Help keep Salon independent

Science & Health (page 101)

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

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek | Sperm under a microscope (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The regretful discoverer of sperm

Matthew Rozsa
Artificial Intelligence Chatbot concept (Getty Images/Carol Yepes)

Meet the AI that thinks it can write

Gary N. Smith
(Getty/MilosBataveljic)

Why chickenpox can increase stroke risk

Andrew Bubak - The Conversation
United States Senator and nominee for president, Barry Goldwater (1909 - 1998) speaking at an election rally in Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA, 28th October 1964. (William Lovelace/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Is the Goldwater Rule outdated?

Matthew Rozsa
Girl drawing smiley face on to a wall (Getty Images/Flashpop)

The case for small resolutions

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(NASA)

A gamma-ray burst challenges physics

Eleonora Troja, Simone Dichiara - The Conversation
Bacteria Lactobacillus in human intestine (Getty Images/nopparit)

How sepsis can lead to cell death

Alexander (Sasha) Poltorak, Hayley Muendlein - The Conversation
Enteroviruses, a group of RNA-viruses of the Picornaviridae family including Echo-viruses, Coxsackie-viruses, Rhino-viruses, Polio-virus and other (Getty Images/Dr_Microbe)

Newly-discovered organisms eat viruses

Troy Farah
People wait in line to be tested for COVID-19 at Union Station on January 7, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. A free distribution of COVID rapid test kits for those who received vaccination shots or booster shots was also held nearby in Union Station. Thirty new deaths and over 37,000 new cases of COVID-19 were reported by Los Angeles County amid the continued spread of the Omicron variant. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

COVID-19 testing fraud rampant

Anjeanette Damon - ProPublica
Body System concept (Getty Images/zf L)

What does "heart rate variability" mean?

Anne R. Crecelius - The Conversation
Magic Mushroom (Getty Images/VICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Drug science in 2023 is gonna be lit

Troy Farah
Herpes virus (CAVALLINI JAMES/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Tests start for herpes vaccine

Matthew Rozsa
Girl refusing cigarette (Getty Images/MiljaPhoto)

Teens are becoming more square

Troy Farah
A boat approaching a small island in the Aegean Sea. (Getty Images/George Pachantouris)

Boats predate humans — by 500,000 years

Troy Farah
Firefighters battle the NCAR Fire on March 26, 2022 in Boulder, Colorado. The wildfire, which has forced almost 20,000 people to evacuate their homes, started just a few miles away from where the Marshall Fire destroyed more than 1,000 homes in December. (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

Fires in Colorado get more unpredictable

Jennifer Oldham - ProPublica
Silhouettes of students with graduate caps in a row on sunset background (Getty Images)

How to fix adult education

Annie Waldman, Aliyya Swaby, Anna Clark - ProPublica
A pregnant woman receiving an ultrasound (Getty Images/Antenna)

Why is the doctor ignoring me?

Duaa Eldeib - ProPublica
Little boy feeling pain while getting a vaccine (Getty Images/Luis Alvarez)

The quest to make a needle-less vaccine

Matthew Rozsa
Which Is The Weightier? (Artist John Doyle/The Print Collector/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

The cultural relativity of beauty

Matthew Rozsa
Protesters holding a banner during the construction blockade. 10 people from the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion NYC (XRNYC) were arrested in Bushwick for blocking the construction of the North Brooklyn fracked gas transmission pipeline for over 2 hours in a non-violent civil disobedience protest of this massive fossil fuel project. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Yes, local climate activism works

Adam Aron - The Conversation
(Getty/Emmanuel Dunand)

Public transit recovering from pandemic

Kari Edison Watkins - The Conversation
New Twitter owner Elon Musk is seen surrounded by Twitter logos (STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Twitter's threat to public health

Anjana Susarla - The Conversation
A man holding a non-stick pan with a damaged coating (Getty Images/Elena Gurova)

3M to stop making ‘forever chemicals’

John McCracken, Joseph Winters - Grist
DNA molecule (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The case of the first gene-edited babies

G. Owen Schaefer - The Conversation
« Previous
Page: 101
Next »
Advertisement: