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Science & Health (page 88)

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

A little boy and scary shadow of hand (Getty Images/Tatiana Maksimova)

The mistaken narrative about child abuse

Teresa Huizar
Bagel with lox and cream cheese (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

Poppy seeds affect drug test results

Gary Reisfield - The Conversation
Close-Up Of Woman Smoking Marijuana Joint (Getty Images/Mayara Klingner )

Marijuana has risks in pregnancy

Hilary A. Marusak - The Conversation
Concept of scientist exploring human brain. (Getty Images/Feodora Chiosea)

Do people just like women better?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Baby formula shortage, empty shelves at Target due to product recall and supply chain issues, Queens, New York. (Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Dark consequences to formula shortage

Jessica A. Marino, Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook - The Conversation
A dried out bank of a nearly water empty dam is pictured on a farm in Piket Bo-berg, Piketberg, north of Cape Town, on March 7, 2018 as a result of a three-year-long drought. (WIKUS DE WET/AFP via Getty Images)

The world after water

Matthew Rozsa
Director of the Christian Defense Coalition Rev. Patrick Mahoney speaks as a small group of anti-abortion activists rally against the availability of abortion pills at neighborhood pharmacies outside of a CVS Pharmacy on January 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

FDA approval of abortion pill suspended

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/oversnap)

New study links "free sugar" to cancer

Matthew Rozsa
Transgender flags (Getty Images)

The US' history of gender-affirming care

G. Samantha Rosenthal - The Conversation
Empty xylazine bottle found on the streets of Philadelphia (Christopher Moraff / Narcomedia)

What is xylazine?

Kavita Babu - The Conversation

Hany Farid
A Capuchin monkey rests on a tree branch in the Aurora Zoo in Guatemala. (Camilo Freedman/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The magic tricks for monkeys study

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/metamorworks)

Did an AI harvest your Facebook photos?

Nicole Karlis
A contractor walks through Clippinger Chevrolet in West Covina Saturday morning August 23, 2003 where vandals torched and vandalized sport utility vehicles early Friday morning. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

Eco-activism comes to mainstream fiction

Kate Yoder - Grist
Aerial view of the Iririki island facing Port Vila, Vanuatu capital city in the south pacific (Getty Images/@ Didier Marti)

Vanuatu scores a big climate win

Siri Chilukuri - Grist
PrEP pills to help protect people from HIV (Getty Images/YakubovAlim)

PrEP ruling will increase HIV spread

Nicole Karlis
A young teenager on the computer late at night (Getty Images/Ben Welsh)

Will Utah's social media bill help kids?

Nicole Karlis
Nuclear Plant Cooling Towers (Getty Images/John Harper)

Biden hopes to scale up energy storage

Akielly Hu - Grist
Moon surface with view sunrise of the earth (Getty Images/RomoloTavani)

NASA names 4 astronauts for Moon mission

Matthew Rozsa
Child and puppies (Getty Images/Sergey Ryumin)

Treating food allergies with... dog fur?

Matthew Rozsa
A woman depositing a plastic bottle in a recycling bin (Getty Images/Andrew Fox)

US cities want to send plastic to Mexico

Joseph Winters - Grist
Antarctica (Getty Images/Yvonne Wacht)

Melting ice may strangle ocean currents

Katie Myers - Grist
Woman burdened by her husband and children (Getty Images/Malte Mueller)

The quiet burden of "Emotional Labor"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Worried young woman sitting on bed at home. (Getty Images/Maria Korneeva)

The mental health impact of Dobbs

Nicole Karlis
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