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Science & Health (page 75)

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

This deep galaxy field from Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) shows an arrangement of 10 distant galaxies marked by eight white circles in a diagonal, thread-like line. (Two of the circles contain more than one galaxy.) This 3 million light-year-long filament is anchored by a very distant and luminous quasar – a galaxy with an active, supermassive black hole at its core. (NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang (University of Arizona), Joseph DePasquale (STScI))

Webb spies early string of cosmic web

Nicole Karlis
Steve Buscemi, Will Patton, Bruce Willis, Michael Clarke Duncan, Ben Affleck, and Owen Wilson walking in NASA uniforms in a scene from the film 'Armageddon', 1998. (Touchstone/Getty Images)

"Armageddon" at 25: An anti-science epic

Matthew Rozsa
Diseased human liver on science background. 3D illustration (Rasi Bhadramani via Getty Images) (Getty Images)

Liver disease improved by weight loss

Dimitrios Koutoukidis - The Conversation
Amazon River Dolphin or Boto (Inia geoffrensis) Underwater, playing with leaf, Rio Negro, Amazon, Brazil (Getty Images/Kevin Schafer)

Pink dolphins at risk in the Amazon

Rae Hodge
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The sun sets behind smoke from a distant wildfire as drought conditions worsen on July 12, 2021 near Glennville, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Blocking the sun to slow global warming?

Rae Hodge
Vascular system CGI (Storman via Getty Images)

The big business of clogged arteries

Annie Waldman - ProPublica
Yellow crab on the beach (Getty Images/Bob Stefko)

Crabs are intelligent, sensitive animals

Matthew Rozsa
Octopus in action (Getty Images/Nikos Stavrinidis/500px)

Is it ethical to eat octopuses?

Matthew Rozsa
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Medical marijuana moroccan hash cannabis pollen hashish closeup in morocco (jackmalipan via Getty Images)

A brief history of cannabis hash

Roger Volodarsky
Powdered milk in plastic spoon on pink background (HUIZENG HU via Getty Images)

Formula shortage fueled unsafe feeding

Nicole Karlis
BITTER SPRINGS, ARIZONA - JANUARY 1: A rainbow is seen above homes in the Navajo Nation, on January 1, 2023 in Bitter Springs, Arizona. Reports say that nearly 40% of Navajo Nation is living without running water. Despite living near the Colorado River the Navajo Nation was left out of talks almost a hundred years ago when rule makers were drawing up the Colorado River Compact.(Photo by RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

How Arizona stands between tribes' water

Mark Olalde, Umar Farooq, Anna V. Smith - ProPublica
This photograph taken on January 10, 2023 shows a pile of recyclable plastic trash at the Syctom waste management company in Paris. (THOMAS SAMSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Why it's hard to ban "forever" chemicals

Matthew Rozsa
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Cabinet of replica human fosil skulls. From a college dept of Anthropology. (kickstand via Getty Images)

New study upends human evolution history

Carlyn Zwarenstein
A cemetery stands in stark contrast to the chemical plants that surround it October 15, 2013. 'Cancer Alley' is one of the most polluted areas of the United States and lies along the once pristine Mississippi River that stretches some 80 miles from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, where a dense concentration of oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and other chemical industries reside alongside suburban homes. (Giles Clarke/Getty Images)

EPA won't clean up "Cancer Alley"

Lylla Younes - Grist
Doctor checking pregnant woman with stethoscope (Getty Images/StefaNikolic)

Doctors leaving states banning abortion

Nicole Karlis
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks on stage during Bitcoin Conference 2023 at Miami Beach Convention Center on May 19, 2023 in Miami Beach, Florida. (Jason Koerner/Getty Images for Bitcoin Magazine)

RFK Jr. spreads anti-autism bigotry

Matthew Rozsa
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Vladimir Putin | Dolphins (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

All about Putin's covert combat dolphins

Rae Hodge
The Toronto skyline is seen covered by smoke from the CN Tower as wildfires in northeastern Ontario and Quebec continue to burn, in Toronto, Canada on June 28, 2023. (Arif Balkan/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Climate change causing wildfires

Matthew Rozsa
The sun sets behind the Statue of Liberty as it is partially obscured by heat waves from the exhaust of a passing ferry on May 31, 2020, in New York City. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

Heat this summer will cost $1 billion

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
In this artist’s interpretation, a pair of supermassive black holes (top left) emits gravitational waves that ripple through the fabric of space-time. (Photo courtesy of Aurore Simonnet for the NANOGrav Collaboration)

Scientists “hear” gravitational wave hum

Nicole Karlis
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Killer Whale family with Yacht (Getty Images/Jackson Roberts)

Are the orca "attacks" spreading?

Nicole Karlis
During quiet sleep, octopus laqueus appears white and motionless. This quiet sleep is punctuated by bursts of sleep that show wake-like activity (active sleep) roughly every hour. (Keishu Asada / Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)

Do octopuses dream of electric eels?

Rae Hodge
Stethscope on pile of US banknotes (PhotoAlto/Odilon Dimier via Getty Images)

Against crowdfunding for medical debt

Noam N. Levey - KFF Health News
Trine Freiesleben and Jean-Claude discussing the fingerprints and where to take OSL samples. (Kristina Thomsen)

The world's oldest Neanderthal art?

Matthew Rozsa
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