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Science & Health (page 144)

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

Upset Man Standing Against Wall (Getty images/Simon Josefsson/EyeEm)

Is grieving too long a disorder?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A captured fisher is released after undergoing sedation and physical examination, a part of the Hoopa Valley Tribe’s longstanding efforts to monitor the culturally important species. (Elizabeth Miller / Undark)

The quest to monitor a rare carnivore

Elizabeth Miller - Undark
Students at the Norfolk County Agricultural High School participated in a Gay Student Alliance protest/rally in Walpole, MA on March 11, 2022. The event was held in conjunction with the school administration to support a nationwide student protest over anti-LGBT government education plans in Florida and Texas. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

How "don't say gay" harms LGBTQ youth

Nicole Karlis
A scientist in front of a blackboard filled with formulas and equations (Getty Images/nicolas_)

Academia is failing future scientists

Paul M. Sutter - Undark
Pumpjack at oil industry against cloudy sky during sunset in North Dakota, USA (Getty Images)

SEC requires public emissions disclosure

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) attends a press conference with fellow Republican Senators about the Senate Democrats at the U.S. Capitol on September 29, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Republican's accused the Democrats of failing to pass legislation to solve government spending and security issues. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Why Big Pharma loves Tim Scott

Rachana Pradhan, Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
A bumblebee, chimpanzee and humpback whale (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Do animals have social lives?

Matthew Rozsa
Anti-abortion and pro-choice demonstrators wave their signs outside the United States Supreme Court Building during the former group's annual March for Life, Washington DC, January 22, 1989. Among the visible signs are 'Equal Rights Begin in the Womb,' 'Life Begins at Conception,' and, on the other side of the issue, 'Keep Abortion Legal.' (Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why no one can define when "life" begins

Nathan Nobis
Pro-life demonstrators protest outside of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on November 1, 2021. The Supreme Court is set to hear challenges to Texas' restrictive abortion laws. - The conservative-majority US Supreme Court hears challenges on Monday to the most restrictive law passed since abortion was made a constitutional right nearly 50 years ago -- a Texas bill that bans a woman from terminating a pregnancy after six weeks. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Red states push strident abortion bans

Julie Rovner - KFF Health News
Coronavirus COVID-19 impact in the States (Getty Images)

The red state-blue state COVID rift

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/JamesBrey)

Replacing Russian oil with ethanol

Diana Kruzman - Grist
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)

Colorado wildfire burns through the snow

Eric Schank
Female doctor with clipboard isolated with blue plastic drapes (Getty Images/golubovy)

A nurse's honest mistake ends in prison

Nicole Karlis
Joe Rogan (Dylan Buell/Getty Images)

Rogan's favorite Covid drug doesn't work

Matthew Rozsa
Megachile pluto, aka Wallace's Giant Bee (WikiCommons/Naturalis Biodiversity Center)

The parable of the world’s largest bee

Oliver Milman - Undark
Bruce Willis (Rich Fury/Getty Images)

What is aphasia and who gets it?

Matthew Rozsa
A CVS pharmacist gives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to a resident at the Emerald Court senior living community in Anaheim, CA (Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

FDA approves second shot for 50+

Nicole Karlis
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) listens during a committee meeting on Capitol Hill on October 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Why the Senate hasn't made climate deal

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Clinical support technician Douglas Condie extracts viruses from swab samples so that the genetic structure of a virus can be analysed and identified in the coronavirus testing laboratory at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, on February 19, 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Jane Barlow - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

"Son of omicron" is now dominant in U.S.

Eric Schank
This illustration depicts NASA's Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. Perseverance will land at the Red Planet's Jezero Crater (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

NASA wants two more Mars landers

Nicole Karlis
Dakota Access Pipeline (Getty Images)

Dakota Access Pipeline breaks the law

Joseph Lee - Grist
(Getty/kosmos111)

Mosquitoes are happy with climate change

Melissa Bailey - KFF Health News
Jada Pinkett Smith attends the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

What is alopecia and who gets it?

Nicole Karlis
Doctors and nurses taking care of patients in ICU at hospital during COVID-19 (Getty Images)

Two years with long COVID

Nicole Karlis
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