Help keep Salon independent

Science & Health (page 20)

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

Planet Earth and the Moon (Getty Images/forplayday)

Earth gets temporary second moon

Matthew Rozsa
A member of the U.S. Capitol Police carries a Congressional Gold Medal for Katherine Johnson during a ceremony on Capitol Hill on September 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to family members of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden, as well as a medal to all the "women mathematicians, engineers, and 'human computers' in the U.S space program from the 1930s to the 1970s," often referred to as the "hidden figures" of the space race. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Congress honors NASA's Hidden Figures

Griffin Eckstein
A Solar Thermal Power Station in the Nevada Desert (Getty Images/ferrantraite)

Will solar panels destroy the desert?

Matthew Rozsa
'Before' image of landslide site taken on Aug. 12, 2023 (Søren Rysgaard)

How a landslide rang Earth like a gong

Rae Hodge
IV drip, healthcare and medicine with doctor and patient in hospital (Getty Images/Jacob Wackerhausen)

Superbugs predicted to kill 39 million

Rae Hodge
Candi Miller with her husband, Alex Cardenas; son Christian; and daughter Turiya, whom she named after her sister. (Courtesy of Turiya Tomlin-Randall)

Death from Georgia's abortion ban fears

Kavitha Surana - ProPublica
This artist's concept shows a black hole with an accretion disk - a flat structure of material orbiting the black hole - and a jet of hot gas, called plasma. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Black hole "starving" galaxy to death

Matthew Rozsa
A species of semi-aquatic lizard produces a special bubble over its nostrils to breathe underwater. (Lindsey Swierk)

How this lizard learned to "scuba dive"

Matthew Rozsa
The gravesite of Amber Thurman, at Rose Garden Cemetary in McDonough, Georgia on August, 13th 2024. (Photo courtesy of Nydia Blas / ProPublica)

Abortion bans lead to mother's death

Kavitha Surana - ProPublica
An undated photo shows tourist submersible belongs to OceanGate begins to descent at a sea. Search and rescue operations continue by US Coast Guard in Boston after a tourist submarine bound for the Titanic's wreckage site went missing off the southeastern coast of Canada. (Ocean Gate / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Titan sub implosion hearings begin

Rae Hodge
People attend the burial of Colombian 14-year-old environmental activist Breiner David Cucuname, who was shot dead during a rural security patrol on January 14, 2022, in the indigenous community of Las Delicias, Buenos Aires municipality, in the Colombian southwestern Cauca Department, on January 17 , 2022. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Nearly 200 killed protecting environment

Taylar Dawn Stagner - Grist
Parents and baby girl in bedroom, man holding head (Getty Images/Noel Hendrickson)

Maybe it’s time to stop blaming parents

Allison Carmen
Doctor having a consultation with her patient (Getty Images/LaylaBird)

Eugenics in the egg donation industry

Matthew Rozsa
Neanderthal Man in front of his cave (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Thorin the Neanderthal's genes analyzed

Matthew Rozsa
Multiple exposure, side view of a woman (Getty Images/Jonathan Knowles)

Why people today identify as "empaths"

Nicole Karlis
Dolphin in aquarium (Getty Images/vdorse)

Gaze and the evolution of empathy

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris participates in a discussion with former Trump-Pence administration official Olivia Troye (not seen) and Amanda Stratton (not seen) in Portage, Michigan, United States on July 17, 2024. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Harris making climate action patriotic

Kate Yoder - Grist
A walking patron stops to watch a screen displaying the US Presidential debate between Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at The Admiral in Washington, DC, on September 10, 2024. (ALLISON BAILEY/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate scientists react to the debate

Matthew Rozsa
This aerial picture shows the collapsed Phong Chau bridge over the Red River in Phu Tho province on September 9, 2024, after Super Typhoon Yagi hit northern Vietnam. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Typhoon Yagi kills 226 people

Matthew Rozsa
Couple sitting on sofa in living room with snacks and soda, watching TV news about medicine, new drugs and treatment (Getty Images/EvgeniyShkolenko)

Why TV drug ads can be misleading

Elisabeth Rosenthal - KFF Health News
Medical MRI Scan (Getty Images/da-kuk)

Indigenous people overlooked on cancer

Matthew Rozsa
Child applying sunscreen on a beach (Getty Images/Catherine Falls Commercial)

Chemicals in skin products impact kids

Matthew Rozsa
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, debates Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, for the first time during the presidential election campaign at The National Constitution Center on September 10, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Behind Trump’s “execute the babies” lie

Nicole Karlis
Pregnant woman at her doctor appointment prenatal care (Getty Images/Adene Sanchez)

Care post-Roe "dangerously warped"

Nicole Karlis
« Previous
Page: 20
Next »
Advertisement: