Summer sale: Save 58%

Science & Health (page 165)

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

Mitch McConnell and Kyrsten Sinema (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Drug industry dollars flow into congress

Rachana Pradhan, Elizabeth Lucas, Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
Pregnant Woman (Getty Images/Pekic)

Can your friendship survive infertility?

Minna Dubin
Medical professional at reception with patients waiting in lobby at hospital (Getty Images/Luis Alvarez)

COVID aside, human health is improving

Sandro Galea
Hundreds are gathered to protest vaccination mandate in New York City, United States on September 13, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

How COVID eroded our trust in doctors

Mikkael Sekeres
Gun On A Table (Getty Images/Edward Olive/EyeEm)

"We have to reconceptualize suicide"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
TV screen with spooky figure in the monitor (Getty Images/Andyborodaty)

The science behind ghost hunting

Matthew Rozsa
Eating candy in our backyard after the Halloween (Getty Images/Aleksandar Nakic)

Sugar: The scariest part of Halloween?

Matthew Rozsa
Child getting vaccinated (Getty Images/vgajic)

FDA authorizes Pfizer vaccine for kids

Nicole Karlis
(Drew Angerer/Getty Images))

How Big Tobacco made menthol racial

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Laughing at Twitter (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Do Twitter dunks amplify conservatives?

Matthew Rozsa
Gun and Coronavirus COVID-19 spores (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why is gun violence surging?

Matthew Rozsa
MOND models—which don’t require dark matter—have not previously been able to reproduce the temperature variations measured in the cosmic microwave background (shown here), a relic from the big bang. But now researchers have created a MOND-inspired model that matches these data just as well as dark matter models do. (WMAP Science Team/NASA)

Perhaps dark matter doesn't exist at all

Nicole Karlis
People take photos of water filling the entrance of The Plaza Shops in Battery Park in New York on October 30, 2012 as New Yorkers cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The storm left large parts of New York City without power and transportation. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

Toxic waste is leaking into our water

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
Members of the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the US, hold a swastika burning after a rally on April 21, 2018 in Draketown, Georgia. | Twitter logo seen displayed on a smartphone (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Twitter tackled right-wing hate

Matthew Rozsa
Magnet Over Earth (Getty Images/CSA Images)

Is Earth inside a magnetic tunnel?

Matthew Rozsa
Coronavirus mutations, concept (Getty images/VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

How serious is the delta plus variant?

Nicole Karlis
Pigeons (Iain Blake)

When humans abandoned our pigeon pets

Nicole Karlis
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Matthew Pearce/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Texas bans popular cannabis extract

Kevin Reynolds - The Texas Tribune
Cute dog running outside (Getty Images/Capuski)

ADHD manifests in dogs, too

Matthew Rozsa
Solar panels on the green hills (Getty Images/LeoPatrizi)

There's really no "energy crisis"

Carl Pope
Brain with eyeglasses (Getty Images/Jolygon)

The brain has a "backup system"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A senior patient using a mask looking through the window at the hospital (Getty Images)

Ageism in health care harms seniors

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
Drenched in pig's blood, Carrie White, played by Sissy Spacek, stares in shock in Brian De Palma's horror film 'Carrie', 1976. (Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

Gory movies are... good for you?

Matthew Rozsa
A child reading braille (Marilyn Nieves / Getty Images)

Students can learn with their mouths

Alyssa Paparella - Massive Science
« Previous
Page: 165
Next »