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Science & Health (page 108)

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

Patients rest in a hallway in the overloaded Emergency Room area at Providence St. Mary Medical Center on January 27, 2021 in Apple Valley, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Income inequality comes for your health

Stephen Bezruchka
The School of Athens | Trash, Pollution, Environmental Problems (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Did Western philosophy ruin Earth?

Michael Paul Nelson, Kathleen Dean Moore
The Official Emblem of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™️ is unveiled in Doha's Souq Waqif on the Msheireb - Qatar National Archive Museum building on September 03, 2019 in Doha, Qatar. (Christopher Pike/Getty Images for Supreme Committee 2022)

World Cup not carbon neutral as claimed

Jessie Blaeser - Grist
Participants in a demonstration at the UN Climate Summit COP27, including Luisa Neubauer (3rd from right), climate activist with the Fridays for Future movement, hold placards and advocate for the 1.5 degree Celsius global temperature rise target. (Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images)

COP27 is over. What did it achieve?

Blanca Begert, Emily Pontecorvo, Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
U.S. President Joe Biden (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The meaning of an octogenarian president

Matthew Rozsa
Gretchen Bergman and her family (Photo courtesy of Gretchen Bergman)

Moms against the war on drugs

Troy Farah
Praise event in a local Church (Getty Images/middelveld)

Religious Americans pray for Earth: poll

Kate Yoder - Grist
US President Joe Biden delivers a speech during the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly known as COP27, at the Sharm El Sheikh International Convention Centre, in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt on November 11, 2022. (Mohamed Abdel Hamid/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trillions needed to fight climate change

Blanca Begert - Grist
Atom illustration (Getty Images/KTSDESIGN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

How to find rare forms of matter

Sean Liddick, Artemis Spyrou - The Conversation
Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (Getty/Mark Wilson)

Lylla Younes
Cow | Hemp pattern (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Cows get high from hemp

Troy Farah
Students sitting in a classroom and raising hands (Getty Images / skynesher)

Math disparities start in kindergarten

Paul L. Morgan - The Conversation
White and Black Turkeys Walk on a Green grass the Farmyard (Getty Images/oxygen)

The violent social lives of turkeys

Matthew Rozsa
3D rendered image, enhanced scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of cancer cells. (Getty Images/koto_feja)

Mutations make cancer cells immortal

Pattra Chun-On - The Conversation
Family argument at the dinner table (Getty Images/Image Source)

A conflict expert on surviving holidays

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Prepared Poultry ready for cooking (Getty Images/jax10289)

How to kill common turkey pathogens

Matthew Rozsa
Participants talk to each other during a break in the closing ceremony at the UN Climate Summit COP27. (Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images)

The climate reparations battle at COP27

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
Boy lying sick on the sofa at home while his mother takes care of him and helping him to measure his temperature with a digital thermometer. (Getty Images/miljko)

COVID-19 increases seizure risk in kids

Matthew Rozsa
SunCor Energy Refinery in Denver, Colorado. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Energy dearth sets back renewable energy

Robert Brecha - The Conversation
Dry and cracked riverbed is seen during drought season on April 23, 2021 in Santa Clara County, California. (Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images)

Flash droughts threaten the environment

Antonia Hadjimichael - The Conversation
Rear view of large group of students raising their hands to answer the question on a class at elementary school. (Getty Images)

Can your school tell you what to wear?

Brian Boggs - The Conversation
Math formulas are written on the school board (Getty Images)

Why some students are "bad" at math

Frances E. Anderson - The Conversation
Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers gathered at Indiana University's Sample Gates to protest against mandatory Covid vaccinations IU is requiring for students, staff and faculty during the upcoming fall semester. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The COVID death "gap" between US states

Matthew Rozsa
Mothers with children, back to school during covid-19 (Getty Images)

Bridging the education gap in schools

Adriana Villavicencio - The Conversation
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