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Science & Health (page 32)

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

Plate from 'The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle', published in London, 1839-1843, and edited by the British originator of evolutionary theory Charles Darwin (1809-1882). (SSPL/Getty Images)

The enduring mystery of Darwin’s warrah

Nikolas Kozloff
Bird Flu Infected Animals: Cow, Chicken, Cat and Mouse (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The biggest mysteries about bird flu

Troy Farah, Nicole Karlis
Child pouring water on himself on a hot day (Getty Images/AlesVeluscek)

Climate change damages children's brains

Matthew Rozsa
Transgender male patient being examined in hospital (Getty Images/rparobe)

Fighting cancer risks in LGBTQ health

Rae Hodge
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Former US Secretary of State and former Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry speaks during a session at CERAWeek by S&P Global Thursday, March 21, 2024 at Hilton Americas-Houston in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

John Kerry on climate change and Trump

Matthew Rozsa
3D illustration of double bed hovering in air and with white cloud above. ((OsakaWayne Studios / Getty Images))

A brain surgeon explains why we dream

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Big Bang, conceptual image (Getty Images/ALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Did alien life form after the Big Bang?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Flooded streets in Fort Myers, Florida, after 24 hours of continuous rain, June 13. (Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Epic Fla. rain: Yep, it's climate change

Matthew Rozsa
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a news conference on the Right to Contraception Act outside the U.S. Capitol on June 5, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

A threat to contraception remains

Nicole Karlis
Supreme Court of the United States | Mifepristone (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

SCOTUS rejects abortion drug challenge

Nicole Karlis
False color image of Antarctic ozone hole, 30 November 1992. NASA photograph. ((Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images))

Ozone protection efforts are working

Matthew Rozsa
Cultivated Tiehm's buckwheat is seen at Ioneer's Tiehm's buckwheat conservation greenhouse on May 8, 2024 in Gardnerville, Nevada. Tiehm's buckwheat, a rare and endangered wildflower endemic to the Silver Peak Range in Esmeralda County, Nevada grows beside Rhyolite Ridge, the site of a proposed lithium mine. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

A lithium mine versus a rare flower

Matthew Rozsa
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A tree trunk is lies on a now dry section of the El Guavio Water Reservoir on April 18, 2024 in Gachalá, Colombia. Water reservoirs around Colombia are facing low levels due to a major drought caused by El Niño-Southern Oscillation. (Diego Cuevas/Getty Images)

Will La Niña cool us down? Probably not

Matthew Rozsa
Out-Of-State Abortion Travel (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

When abortion travel turns to nightmare

Nicole Karlis
Scientist planting seedlings on a Mars base (Getty Images/EvgeniyShkolenko)

Agriculture trick for Mars matters here

Ayurella Horn-Muller - Grist
Drug users prepare cocaine before injecting, inside of a Safe Consumption van set up by Peter Krykant on September 25, 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

The drugs were never the point

Niko Vorobyov
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Sunrise Movement protesters gather near VP Harris' Brentwood home calling on her to urge President Biden to declare a climate emergency on Sunday, April 14, 2024. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Climate activists turn up the heat

Matthew Rozsa
A man pushes a bycicle along as he walks amid building rubble in the devastated area around Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital on April 3, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. (AFP/Getty Images)

Israel's war on Gaza destroying climate

Edward Carver - Common Dreams
Cat watching a small bird (Getty Images/zmijak)

Are house cats safe from bird flu?

Nicole Karlis
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 during NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test on June 05, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Boeing Starliner averts disaster

Rae Hodge
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Two little boys covered in mud standing in a mud hole and laughing. (Getty Images/Andreas Kuehn)

Patriarchy harms boys and men, too

Mary Elizabeth Williams
American astronaut William Anders, of NASA's Apollo 8 mission, during a panel interview held at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois, April 5, 2018. (J.B. Spector/Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago/Getty Images)

Apollo 8 astronaut dies in plane crash

Kelly McClure
A woman demonstrates what a patient would experience in a therapy room at Field Trip, a psychedelic therapy clinic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on August 28, 2020. (COLE BURSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

Do psychedelics require a therapist?

Rich Haridy
Abortion rights demonstrators march near the State Capitol in Austin, Texas, June 25, 2022. (SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images)

Texas abortion exceptions still muddled

Nicole Karlis
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