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Science & Health (page 178)

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) American writer. (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

A poet’s scientific legacy

James Dinneen - Undark
Mallard Ducks Swimming In Lake (Getty Images/Colin Drewery)

How did duck sex get so weird?

Jess Thomson
Doctor talking to distressed patient (Getty Images)

Words can hurt (or heal) in healthcare

Erin Petersen-Edge
(Tom Merton/Getty Images)

Why free school meals can improve health

Matthew J. Landry - The Conversation
Dog in lying in grass sleeping (Photo illustration/Michael Cogliantry)

A "talking" dog reports her dreams

Nicole Karlis
People walking briskly (Getty Images)

This is your brain on walking

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef outside Cairns Australia during a mass bleaching event, thought to have been caused by heat stress due to warmer water temperatures as a result of global climate change. (Getty Images/Brett Monroe Garner)

Climate change decimates ocean ecosystem

Sam Purkis - The Conversation
The Cleveland Clinic: Cole Eye Institute (Photo courtesy of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation)

Clorox, Cleveland Clinic & the CDC

Michael Schulson - Undark
Outspace orbital view of planets and moons (Getty Images/Lev Savitskiy)

How moons are made

Matthew Rozsa
DNA, Atoms and particles (Getty Images/Yuichiro Chino)

Panpsychism: Is everything alive?

Matthew Rozsa
(Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Scientists denounce UK COVID plan

Kenny Stancil - Common Dreams
Jeff Bezos speaks about his flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard into space during a press conference on July 20, 2021 in Van Horn, Texas. Mr. Bezos and the crew that flew with him were the first human spaceflight for the company. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The psychology of megalomania

Nicole Karlis
Building of the company Johnson and Johnson | Vaccine (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Don't fear the vaccine warnings

Justin Vesser - The Conversation
(Getty/RuslanDashinsky)

Umbilical cord screenings & stillbirths

Claire Marie Porter - Undark
Group of students wearing protective face masks while raising their hands in class. (Getty Images/Fat Camera)

Schools to reopen without mask mandates

Nicole Karlis
The funeral of victims of a Nazi bombing in London during WW2 | Funeral workers bury the coffins of Covid-19 victims at a cemetery on July 19, 2021 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Life expectancy drop not just from COVID

Matthew Rozsa
The Catalina View Wines vineyard in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA on Monday, July 12, 2021 (Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images)

Disease-resistant grapes & wine's future

Agostino Petroni - Undark
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Senate Dems push to pass climate policy

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Covid-19 Delta Variant concept (Getty Images/Andriy Onufriyenko)

How scary is the delta variant?

Nicole Karlis
Bootleg Fire burns in Bly, Oregon. The Bootleg Fire has has spread over 212,377 acres, making it the largest among the dozens of blazes burning in the western U.S. fueled by record temperatures and drought. The extreme drought-hit western United States braced for more wildfire destruction July 16, 2021 as efforts to contain a vast blaze scorching southern Oregon failed to progress, and dangerous dry lightning storms were forecast in California. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A wildfire is making its own weather

Matthew Rozsa
A flooded street after Hurricane Sandy. (Getty/jonathansloane)

Flood me twice, shame on FEMA?

Jena Brooker - Grist
Visitors hike the Vernal Fall trail in Yosemite National Park, California. Yosemite is among California's biggest tourist destinations. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Don’t hike so close to me

Sarah Reed, Courtney Larson, Jeremy Dertien - The Conversation
A Juul vaping system with accessory pods in varying flavors (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Did Juul pay for junk science?

Jon Skolnik
Earth in a trash bag (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

29 years to save the ocean from plastic

Matthew Rozsa
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