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Science & Health (page 169)

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

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
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(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
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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
Prescription medication is strewn about, with pill bottles in the deep background. (Getty Images)

New COVID treatments are on the horizon

JoNel Aleccia - KFF Health News
Coronavirus cell with DNA strands and white blood cells (Getty Images)

Gain-of-function: Hard to police

Charles Schmidt - Undark
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View of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine vials (Niels Wenstedt/BSR Agency/Getty Images))

How vaccines for kids are different

Nicole Karlis
Redhanded by Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire (Photo illustration by Salon/Steve Ullathorne)

What tips someone into Murderville?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A doctor holding an IUD birth control device (ADEK BERRY/AFP via Getty Images)

The shocking "DIY IUD removal" trend

Nicole Karlis
Doctor consulting with a young man (Getty Images/iStock)

NIH to look into male fertility crisis

Daniel Karel
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Members of the Missouri National Guard work to administer the Covid-19 vaccine during a vaccination event on February 11, 2021 at the Jeff Vander Lou Senior living facility in St Louis, Missouri. (Michael Thomas/Getty Images)

COVID deaths undercounted for POC

Mark Kreidler - Capital & Main
In "Ted Lasso," Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt) wears New Balance shoes, subtle product placement (until he later props his feet on a desk) (Apple TV+)

Why some product placement works better

Beth L. Fossen - The Conversation
Pug (Getty Images/mlorenzphotography)

Flat-faced dogs are quietly suffering

Matthew Rozsa
Trash in the ocean water (Getty Images/Juan Camilo Bernal)

How to reduce marine dead zones

Tara Lohan
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Woman making the loser sign while wearing a medical face mask (Getty Images/Egoitz Bengoetxea Iguaran)

Our schadenfreude epidemic

Matthew Rozsa
View of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine vials (Niels Wenstedt/BSR Agency/Getty Images))

Big Pharma's specious vaccine patent war

Charlotte Kilpatrick
Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Getty Images)

A scientist’s life in the treetops

Sarah Boon - Undark
Faucet with Water Drip (Getty Images)

A California city's new climate pledge

Yvette Cabrera - Grist
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