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Science & Health (page 174)

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

A United Airlines passenger jet prepares to land at Reagan National Airport on February 5, 2020 in Washington, DC (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Aviation’s dirty secret: leaded fuel

Yvette Cabrera - Grist
Perseverance's Selfie with Ingenuity (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

Mars' weird geology vexes Perseverance

Nicole Karlis
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Some governors push for antibody therapy

JoNel Aleccia - KFF Health News
A general view of the Ascension St. Vincent's Riverside Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. (Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images)

Hospitals’ venture capital ambitions

Jordan Rau - KFF Health News
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Ultrasound pregnancy examination of a young woman in a Medical Clinic during COVID-19 outbreak (Getty Images)

Unvaxxed and pregnant: A deadly combo

Nicole Karlis
A collapsed bridge in Mexico Beach, Florida on October 12, 2018, two days after Hurricane Michael struck. (Charlotte Kesl for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The media gets climate change right

Kate Yoder - Grist
A group gathered at an anti-vaccine protest (Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

The unvaxxed face hurdles to work

Julie Appleby - KFF Health News
Human Evolution Illustration (Getty Images/Man_Half-tube)

The evolution culture war quietly ends

Matthew Rozsa
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Firefighters push down a wall while battling against a burning apartment complex in Paradise, north of Sacramento, California on November 09, 2018 (Getty/Josh Edelson)

PG&E wants to bury power lines

Maddie Stone - Grist
Michael Spatz, L, a volunteer with the Alexandria medical reserve corps, helps AshaLetia Henderson through her first positive-case call as a coronavirus contact tracer, where the Alexandria Health Department set up offices for coronavirus contact tracing and investigations at the Oswald Durant Arts Center in Alexandria, VA, on Wednesday, June 24, 2020. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Fatigue works against contact tracing

Amanda Michelle Gomez - KFF Health News
Futuristic Nuclear Fusion Particles Simulation concept (iStock/Getty Images)

Nuclear fusion sees the light

Matthew Rozsa
The Pfizer logo is seen reflected in a drop on a needle (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

What "FDA approval" really means

Nicole Karlis
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Texas Capitol building (Mark Thompson/Getty Images)

More Texas workers dying of extreme heat

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Shot of a young man holding a crate of freshly picked produce on a farm (Getty Images)

High temps put farmworkers at risk

Miranda Green, Heidi De Marco - KFF Health News
Medical syringes are seen with Pfizer company logo displayed on a screen in the background in this illustration photo taken in Poland on October 12, 2020. (Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

FDA approval means it is mandate time

Jon Skolnik
Vials and a medical syringe seen displayed in front of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States logo. FDA finds the COVID-19 vaccine. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Don't fear "unapproved" medicine

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Fresh breast milk in the breast pump milk container (Karl Tapales/Getty Images)

A push for donor breast milk

Sandy Ong - Undark
"We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation" by Eric M. Garcia (Photo illustration by Salon/Kristin Herbruck/Mariner Books)

Who speaks for the autistic?

Matthew Rozsa
Antidepressants | Covid-19 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

An anti-depressant to treat COVID?

Nicole Karlis
Trash in the ocean water (Getty Images/Juan Camilo Bernal)

Environmental treaties US should ratify

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
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A health worker wearing a personal protective equipment suit (PPE) take the cover off a manhole for inspection in Marseille. The COMETE unit (Covid Marseille Environmental Testing Expertise) collects samples of wastewater at various points in the city to determine the neighborhoods, schools or certain buildings contaminated by Covid-19 through testing of these samples. (Denis Thaust/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

A new COVID detection tool: poop

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News
A group gathered at an anti-vaccine protest (Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

The psychology of anti-vaccination

Doreen Dodgen-Magee
Box of vaccine vials (Getty images/Iryna Veklich)

Hoarding the vaccine at our own peril

Charlotte Kilpatrick
Tuli, 11, walks long distances every morning and evening to collect drinking water with her mother and aunt. Her school is closed due to the coronavirus pandemic and she passes her time doing household work with her mother. All visuals by ZAKIR HOSSAIN CHOWDHURY for UNDARK (Zakir Hossain Chowdhury / Undark)

Long walks for fresh water in Bangladesh

Zakir Hossain Chowdhury - Undark
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