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Science & Health (page 187)

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

Medical students watching a body dissection, at the Women's College Hospital, Philadelphia. (Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Revisiting the 1869 "She Doctor" panic

Olivia Campbell - Undark
Anti-vaccine activists hold signs and chant in front of the Massachusetts State House against Governor Charlie Baker's mandate that all Massachusetts school students enrolled in child care, pre-school, K-12, and post-secondary institutions must receive the flu vaccine this year on August 30, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

Anti-vaxxers are co-opting Juneteenth

Nicole Karlis
A wild jaguar (Getty Images)

New doc stares down jaguar poachers

Matthew Rozsa
Tick on a leaf (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Why ticks are out of control this year

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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Typing code on a laptop computer (Getty Images)

The perils of proprietary health care AI

Vishal Khetpal, Nishant R. Shah - Undark
Nurse Practitioner Terri Welch administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to a patient at the Haxby and Wigginton Group Medical Practice in Haxby, northern England on December 22, 2020. (LINDSEY PARNABY/AFP via Getty Images)

Now we wait for boosters

Nicole Karlis
Faucet with Water Drip (Getty Images)

The long shadow of lead contamination

Jenny Bower - Undark
Small children with face mask back to school (Getty Images)

My COVID-19 teaching year

Belle Chesler - TomDispatch.com
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Unwell Woman by Elinor Cleghorn (Photo illustration by Salon/Lara Downie/Dutton)

Women's pain "isn't taken seriously"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Planet Venus (Albert Klein/Getty Images)

Why NASA just greenlit two Venus probes

Nicole Karlis
Anti-Vaccine and Anti-Lockdown protesters (David Cliff/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Anti-vaxxer and proud of it: poll

Matthew Rozsa
A burned residence smolders during the Bear fire, part of the North Lightning Complex fires, in unincorporated Butte County, California on September 09, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Western fires are burning higher

Mojtaba Sadegh, John Abatzoglou, Mohammad Reza Alizadeh - The Conversation
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US President Joe Biden tours the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 19, 2021. (ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images)

Critics call out Biden's vaccine plan

Kenny Stancil - Common Dreams
Pensive woman in bed (Getty/A75)

Post-COVID, introverts resolve to change

Nicole Karlis
This photo taken on March 5, 2020 shows nurses preparing to deliver yoghurt to patients at a temporary hospital set up for COVID-19 coronavirus patients in a sports stadium in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province. - China reported 30 more deaths from the new coronavirus outbreak on March 6, with fresh infections rising for a second straight day and 16 new cases imported from overseas. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Pressure mounts on China for "lab leak"

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
Scientist pipetting a virus onto a petri dish (Getty Images)

Lab leak theory "can't be ruled out"

Matthew Rozsa
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Mother breastfeeding baby in living room (Getty Images)

Big Tech is coming for your breast milk

Julia Pelly
(Getty Images)

Oil companies all-in on petrochemicals

Constance B. Bailey - The Conversation
Different ways of thinking processing (Getty Images)

Is autism just a "language" difference?

Matthew Rozsa
Police Vehicles (Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

New response strategies for crisis calls

Larry Buhl - Capital & Main
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Ocean Current (Getty Images)

The current that makes Earth habitable

Matthew Rozsa
Prescription medication is strewn about, with pill bottles in the deep background. (Getty Images)

I fled my anxiety through Xanax

Matthew Rozsa
Communications satellite orbiting Earth (Getty Images)

Space pollution is a big problem

Timiebi Aganaba - The Conversation
A senior patient using a mask looking through the window at the hospital (Getty Images)

How COVID impacted Alzheimer’s patients

Burcin Ikiz - Massive Science
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