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Science & Health (page 187)

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

Scientist pipetting a virus onto a petri dish (Getty Images)

Lab leak theory "can't be ruled out"

Matthew Rozsa
Mother breastfeeding baby in living room (Getty Images)

Big Tech is coming for your breast milk

Julia Pelly
(Getty Images)

Oil companies all-in on petrochemicals

Constance B. Bailey - The Conversation
Different ways of thinking processing (Getty Images)

Is autism just a "language" difference?

Matthew Rozsa
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Police Vehicles (Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

New response strategies for crisis calls

Larry Buhl - Capital & Main
Ocean Current (Getty Images)

The current that makes Earth habitable

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

I fled my anxiety through Xanax

Matthew Rozsa
Communications satellite orbiting Earth (Getty Images)

Space pollution is a big problem

Timiebi Aganaba - The Conversation
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A senior patient using a mask looking through the window at the hospital (Getty Images)

How COVID impacted Alzheimer’s patients

Burcin Ikiz - Massive Science
British-Dutch oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell PLC sign , commonly known as Shell (Aleksander Kalka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Big Oil is awash in rainbows for Pride

Kate Yoder - Grist
Black Hole (Getty Images)

Is this what dark matter is?

Nicole Karlis
Health officials carry a dead body of coronavirus (Covid-19) victim on a stretcher to container morgues by the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Americans face a "grief pandemic"

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
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Anthony Fauci | COVID-19 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Doctors become unwilling celebrities

Matthew Rozsa
Shipping containers are unloaded at the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach, California on May 14, 2019. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)

Container ship accidents on the rise

Tim Lydon - The Revelator
Boxes containing the first shipments of the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are unloaded from air shipping containers at UPS Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky. Each box contains dry ice to keep the temperature at minus 70 Celsius and contains a GPS tracker. (Michael Clevenger - Pool/Getty Images)

5 COVID-19 vaccine myths, debunked

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
(Getty/stevanovicigor)

Weight stigma occurs around the world

Rebecca Puhl - The Conversation
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This bison calf, standing in the doorway of a barn on the Blackfeet Reservation, is a symbol of hope for the Blackfoot people. (Louise Johns / Undark)

Bringing bison back to the Great Plains

Louise Johns - Undark
The wildfire spreads on August 19, 2020 in San Mateo, California. (Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images)

How many has climate change killed?

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
While it makes for a colorful analogy, comparing the brain to a muscle is inaccurate and misleading.

The neurological reason you say "um"

Adriel John Orena - Massive Science
Nurse giving flu vaccine to a senior patient (Getty Images)

POTS turning up in COVID long-haulers

Cindy Loose - KFF Health News
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SIDS monitors: a mixed bag of evidence

Michael Schulson - Undark
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)

The next major extinction event is here

Matthew Rozsa
Pregnant Girl by Nicole Lynn Lewis (Photo illustration by Salon/Erika Layne/Beacon Press)

"Pregnant Girl" flips the script

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Macro image of a dead bee on a leaf (Getty Images)

A pollen-size "pill" for bees

Matthew Rozsa
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