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Science & Health (page 169)

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

A sign for the Food And Drug Administration is seen outside of the headquarters on July 20, 2020 in White Oak, Maryland. (Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)

The case to expand medication abortion

Destiny Lopez - Undark
A couple sit next to each other in a doctor's office and listen carefully to their doctor. (Getty Images/FatCamera)

Long-term couples share health traits

Daniel Karel
People display signs during the Kentucky Freedom Rally at the capitol building on August 28, 2021 in Frankfort, Kentucky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Individualistic societies fail on COVID

Matthew Rozsa
Senior man playing with puzzle (Getty Images/LightFieldStudios)

"Dementia brings up everything"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Britney Spears onstage performing at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards held at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in New York City on September 6, 2001. (Scott Gries/ImageDirect/Getty Images)

Britney's saga can happen to anyone

Christopher Magoon - KFF Health News
Rear view of large group of students attending a class (Getty Images)

Afraid to teach students to think

Christina Wyman
"Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion" by Wendy Suzuki (Photo illustration by Salon/Matt Simpkins/Atria Books)

Can you teach your brain to worry well?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Coronavirus and the Brain (Getty Images/Amornrat Phuchom)

Even mild COVID cases can affect brain

Jessica Bernard - The Conversation
(Getty/filadendron)

Healthy people shouldn't skip vaccine

Richard Bloomer - The Conversation
Mother Holding Autistic Daughter (Getty Images/SeventyFour)

Controversy over an autism "treatment"

Matthew Rozsa
Patient speaking with doctor about scans (Getty Images/zoranm)

Low health literacy: a "silent pandemic"

Talya Miron-Shatz
Students taking a test (Getty Images/kali9)

Opinion: AP test thwarts test takers

Jeanine Pfeiffer - Undark
People clap, cheer, and display protest signs during the Kentucky Freedom Rally at the capitol building on August 28, 2021 in Frankfort, Kentucky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Meet the anti-maskers... of 1847

Matthew Rozsa
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about combatting the coronavirus pandemic in the State Dining Room of the White House on September 9, 2021. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Dems' final shot at major climate policy

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Human footprint in the desert (Getty Images/Guido Dingemans, De Eindredactie)

New evidence of early human migration

Matthew Robert Bennett, Sally Christine Reynolds - The Conversation
Sunset over crashing ocean currents (Gordon Scammell/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Climate change is messing up currents

Matthew Rozsa
Overworked health care workers wearing protective face masks very sad sitting on the stairs (Getty Images/Juanmonino)

Healthcare system on brink of collapse

Nicole Karlis
Heavy smoke from nearby wild fires covers the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco on August 20, 2020 as seen from the Marin Headlands in Sausalito, California. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

How to purify your home after a wildfire

Bernard J. Wolfson - KFF Health News
(Getty/Eric Piermont)

A controversial climate change solution

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Betadine being poured into a metal vessel (BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Anti-vaxxers are drinking iodine now

Nicole Karlis
Cal firefighter Travis Moore lights a backfire along highway 50 as the Caldor Fire burns near Lake Tahoe, CA on Tuesday August 31, 2021. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Wildfires threaten West's drinking water

Sara Reardon - KFF Health News
Repeated vials and syringes with covid-19 vaccine (Getty Images)

J&J second shot boosts antibodies

Maureen Ferran - The Conversation
Siberian Husky (Getty/Mirjam Claus)

Humans once used dogs as currency: study

Matthew Rozsa
Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a massive hurricane-like storm big enough to swallow two Earths (Getty Images/Stocktrek Images)

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is speeding up

Nicole Karlis
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