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Science & Health (page 26)

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

Most of the seafloor explored during Dive 07 of the 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration was covered with these manganese nodules, the subject of the Deep Sea Ventures pilot test nearly five decades ago. (Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration.)

Mining deep sea despite unknowns

Gautama Mehta - Grist
MONTPELIER, VT - JULY, 11: Flooding in downtown Montpelier, Vermont on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. Vermont has been under a State of Emergency since Sunday evening as heavy rains continued through Tuesday morning causing flooding across the state. ((Photo by John Tully for The Washington Post via Getty Images))

Prosecute Big Oil, federal govt urged

Matthew Rozsa
Melancholic long-hair cat lying (Getty Images/Rafa Elias)

Cats seem to grieve deaths of other pets

Matthew Rozsa
Health workers monitor Mpox patients at the Mpox treatment centre of the Nyiragongo general reference hospital, north of the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on August 16, 2024. (GUERCHOM NDEBO / Contributor (Getty Images))

Mpox outbreak is a health equity problem

Nicole Karlis
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DNA molecule (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Editing fetal genomes is on the horizon

Julia Brown - The Conversation
Signage outside the Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services Center in St. Louis, Missouri. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

The campaign to gut Planned Parenthood

Rachana Pradhan - KFF Health News
Obstetrician examining pregnant woman in hospital (Getty Images/Halfpoint Images)

Abortion bans change care in blue states

Nicole Karlis
A registered nurse prepares to administer an intradermal monkeypox vaccine to a person at a vaccination site setup in Tropical Park by Miami-Dade County and Nomi Health on August 15, 2022 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Mpox outbreak in Africa was neglected

Wolfgang Preiser, Cheryl Baxter, Jean Nachega - The Conversation
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Engineer at recycling center (Getty Images/Pramote Polyamate)

When “recyclable” isn't truly recyclable

Lisa Song - ProPublica
Choices (Getty Images/kibrick)

Don’t ask AI life-and-death decisions

Samantha Kleinberg - Undark
Ontocetus posti (Courtesy of Jaime Bran)

New species of ancient walrus discovered

Matthew Rozsa
Pregnant woman in a medical exam room looking at her ultrasound pictures (Getty Images/adamkaz)

Abortion exceptions are a "farce"

Nicole Karlis
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Martian landscape with lakes, water (Getty Images/gremlin)

Water on Mars found buried deep

Matthew Rozsa
Friends running together in a park (Getty Images/Thomas Barwick)

Why exercising to lose weight backfires

Matthew Rozsa
A copper IUD, intrauterine device (VALENTINE CHAPUIS/AFP via Getty Images)

IUD update is progress for female pain

Nicole Karlis
Hospital emergency room entrance sign (Getty Images/Douglas Sacha)

Pregnant women being denied ER care

Nicole Karlis
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Long-billed Vulture (Gyps indicus) at Bandhavgarh National park, Madhya Pradesh, India (Getty Images/ePhotocorp)

Vulture deaths linked to human deaths

Matthew Rozsa
Healthy fresh blooming red rose among a row of other dried dead roses (Getty Images/enviromantic)

How "hopeful skeptics" outsmart Doomers

Rae Hodge
Bronze medalist Noah Lyles of Team United States reacts after competing in the Men's 200m Final on day thirteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on August 08, 2024 in Paris, France. (Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

Noah Lyles underscores our COVID denial

Troy Farah
An overview shows Italy's Nicolo Martinenghi (L) celebrating with Britain's Adam Peaty (R) after winning the final of the men's 100m breaststroke swimming event during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Paris La Defense Arena in Nanterre, west of Paris, on July 28, 2024. (FRANCOIS-XAVIER MARIT/AFP via Getty Images)

Cupping therapy and Olympic athletes

Nicole Karlis
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The Perseid meteor shower is seen over the Ulanbum grassland in Chifeng city, Inner Mongolia, China, August 14, 2023. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Perseid meteor shower peaks this weekend

Griffin Eckstein
A .22 pistol firing at a target. (Getty Images/Jesse Bacon)

Second thoughts about gunshot detectors

Rod McCullom - Undark
Minnesota DFL(Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party) candidate for governor Tim Walz rallied supporters as he stood with his wife Gwen, son Gus, and daughter Hope, Saturday morning, June 2, 2018 during the DFL State Convention at the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, Minn. (Anthony Souffle/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Why Tim Walz is the real family man

Nicole Karlis
New Orleans water meter (Photos.com/Getty Images )

Balloon causes New Orleans boil advisory

Griffin Eckstein
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