Help keep Salon independent

Science & Health (page 202)

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

Families queue up in front of the entrance to the Opel Zoo before its reopening. The extensive measures to protect against infection with the corona virus have been relaxed somewhat in Hesse. On the first opening day after the lockdown, the rush was great. (Arne Dedert/picture alliance via Getty Images)

GOP govs are rolling back restrictions

Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

Scientific integrity at a crossroads

Augusta Wilson - Undark
Coronavirus and blood cells (Getty Images)

How COVID deranges the immune system

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
No Leg Room On Airplane (Getty Images)

There's no "right to recline"

Michael Heller, James Salzman
Advertisement:
A highway worker tries to shield himself while walking to his truck in Lubbock, Texas. (John Weast/Getty Images)

Gene makes some resilient to cold temps

Victoria Wyckelsma, Peter John Houweling - The Conversation
Time lost in the COVID-19 pandemic year (Getty Images)

A history of how pandemics change us

Matthew Rozsa
Rules of Estrangement by Joshua Coleman (Photo illustration by Salon/Terry Riggins/Harmony)

When adult children become estranged

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A group of demonstrators display signs during a pro-life rally outside the Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Center (Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images)

States aim to chip away at Roe v. Wade

Justin Franz - KFF Health News
Advertisement:
Second-grade pupils wear face masks as they attend school lessons (INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)

Are schools safe? Teachers are terrified

Bob Hennelly
(Drew Angerer/Getty Images))

Is it time to control cigarette-makers?

Joshua M. Pearce - The Conversation
Pink symmetrical image of portrait sculpture of Giuliano de' Medici created by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 16 century (Getty Images)

Why narcissism can be contagious

Matthew Rozsa
A blister pack of Ketamine lozenges at the psychedelic therapy clinic | Girl with recreation drug on tongue (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

When psychedelic drugs get medicalized

Jonathan Dickinson, Dimitri Mugianis
Advertisement:
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, left, listens as State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs speaks about the state's continued efforts in dealing with COVID-19 (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi lifts COVID restrictions

Adam Mahoney - Grist
A photo taken on February 12, 2021 shows a box of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine at the university hospital, at the start of the inoculation with the AstraZeneca vaccine at the hospital, in Halle/Saale, eastern Germany. (JENS SCHLUETER/AFP via Getty Images)

Rural Americans hurting for vaccines

Markian Hawryluk - KFF Health News
A healthcare worker receives a dose of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine (Wong Fok Loy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"Vaccine guilt" is a real thing

Nicole Karlis
Antique Illustration, "Scene during the Lower Oolite Period (Ichthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, a Marsupial, etc)" (Getty Images)

Primates coexisted with dinosaurs: study

Matthew Rozsa
Advertisement:
Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Stimulus bill penalizes single parents

Nicole Karlis
Universe, planets and lots of stars (Getty Images)

A new way of searching for alien life

Cody Fenwick - Alternet
A man waves a QAnon conspiracy flag at a protest of coronavirus skeptics, right-wing extremists and others angry over coronavirus-related restrictions and government policy on August 29, 2020 (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Can cult studies offer help with QAnon?

Michael Schulson - Undark
Donald Trump, "light worker" extraordinaire (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why mystics say Trump is a "lightworker"

Nicole Karlis
Advertisement:
People line up for COVID-19 vaccinations at Nassau Community College on January 10, 2021 in Garden City, New York. Nassau County now has two vaccine centers as another 3.2 million New Yorkers become eligible for the vaccine (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

Inequality and the vaccination system

Maryam Jameel, Caroline Chen - ProPublica
Earth cross section in space view (Getty Images)

Earth gets a new layer

Matthew Rozsa
Greg Abbott (Reuters/Brendan McDermid/Shutterstock/Photo montage by Salon)

Texas school boards don't require masks

Aliyya Swaby - The Texas Tribune
Mink look out from their cage at the farm of Henrik Nordgaard Hansen and Ann-Mona Kulsoe Larsen as they have to kill off their herd, which consists of 3000 mother mink and their cubs on their farm near Naestved, Denmark, on November 6, 2020 (MADS CLAUS RASMUSSEN/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)

Mink and coronavirus: A love story

Matthew Rozsa
« Previous
Page: 202
Next »
Advertisement: