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Science & Health (page 4)

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

Human hand touching robotic hand. (Getty Images / Andriy Onufriyenko)

AI liberation could be our best hope

Topher McDougal
Nadir view of the Martian South Pole. (Getty Images / Stocktrek Images)

Did it once snow on Mars?

Elizabeth Howell
(Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / SCIEPRO / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Shutter2U)

"De-extincting" species is a distraction

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Windmills in Eastern Oregon. (Getty Images / zaft)

Northwest's lagging green energy goals

Tony Schick, Monica Samayoa - ProPublica
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Check up visit in doctor's office (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

The risks of "diagnosis creep"

Lola Butcher - Undark
Insect design integrated with microchip. (Getty Images / Chayanan)

Cyborg bugs are here: Are they ethical?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
A Pacific giant octopus crawls over a colorful anemone filled bottom. (Getty Images / Mauricio Handler)

Maybe don't anthropomorphize octopuses

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A framed vulture surrounded by beautiful flowers (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / milanosss / 500px / Eduardo R / Tomekbudujedomek / Sergey Ryumin)

Your mom's so ugly

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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Young woman with her son protesting in the street. (Getty Images / FG Trade)

The moms fighting for climate justice

Elizabeth Hlavinka
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. (REBECCA DROKE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

EPA all but stops policing environment

Tom Perkins - Grist
Marble Roman bust with a surgical mask over its face. (Getty Images / OsakaWayne Studios)

Colonialism is at the root of pandemics

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Members of the DEA in White Plains, New York on April 24, 2021. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

DEA abandoning body cam program

Mario Ariza - ProPublica
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Baby boy having brain tested, Seattle, Washington. (Getty Images / Aaron MCcoy)

What's it like to be a baby?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A mixture of steam and pollutants are emitted from the Naughton coal-fired power plant November 22, 2022 in Kemmerer, Wyoming. (Natalie Behring/Getty Images)

Energy data latest Trump and DOGE victim

Peter Elkind - ProPublica
Row of medical vials and syringe. (A. Martin UW Photography / Getty Images)

Trump betting on old vaccine tech

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
Close-Up Of Human Eye. (Getty Images / Adriana Duduleanu)

The surgery to forever change eye color

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Woman holding birth control pills (Getty Images/Isabel Pavia)

Trump plays favorites with Title X funds

Rachana Pradhan - KFF Health News
Woman sleeping peacefully in bed, wearing a smart watch to track her sleep patterns. (Getty Images / whitebalance.space)

When sleep trackers make sleep worse

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Climate change, conceptual illustration. (Getty Images / MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Chaos is the essence of climate change

Gernot Wagner
A close-up of a spoon filled with colorful, loop-shaped cereal is surrounded by more vibrant cereal pieces. (Getty Images / Stefania Pelfini, La Waziya Photography)

Removing food dyes is not a panacea

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Bird Flu (Getty Images/Peter Garrard Beck)

Bird flu isn't as silent as we think

Carlyn Zwarenstein
9/30/1965 - Tan Son Nhut, South Vietnam: A flight of four United States Air Force Ranch Hand C-123s spray a Viet Cong jungle position near here with a defoliating liquid. The four specially equipped aircraft cover a swath of more than 1,000 feet wide on each pass over the dense jungle. (Getty Images / Bettmann)

Vietnam still bears the scars of war

Pamela McElwee - The Conversation
A man who did not want to be identified holds up a sign while standing along Broadway as he joins hundreds of others during a large rally and protest outside of NOAA in Boulder, Colorado on March 3, 2025. (Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Trump proposal may gut climate modeling

Abrahm Lustgarten - ProPublica
Cochliomyia hominivorax, the New World screwworm fly, or screwworm for short, is a species of parasitic fly that is well known for the way in which its larvae (maggots) eat the living tissue. (Getty Images / Ramdan Fatoni)

The US could get screwed on screwworm

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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