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

A parent and child tell each other stories inside a cosy tent lit up in a dark room of their home (Getty Images)

The scientific case for literature

Erik Hoel
Twitter app seen displayed on a smartphone with the Twitter logo in the background (Illustration by Thiago Prudêncio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Studying what makes tweets go viral

Matthew Rozsa
Two Pterosaurs and a chimpanzee (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Meet the ancient "monkeydactyl"

Matthew Rozsa
Indigenous groups and opponents of the Enbridge Energy Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project protest its construction across northern Minnesota. The proposed route for Line 3 crosses 227 lakes and rivers, including the Mississippi River and rivers that feed directly into Lake Superior. (Michael Siluk/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Wall Street's new greenwashing

Alec Connon
Pack of Gray Wolves (Getty Images)

How the gray wolf survived the Ice Age

Nicole Karlis
Digital generated image of circular pattern made out of Syringes with COVID-19 vaccine targeting into coronavirus cell (Getty Images)

Can you get COVID-19 after vaccination?

Matthew Rozsa
Aerial view of a military building, The Pentagon, Washington DC, USA (Getty Images)

Making sense of a viral military

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
Long-Tailed Macaques family (Getty Images)

The bioethics of human-monkey embryos

Matthew Rozsa
A view of high voltage transmission towers on February 21, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Millions of Texans lost their power when winter storm Uri hit the state and knocked out coal, natural gas and nuclear plants that were unprepared for the freezing temperatures brought on by the storm. Wind turbines that provide an estimated 24 percent of energy to the state became inoperable when they froze. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Another power crisis in Texas?

Erin Douglas, Mitchell Ferman - The Texas Tribune
A passenger wearing a mask prepares to board a flight departing the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Getty Images)

Airports step up mental health services

Katja Ridderbusch - KFF Health News
Woman with face mask getting vaccinated (Getty Images)

Odd periods: A new vaccine side effect

Nicole Karlis
Teenage girl looking through window (Getty Images)

COVID's heavy toll on teens

Melinda Wenner Moyer - Undark
People in face masks waiting in line for vaccination (Getty Images)

The J&J vaccine pause, explained

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
Great Sphinx of Giza and Pyramid of Khafre (Getty Images)

An "Egyptian Pompeii" is discovered

Matthew Rozsa
Old man and young man talking in the park, wearing masks (Getty Images)

My dad's roommate won't get vaccinated

Nicole Karlis
Two pteranodons flying (Getty Images/estt)

Largest flying animal gets a bone scan

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/kosmos111)

GMO mosquitoes to be released in Keys

Taylor White - Undark
Young girl is sitting and taking vaccine shot to her shoulder, with her mother who is encouraging her, and doctor who is giving her vaccine. (Getty Images)

The gender vaccine gap

Laura Ungar - KFF Health News
Flames rise near homes during the Blue Ridge Fire on October 27, 2020 in Chino Hills, California. Strong Santa Ana Winds gusting to more than 90 miles per hour have driven the Blue Ridge Fire and Silverado Fire across thousands of acres, grounding firefighting aircraft, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee, and gravely injuring two firefighters. More than 8,200 wildfires have burned across a record 4 million-plus acres so far this year, more than double the previous record. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Wildfire researchers are scared for 2021

Nicole Karlis
(Getty Images)

How high? Cannabis labels are a mess

Nicole Karlis
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the State Dining Room of the White House on March 15, 2021 in Washington, DC. The administration announced on Monday that Gene Sperling, a former top economic official in the last two Democratic presidential administrations, will oversee the rollout of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus package that Biden signed into law last week. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

ALEC’s plan to fight Biden on climate

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
Illustration of alien plants on a hospitable foreign planet (Getty Images)

A zoologist imagines alien life

Emily Cataneo - Undark
A patient with the COVID-19 breaths in oxygen in the COVID-19 ward at Khayelitsha Hospital, about 35km from the centre of Cape Town, on December 29, 2020. (RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images)

Some patients suffer from "long COVID"

Lydia Zuraw - KFF Health News
(Getty/vm)

COVID-19's toll on Black children

Nicole Karlis
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