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Science & Health (page 189)

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

United States debate (Getty Images)

This is your brain on partisan politics

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/Salon)

Hugs are back! But do you even want one?

Nicole Karlis
Repeated vials and syringes with covid-19 vaccine (Getty Images)

Beer, doughnuts and a $1 million lottery

Isabelle Brocas - The Conversation
My Octopus Teacher (Netflix)

Can an octopus have a soul?

Matthew Rozsa
Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters Building in Washington DC (Getty Images)

For the EPA, a moment of reckoning

Beth Clevenger - MIT Press Reader
Mother suffers from headache because of noise of little children (Getty Images)

"Perfect" parenting is a trap

Gail Cornwall
Young woman looking nauseous with hand over mouth (Getty Images)

What is food poisoning anyway?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Handicapped mother with child (Getty Images)

Physically disabled parents and COVID

Izz Scott LaMagdeleine - Undark
(Shutterstock/DedMityay)

The fuzzy line between life and death

Lola Butcher - Undark
Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914), French scholar, developed the criminal anthropometry. Self-portrait ID following his own methods made on August 7 1912, at the age of 59. (adoc-photos/Corbis via Getty Images)

The troubling pursuit of human metrics

Jessica Helfand - MIT Press Reader
Exxon Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lee Raymond (C) and Vice Chairman Lucio Noto, circa 01 December, 1999. (HENNY RAY ABRAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

Manufacturing climate change denialism

Andreas Malm, The Zetkin Collective
Descartes' (1596-1650) idea of vision, [1692]. The passage of nervous impulses from the eye to the pineal gland and so to the muscles. From Rene Descartes' Opera Philosophica (Tractatus de homine), 1692. (Oxford Science Archive/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The mysteries of the pineal gland

Matthew Rozsa
Empty pews and stained glass windows in church (Getty Images/ Monashee Frantz)

Church attendance linked to COVID rates?

Ryan Burge - The Conversation
Close up of a man refusing to wear his protective face mask. (Getty Images)

Vaccinated? Don't throw out the mask yet

Nicole Karlis
Humpback Whale parent and calf (Getty Images)

Whales face new and emerging threats

John R. Platt - The Revelator
David Taylor, who has muscular dystrophy, relies on a ventilator to live. During the power outages across Texas in February, he had to be transported to a hospital before his ventilator’s backup battery ran out. (Rodger Mallison / Undark)

Medical devices and power outages

Charlotte Huff - Undark
After 17-years living below ground, billions of cicadas belonging to Brood X are beginning to emerge across much of the eastern United States. The cicadas shed their larval skin, spread their wings, and fly out to mate, making a tremendous noise in the process. (Richard Ellis/Getty Images)

Get ready for billions of bugs

Matthew Rozsa
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)

Biden boasts about senior vax rates

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
Two fists with man's and woman's face are collide with each other on coronavirus background (Getty Images)

My family won't get vaccinated

Nicole Karlis
Red banana covered with medical protective mask (Getty Images)

COVID connected to erectile dysfunction

Matthew Rozsa
Rising sea levels, conceptual (Getty Images)

Antarctic ice melt will raise sea levels

Matthew Rozsa
A healthcare worker takes a nasal swab sample from a resident to test for COVID-19 at The Abyssinian Baptist Church in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on May 13, 2020. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

AI assists pooled COVID-19 testing

Jeremy Hsu - Undark
Close up of young woman getting online medical help and advice during videocall with doctor (Getty Images)

The doctor is in, but scared to see you

Mikkael Sekeres - MIT Press Reader
Shark GPS (Illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Want to confuse a shark? Use a magnet

Matthew Rozsa
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