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Science & Health (page 209)

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

Illustration of a newly discovered black hole named MAXI J1820+070. (Aurore Simonnet and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)

How to explore a black hole

Leo Rodriguez, Shanshan Rodriguez - The Conversation
The US Department of Agriculture building is seen in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2019. (ALASTAIR PIKE/AFP/Getty Images)

Failures of new food guidelines

Chaseedaw Giles - KFF Health News
An elderly man, a resident of the sprawling township of Alexandra in Johannesburg, opens his mouth to receive a testing swab for COVID-19 coronavirus at a screening and testing drive in front of the Madala Hostel, on April 27, 2020. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) (MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

Does vaccine efficacy percentage matter?

Nicole Karlis
"The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What's Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again" by Richard Horton (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Polity)

Beyond a pandemic, we face a "syndemic"

Matthew Rozsa
An anti-mask protestor holds up a sign in front of the Ohio Statehouse during a right-wing protest "Stand For America Against Terrorists and Tyrants" at State Capitol on July 18, 2020 in Columbus, Ohio. - Protestors descended on Columbus, Ohio for a planned anti-mask rally in response to local laws requiring people to wear a mask in many Ohio cities. (JEFF DEAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Fear to promote vaccine could backfire

Amy Lauren Fairchild, Ronald Bayer - The Conversation
Vials and syringe with world map in background (Getty Images)

Which vaccine is "best?"

Matthew Rozsa
Bumble Bee, Bombus Hortorum, in flight, free flying over yellow buttercup flowers (Getty)

Biden urged to save bumblebees

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
An angry fish (Getty Images)

Fish would like you to shut up, please

Matthew Rozsa
Nurses work in the aisle in a hospital designated for COVID-19 patients in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Friday, March 06, 2020. (Feature China/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

Mental illness and COVID-19 mortality

Matthew Rozsa
Young guy and girl sitting on a couch looking bored (Getty Images)

Quarantine is making us more awkward

Nicole Karlis
Coronavirus vaccine vials in hospital (Getty Images)

It matter when people jump the line

Elisabeth Rosenthal - KFF Health News
Pregnant woman standing by the big window with face medical mask on (Getty Images)

Pregnant women pass antibodies to fetus

Nicole Karlis
Deep frying food in restaurant kitchen (Getty Images)

Fried food: Tasty but deadly

Matthew Rozsa
Coronavirus outbreak concept with disease cells as a 3D render (Getty Images)

Will vaccines work on mutant viruses?

Matthew Rozsa
A vaccine syringe is held over a model of a coronavirus (Peter Endig/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Can the US keep COVID variants in check?

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News
U.S. President Donald Trump walks to the Oval Office while arriving back at the White House on December 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

"Secret science" ban gets tossed

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leaves her news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Window to pass legislation is closing

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
Mediterranean hurricane (Medicane) Ianos makes landfall in Greece. (Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2020)

A "disasterologist" talks climate change

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Ammonite fossils (Getty Images)

A rare fossil find

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Venus (Getty Images/3quarks)

Sulfur dioxide mistaken for life sign?

Matthew Rozsa
An empty public restroom (Getty Images)

Is it safe to use public restrooms?

Nicole Karlis
Close up of scientist holding and analyzing planet earth (Getty Images)

Did states keep their climate promise?

Shannon Osaka - Grist
A researcher works on a vaccine against the new coronavirus COVID-19 at the Copenhagen's University research lab in Copenhagen, Denmark, on March 23, 2020. (THIBAULT SAVARY/AFP via Getty Images)

Medical volunteers face a new test

Michael Schulson - Undark
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New clues to help monarch conservation

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
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