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

man touching eyebrow, multiple reflections (Getty Images/Vera Atchou)

The danger of over-diagnosing narcissism

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Doctor advising cancer patient while examining x-ray (Getty Images/Maskot)

Cancer is rising in people under 50

Ashleigh Hamilton - The Conversation
Infant Chimpanzee in tree with leaf in mouth. (Getty Images/Yannick Tylle)

What ape elbow evolution says about us

Matthew Rozsa
Bruce Springsteen performs with The E Street Band at Autodromo Nazionale Monza on July 25, 2023 in Monza, Italy. (Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty Images)

Springsteen postpones shows amid illness

Troy Farah
President of Kenya William Ruto delivers his remarks during the Africa Climate Summit 2023 at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi on September 5, 2023. (LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images)

Africa wants global carbon taxes

Matthew Rozsa
Patients gather in the counseling area at one of the last remaining abortion providers in the South, at the Jackson Women's Health Organization also known as The Pink House in Jackson, MS on June 7, 2022. (Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Abortion bans stranding more patients

Elizabeth Hlavinka
The aerial view of Salton sea in California, USA (Getty Images/Yunpeng Li)

Salton Sea eyed for lithium extraction

June Kim - Undark
Mouse (Getty Images/kozorog)

Common supplement restores mice hearing

Matthew Rozsa
24 August 2023, Spain, Vinuela: Vegetation makes its way through the drought-ridden earth on the shores of the Viñuela reservoir. (Felipe Passolas/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Hottest summer ever shatters records

Matthew Rozsa
Exhausted construction worker (Getty Images/FG Trade)

Workers pay the price under extreme heat

Amy Maxmen - KFF Health News
Avi Loeb, physicist at Harvard University, poses for a portrait in the observatory near his office in Cambridge, MA. (Adam Glanzman/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Alien astrophysicist rebukes his critics

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Woman with shocked facial expression (Getty Images/GeorgePeters)

The neuroscience and physiology of fear

Arash Javanbakht - The Conversation
Exoplanet concept art (Getty Images/janiecbros)

Giant new exoplanet is denser than steel

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Earth and asteroid in the space, concept (Getty Images/buradaki)

Asteroid to swing by Earth on Wednesday

Matthew Rozsa
Silicon Valley investors Michael Moritz, Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon are backing a company called Flannery Associates that has been buying large parcels of land adjacent to Travis Air Force base approximately 60 miles northeast of San Francisco. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Welcome to the Big Tech company town

Rae Hodge
Space junk around Earth (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Space junk is only going to increase

Chris Impey - The Conversation
A patient at Hillside mental hospital undergoes electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), whereby an electric current is passed through the head. Developed in the 1930's, this controversial method is used in the treatment of severe depression in adults. (Carl Purcell/Three Lions/Getty Images)

Mysteries of electroconvulsive therapy

Astrid Landon - Undark
Cute pug dog sleeping on the floor (Getty Images/fongleon356)

Global heat will afflict snoutless dogs

Matthew Rozsa
A headquarters for the Church of Scientology is seen January 16, 2013 in Clearwater, Florida. (Getty Images)

Scientologists oppose right-to-repair

Rae Hodge
Colorful toucan in forest (Getty Images/Waldemar Seehagen)

Filling in biodiversity knowledge gaps

Ana Clara Faria
Teenage boy sleeping in the library (Getty Images/Mayur Kakade)

This is your brain on sleeplessness

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Overhead view on schoolboy and schoolgirl at school desk (Getty Images/golero)

Patients can't find Adderall in shortage

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Two prescription bottles with pain pills spilling out of them (Getty Images)

When AI decides what pain meds you get

Andy Miller, Sam Whitehead - KFF Health News
Fried Egg On Non-Stick Frying Pan (Getty Images/Maryna Terletska)

PFAS are everywhere

Matthew Rozsa
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