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Science & Health (page 186)

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

Mammoth Lakes is a town in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. It's known for the Mammoth Mountain and June Mountain ski areas and nearby trails.Mammoth Lakes is a town in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. It's known for the Mammoth Mountain and June Mountain ski areas and nearby trails. ( iStock / Getty Images)

Wildfire anxiety is on the rise

Astra Lincoln - Undark
Four birds sitting on a branch (iStock-Getty Images/jeffysurianto)

Scientists can read birds' minds

Matthew Rozsa
Young woman getting online medical help and advice during video-call with doctor (iStock/Getty Images)

Telehealth abortions are here to stay

Kylie Cheung
(Getty Images)

How to save the California coast

Alexandria Herr - Grist
Doctor in protective gloves & workwear filling injection syringe with COVID-19 vaccine (Getty Images)

Should kids get the COVID vaccine?

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
Global Women's Strike together with women's rights organisations stage a protest | Coronavirus COVID-19 Spores (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty ImagesWiktor Szymanowicz/ BlackJack3D)

Post-COVID, workers feel more empowered

Matthew Rozsa
Diver swims with a whale (Getty Images/Orla)

Can a human really be eaten by a whale?

Nicole Karlis
Magnetic Vaccine concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Andrey Popov/Robin Olimb)

The "magnetic vaccine" conspiracy theory

Nicole Karlis
Father and toddler son making paper plane at home (Getty Images)

How COVID shapes childhood development

Leah Gullet - KFF Health News
(Getty Images/istockphoto)

Bots click millions of ads — for climate

Kate Yoder - Grist
Overweight fat couple wrapped with measure tape (Getty Images/Vadym Petrochenko)

The curious science of liposuction

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/recep-bg)

Snow days? Today's kids get heat days

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
Close up of a man refusing to wear his protective face mask. (Getty Images)

Bernard J. Wolfson
A QAnon supporter holds a sign during a protest at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem on May 2, 2020. (Getty Images)

The rhetoric of cults is all around us

Nicole Karlis
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Reforming how military handles assault

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
A volcano named Sapas Mons dominates this computer-generated view of the surface of Venus. (NASA/JP)

NASA returns to Venus

Paul K. Byrne - The Conversation
Spider in web in tree branches (Getty Images)

How spider silk could save humanity

Matthew Rozsa
Tablets, pack of medicine, medicine bottles, syringes and a face mask on a blue background (Getty Images)

The pandemic-opioid vortex

Matthew Rozsa
Click Beetle (Getty Images)

The physics behind a click beetle's jump

Adam Fortais - Massive Science
The waters of Lake Michigan crashes over the pedestrian walk as fog rolls through the Chicago skyline in Chicago, Illinois. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

It's raining PFAS in the Great Lakes

Jena Brooker - Grist
Fractals of Romanesco broccoli and fern leaves (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

This is your brain on nature

Thomas Nail
A man uses heroin under a bridge where he lives with other addicts in the Kensington section of Philadelphia which has become a hub for heroin use on January 24, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Getty/Spencer Platt)

83% Americans think war on drugs failed

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
An empty classroom (Getty/ martinedoucet)

Controversy surrounds air purifiers

Christina Jewett, Lauren Weber - KFF Health News
Medical Billing (Getty Images)

Hospitals kept suing patients over debt

Jenny Deam - ProPublica
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