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Science & Health (page 163)

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

The James Webb Space Telescope hovering over Earth, concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Astronomy doubles down on search for ET

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/KyleNelson)

A conversation can make an ant fertile

Matthew Rozsa
Doctor Talking with Patient (Getty Images/Jim Craigmyle)

Who decides what's "mentally healthy"?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty/metamorworks)

Can AI’s appetite for data be tamed?

John McQuaid - Undark
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Sad woman in hospital waiting room (Getty Images)

Mental health patients left in limbo

Andy Miller - KFF Health News
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi presents his national statement on day two of COP26 at SECC on November 1, 2021 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. 2021 sees the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference. (Alastair Grant - Pool/Getty Images)

The economic law that could save Earth

Carl Pope
Small boy getting a vaccine on his arm by a pediatrician wearing gloves. (Getty Images/Luis Alvarez)

The pediatric COVID vaccine, explained

Nicole Karlis
A field of dying maize plants (Getty Images/Guido Dingemans, De Eindredactie)

Climate change comes for the supermarket

Matthew Rozsa
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Capitol Hill, and logos of Chevron, BP, Exxon and Shell oil companies (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Oil execs play dumb at hearing

Joseph Winters, Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Brain with a futuristic graphical user interface in network connection space (Getty Images)

Book review: Pinker's "Rationality"

Dan Falk - Undark
Worried healthcare worker (Getty Images/FG Trade)

Doctors are depressed and traumatized

Nicole Karlis
Autumn Forest Road (Getty Images/rusm)

Weather changes affect fall foliage

Marc Abrams - The Conversation
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Emergency Room nurses and EMTs tend to patients in hallways at the Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital in Houston, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

ERs are swamped, though not by COVID

Kate Wells - KFF Health News
Jupiter (Getty Images/martin_adams2000)

Jupiter's red spot is very, very deep

Matthew Rozsa
A photo of a hand using a magnifying glass to check the authenticity of s Covid-19 vaccine card (Raychel Brightman/Newsday RM via Getty Images)

Inside the market for fake vaccine cards

Nicole Karlis
Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan as members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus make a visit to the institute in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on February 3, 2021. (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Sounding the first alarm on COVID-19

Gregory Zuckerman - Undark
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions (Getty Images)

Developing countries against "net zero"

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
COVID-19 new lambda variant (Getty Images/koto_feja)

Can safe UV lamps kill COVID-19?

Karl Linden - The Conversation
Exterior view of a Walmart store (Kena Betancur/VIEWpress via Getty Images)

The deadly pathogen sold at Walmart

Nicole Karlis
U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron speak at a G7 summit on June 12, 2021. (Getty Images)

G20 is "abysmal" on vaccines and climate

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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Mitch McConnell and Kyrsten Sinema (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Drug industry dollars flow into congress

Rachana Pradhan, Elizabeth Lucas, Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
Pregnant Woman (Getty Images/Pekic)

Can your friendship survive infertility?

Minna Dubin
Medical professional at reception with patients waiting in lobby at hospital (Getty Images/Luis Alvarez)

COVID aside, human health is improving

Sandro Galea
Hundreds are gathered to protest vaccination mandate in New York City, United States on September 13, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

How COVID eroded our trust in doctors

Mikkael Sekeres
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