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Science & Health (page 212)

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

dinosaur on beach (Getty Images)

New fossil sheds light on dinosaur sex

Matthew Rozsa
A picture taken on May 14, 2020 shows a Titan Arum flower that flourished the day before at the Belgian National Botanic Gardens in Meise. - The Titan Arum is the biggest flower on earth and it takes several years for the plant to make one single flower blossom. Particular to the flower is its strong, bad smell. (LAURIE DIEFFEMBACQ/BELGA/AFP via Getty Images)

Breathing life into the corpse flower

Doug Johnson - Undark
US President Joe Biden signs three documents including an Inauguration declaration, cabinet nominations and sub-cabinet noinations in the Presidents Room at the US Capitol after the inauguration ceremony to making Biden the 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today's inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. (Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool/Getty Images)

Experts back Biden's COVID-19 policies

Matthew Rozsa
Coronavirus vaccine vials in hospital (Getty Images)

Black people are vaccinated at low rates

Hannah Recht, Lauren Weber - KFF Health News
Joe Biden (Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

Biden gives hope to millions who stutter

Rodney Gabel - The Conversation
(Shutterstock)

How to fix the orphan drug problem

Nicole Hassoun - The Conversation
A woman walks by a sign 2metres in Dublin city centre during Level 5 Covid-19 lockdown. The Department of Health reported this evening 2,001 of new Covid-19 cases for the Republic of Ireland and 93 deaths, a new record for a confirmed number of daily deaths. On Tuesday, 19 January, 2021, in Dublin, Ireland. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The pandemic trauma will linger

Matthew Rozsa
Dr. Jordan Hottenstein checks a patient's teeth. At Central Berks Dental Center in Leesport Tuesday afternoon October 13, 2020. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

Is it safe to go to the dentist?

Nicole Karlis
GREAT YARMOUTH, ENGLAND - JULY 19: The sun starts to rise behind Britain's largest offshore wind farm off the Great Yarmouth coastline on July 19, 2006 in Norfolk, England. The 30 turbines cost GBP75million and can generate enough power for 41,000 homes are seen by supporters as a clean and green way to generate electricity and a way of cutting down on harmful green house gas emmissions. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

2021: Will offshore wind power take off?

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
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SVOCs altering children’s microbiomes

Lila Westreich - Massive Science
A young elephant from Asia stands near his mother in its enclosure at the Pairi Daiza Zoo in Brugelette, eastern Belgium, on August 15, 2019 (Photo by Philippe HUGUEN / AFP) (Photo credit should read PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images) (Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images)

Animals have rituals just like humans

Matthew Rozsa
Curious white laboratory rat looking out of a cage in a laboratory (Getty Images)

The rodent genocide in research labs

Matthew Rozsa
Pair of giant sauropods walking through water and a swarm of flying pterosaurs (Getty Images)

The largest dinosaur ever?

Matthew Rozsa
US President-elect Joe Biden receives a Covid-19 vaccination from Tabe Mase, Nurse Practitioner and Head of Employee Health Services, at the Christiana Care campus in Newark, Delaware on December 21, 2020. (Alex Edelman / AFP / Getty Images)

Biden unveils pandemic response plan

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
A child remains at an area affected by a drought on Earth Day in the southern outskirts of Tegucigalpa on April 22, 2016. (ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP via Getty Images)

Firsthand observations of climate change

Matthew Rozsa
United States debate (Getty Images)

Study: Conservatives reject empiricism

Matthew Rozsa
Woman with Child on Leash (Getty Images)

Raising children without autonomy

Gail Cornwall
Close up view of a doctor wearing surgical mask and a face shield in a hospital COVID ward. (Getty Images)

Don't stop wearing the mask

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
A student filling out a testing sheet (Getty Images)

Don't treat schools like big biz

Lee-Anne Gray
EMT Matt Johnson of Livingston Fire and Rescue receives a Moderna COVID-19 vaccination at the Park County Health Departments storefront clinic on January 5, 2021 in Livingston, Montana. (William Campbell/Getty Images)

Volunteers get their vaccines early

Nicole Karlis
Gavin Newsom (GettyKevork Djansezian)

California's "pandemic-induced reality"

Angela Hart - KFF Health News
Poudre Valley Hospital ICU Nurse Megan Tschacher shows off her vaccination card after getting the first round of Covid-19 vaccines at UC Health Poudre Valley Hospital on December 14, 2020 in Fort Collins, Colorado. The first Covid-19 vaccines were administered in Colorado to frontline health care workers in Fort Collins and Colorado Springs today. (Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

What is a coronavirus vaccine card?

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/David McNew)

Can a city truly be 100% renewable?

Shannon Osaka - Grist
Man and cat do a fist bump (Getty Images)

How humans messed up cat faces

Matthew Rozsa
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