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Science & Health (page 46)

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

Jenny Shields poses for a photo with her CPAP machine, which was recalled for safety reasons, at her home in Wilmington, Delaware on June 3, 2022. (Rachel Wisniewski/For the Washington Post)

Philips to stop selling apnea machines

Debbie Cenziper, Michael D. Sallah - ProPublica
Pinyon Plain uranium mine, which is located near the Grand Canyon. (Photo courtesy of Taylor McKinnon/Center for Biological Diversity)

Advocates demand halt to uranium mine

Matthew Rozsa
Newborn great white shark. (Carlos Gauna/The Malibu Artist)

Newborn shark pup filmed for first time

Rae Hodge
Rescuers work to extinguis a forest fire near the "Doña Juana" dump on January 24, 2024 in Bogota, Colombia. (Diego Cuevas/Getty Images)

Colombia plagued by wildfires

Rae Hodge
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A sign welcoming patients from East Texas is displayed in the waiting area of the Women's Reproductive Clinic, which provides legal medication abortion services, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 15, 2022. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Can abortion travel bans be enforced?

Nicole Karlis
Multiverse, bubbles, concept (Getty Images/VICTOR DE SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Can we escape this dismal reality?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Bad psychedelic trip, concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The dangers of psychedelic trip killers

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Woman sitting back in a chair with a tourniquet and IV in as she donates blood. (Getty Images/FatCamera)

Removing "forever chemicals" from blood

Matthew Rozsa
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Bottom trawler, fishing boat sailing along the North Sea coast silhouetted against orange sunset in front of Nieuwpoort, Flanders, Belgium. (Arterra/Philippe Clément/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Trawling the sea worsens climate change

Matthew Rozsa
North side of Washington White House (Getty Images/Marc Dufresne)

Inside the White House pill mill party

Rae Hodge
Elder man looking at an younger self in the mirror (Getty Images/tommasolizzul)

Who needs a test to tell your true age?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Galapagos penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) atop rock beside sea (Getty Images/David Madison)

Microplastics reach Galápagos penguins

Matthew Rozsa
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A group of seagulls are resting on top of the wooden wall under the hazy winter sky. (Getty Images/design-pulse.P)

Seagulls move in with us for our food

Matthew Rozsa
CASPAR, a small particle accelerator located nearly a mile underground at SURF, can recreate the conditions inside stars, including the first stars in the universe. (Matt Kapust / Sanford Underground Research Facility)

The poetry of a particle accelerator

Rae Hodge
People gather to protest the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022 in Portland, Oregon. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)

Abortion exceptions "have no meaning"

Nicole Karlis
In this National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) handout, plastic covers the exterior of the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX on January 7, 2024 in Portland, Oregon. (NTSB via Getty Images)

Boeing's problems stem from FAA neglect

Brian A. Barsky
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This photo taken on Nov. 7, 2023 shows a researcher from Shanghai Jiao Tong University debugging experimental facilities at the Deep Underground and Ultra-low Radiation Background Facility for Frontier Physics Experiments DURF in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Xu Bingjie/Xinhua via Getty Images)

New dark matter lab is world's largest

Rae Hodge
Doctor examining a newborn baby at a maternity hospital and listening to his heartbeat (Getty Images/andresr)

Pregnancy and vaccine hesitancy

Nicole Karlis
Young Boy in Bed with Measles in Home of U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA) Borrower, Greene County, Georgia, USA, Jack Delano. circa June, 1941. (Circa Images/GHI/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

"It’s a luxury" to say measles was mild

Nicole Karlis
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow on Wednesday morning 6 more weeks of winter during Groundhog Day celebration at the Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, United States on February 2, 2023. (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

PETA wants to retire Punxsutawney Phil

Kelly McClure
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Irrigation canal near Orange River in arid region of Northern Cape, South Africa (Getty Images/geoffsp)

Groundwater depletion can be reversed

Matthew Rozsa
NSW Rural Fire Service firefighter attempt to extinguish a bush fire at West Wallsend on December 14, 2023 in Newcastle, Australia. (Roni Bintang/Getty Images)

Climate crisis reaching inflection point

Wesley Morgan - The Conversation
A raft of sea otters (Enhydra nereis) congregates off the back deck of the Monterey Bay Aquarium in kelp. (Monterey Bay Aquarium / Tyson V. Rininger)

Sea otters help battle climate change

Matthew Rozsa
A banner reading 'Keep abortion safe and legal - someone you love may need a choice' at a National March for Women's Lives in Washington, DC, 9th March 1986. (Barbara Alper/Getty Images)

Why Roe v. Wade isn't coming back soon

Nicole Karlis
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