron James #6 of the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center on November 02, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

James' vaccine comments worry some

Max Jordan Nguemeni - Undark
Model of Human Coronavirus, fractured (Getty Images/Alexandr Gnezdilov Light Painting)

Why COVID is unlikely to become deadlier

Nicole Karlis
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That stinky armpit smell? It’s not you

Madeline Barron - Massive Science
Man lying in his bed, trying to sleep (Getty Images/kbeis)

The full moon is hurting men's sleep

Matthew Rozsa
Doctor delivering news to patient (Getty Images/LWA)

Why it's so hard to talk to doctors

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Exterior of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) headquarters (Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)

CDC effort to track HIV raises concerns

Tynan Stewart - Undark
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Watercore Apple (Getty Images/noonika)

The disorder that makes apples sweeter

Joy Saha
Cal firefighter Travis Moore lights a backfire along highway 50 as the Caldor Fire burns near Lake Tahoe, CA on Tuesday August 31, 2021. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Prescribed fires can prevent big blazes

Madeline Ostrander - Undark
Trees growing over an abandoned house (Getty Images/Dirk Hoffmann/EyeEm)

It's time to embrace degrowth

Peter Sutoris
Used hypodermic needles are seen in a bin at the India Street Public Health Center Needle Exchange in Portland, Maine. (Joel Page/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

We're treating addiction all wrong

Ryan Hampton
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Golden brown barbecued chicken wings (Getty Images/Boblin)

Decades of hype made protein a superfood

Hannah Cutting-Jones - The Conversation
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Chase Center July 14, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden delivered remarks on his campaign's 'Build Back Better' clean energy economic plan. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Democrats may pinch Advantage funding

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
Ariel Henley (Paul Ngo)

The repercussions of "beauty bias"

Ariel Henley
The James Webb Space Telescope hovering over Earth, concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Astronomy doubles down on search for ET

Nicole Karlis
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A conversation can make an ant fertile

Matthew Rozsa
Doctor Talking with Patient (Getty Images/Jim Craigmyle)

Who decides what's "mentally healthy"?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Can AI’s appetite for data be tamed?

John McQuaid - Undark
Sad woman in hospital waiting room (Getty Images)

Mental health patients left in limbo

Andy Miller - KFF Health News
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi presents his national statement on day two of COP26 at SECC on November 1, 2021 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. 2021 sees the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference. (Alastair Grant - Pool/Getty Images)

The economic law that could save Earth

Carl Pope
Small boy getting a vaccine on his arm by a pediatrician wearing gloves. (Getty Images/Luis Alvarez)

The pediatric COVID vaccine, explained

Nicole Karlis
A field of dying maize plants (Getty Images/Guido Dingemans, De Eindredactie)

Climate change comes for the supermarket

Matthew Rozsa
Capitol Hill, and logos of Chevron, BP, Exxon and Shell oil companies (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Oil execs play dumb at hearing

Joseph Winters, Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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