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Science & Health (page 180)

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

Pro-choice protest. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

What abortion requires in the South

Sarah Varney - KFF Health News
Old computer hard drives await shipment for metal recovery at a recycling facility. (David Friedman/Getty Images)

Can you recycle a hard drive?

Maddie Stone - Grist
Two women with protective face masks on sitting on park bench with social distance between. (Getty Images)

Is outside no longer safe from COVID?

Nicole Karlis
Emily Oster | Parenting (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Rachel Hulin)

Why "data parenting" stokes controversy

Gail Cornwall
British-Dutch oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell PLC sign , commonly known as Shell (Aleksander Kalka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Shell sponsors museum exhibit on climate

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
(Getty/acilo)

House Republicans on climate change

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport
Female doctor giving covid-19 vaccine to a toddler (Roberto Jimenez Mejias/Getty Images)

The timeline to a COVID vaccine for kids

Nicole Karlis
Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef outside Cairns Australia during a mass bleaching event, thought to have been caused by heat stress due to warmer water temperatures as a result of global climate change. (Getty Images/Brett Monroe Garner)

"Climate change" polarizes conservatives

Kate Yoder - Grist
Doing a COVID test in full PPE wear at a senior's home (Getty Images)

Fact check on CDC PCR test

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
Gossiping Malamutes (Getty Images)

Your dog has a secret life

Matthew Rozsa
Kashmiri women journalists hold placards as they protest against the continued communication blockade by the Indian authorities after the revocation of special status of Kashmir on Oct. 3, 2019 in Srinagar. (Yawar Nazir/Getty Images)

Impact of internet shutdowns in India

Shonottra Kumar, Sumeysh Srivastava - Undark
Snake Wines & Liquors (Getty Images/Andy Krakovski)

The false promise of snake wine

Dawn Starin - Geographical
Excessive Drinking (Getty Images/Katarzyna Bialasiewicz)

The epidemic of diseases of despair

Matthew Rozsa
Medicine pills are seen with Pfizer logo displayed on a screen in the background (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Pfizer wants to legalize "kickbacks"

Jay Hancock - KFF Health News
Dr. Walter Freeman performs a lobotomy using an instrument like an ice pick which he invented for the procedure. Inserting the instrument under the upper eyelid of the patient, Dr. Freeman cuts nerve connections in the front part of the brain. (Getty Images/Bettmann Contributor)

Book review: When scientists break bad

Elizabeth Svoboda - Undark
People commuting in the city wearing face masks (Getty Images/Luis Alvarez)

How does the pandemic end now?

Nicole Karlis
Scary Doctor (Getty Images/Doughberry)

Beware the medical-industrial complex

Matthew Rozsa
Ship with thick black sooty exhaust (Getty Images)

The true cost of shipping junk

Maria Gallucci - Grist
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Drew Anthony Smith/Getty Images)

Texas now has more COVID deaths than NY

Brad Reed - Raw Story
Digital generated image of COVID-19 cells organized into triangle shape and made delta sign. (GEtty Images/Andriy Onufriyenko)

The curious Provincetown COVID outbreak

Matthew Rozsa
Close up man head of hair loss (Getty Images/Chanakon Laorob)

Why, where and how we go bald

Matthew Rozsa
Coronavirus cell with DNA strands and white blood cells (Getty Images)

CDC fears the worst from delta: report

Matthew Rozsa
Atlantic Salmons in a river (Getty Images)

How Crispr could protect wild salmon

Lisa Abend - Undark
A tree stump is engulfed in flames in the Bravo Bravo section of the Bootleg Fire on July 21, 2021 in the Fremont National Forest of Oregon. The Bootleg Fire, which started on July 6th near Beatty, Oregon, has burned over 395,000 acres and is currently 38% contained. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)

Good wildfire news?

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
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