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Science & Health (page 188)

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

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

Big Oil is awash in rainbows for Pride

Kate Yoder - Grist
Black Hole (Getty Images)

Is this what dark matter is?

Nicole Karlis
Health officials carry a dead body of coronavirus (Covid-19) victim on a stretcher to container morgues by the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Americans face a "grief pandemic"

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
Anthony Fauci | COVID-19 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Doctors become unwilling celebrities

Matthew Rozsa
Shipping containers are unloaded at the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach, California on May 14, 2019. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)

Container ship accidents on the rise

Tim Lydon - The Revelator
Boxes containing the first shipments of the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are unloaded from air shipping containers at UPS Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky. Each box contains dry ice to keep the temperature at minus 70 Celsius and contains a GPS tracker. (Michael Clevenger - Pool/Getty Images)

5 COVID-19 vaccine myths, debunked

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
(Getty/stevanovicigor)

Weight stigma occurs around the world

Rebecca Puhl - The Conversation
This bison calf, standing in the doorway of a barn on the Blackfeet Reservation, is a symbol of hope for the Blackfoot people. (Louise Johns / Undark)

Bringing bison back to the Great Plains

Louise Johns - Undark
The wildfire spreads on August 19, 2020 in San Mateo, California. (Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images)

How many has climate change killed?

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
While it makes for a colorful analogy, comparing the brain to a muscle is inaccurate and misleading.

The neurological reason you say "um"

Adriel John Orena - Massive Science
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