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

Lab Grown Snowflakes (Photo illustration by Salon/Kenneth Libbrecht)

How to grow "designer" snowflakes

Nicole Karlis
PENGUIN ON ICEBERG IN THE ANTARCTICA (Getty Images)

How the coronavirus got to Antarctica

Nicole Karlis
Nurse Practitioner Terri Welch administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to a patient at the Haxby and Wigginton Group Medical Practice in Haxby, northern England on December 22, 2020. (LINDSEY PARNABY/AFP via Getty Images)

Vaccine allergic reactions, explained

Nicole Karlis
(Getty Images)

A weird radio signal from a nearby star

Matthew Rozsa
surgical mask patterned with a world map (Getty Images)

The Earth is not healing

Matthew Rozsa
Coronavirus COVID-19 spores (Getty Images)

What the new mutation means

Matthew Rozsa
Margaret Keenan, 90, is the first patient in the United Kingdom to receive the Pfizer/BioNtech covid-19 vaccine at University Hospital, Coventry, administered by nurse May Parsons, at the start of the largest ever immunization program in the UK's history on December 8, 2020 in Coventry, United Kingdom. (Jacob King - Pool / Getty Images)

Yes, my mom should get the vaccine first

Mary Elizabeth Williams
mage of the Kinman Dwarf galaxy, also known as PHL 293B, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2011, before the disappearance of the massive star. Located some 75 million light-years away, the galaxy is too far away for astronomers to clearly resolve its individual stars, but in observations done between 2001 and 2011, they detected the signatures of the massive star. These signatures were not present in more recent data. (NASA/ESA/Hubble/J. Andrews/University of Arizona))

The Star of Bethlehem's comeback?

Eric M. Vanden Eykel - The Conversation
Star of Bethlehem illustration (Getty Images)

A Star of Bethlehem redux?

Nicole Karlis
Crowds seen, on December 18, 2020 at Washington Reagan National Airport (DCA) with long queues at the Departure gates in Arlington, Virginia, as the Christmas holiday travel starts despite the Coronavirus pandemic. (DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images)

Public health doc says cancel travel now

Dean Obeidallah
(Reuters/Doug Murray)

"The great conjunction" of 2020

William Teets - The Conversation
Bunny the talking Dog (Instagram/@what_about_bunny)

Can Bunny the talking dog really talk?

Nicole Karlis
Stressed out mother sipping on a cup of coffee on her messy bed while her three daughters are playing around her (Getty Images)

Moms deserve good sex!

Gail Cornwall
Giant Hogweed (Getty/hapelena)

The rise of the "superweeds"

Natasha Gilbert - Undark
Alabama Mobile River (Getty Images)

Too late to save "America’s Amazon"?

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Janice Brown hooked up to a dialysis machine in COVID-19 unit isolation room at Desert Valley Medical Group, Victorville. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Dialysis industry spends big on CA races

Samantha Young - KFF Health News
A United Airlines passenger jet prepares to land at Reagan National Airport on February 5, 2020 in Washington, DC (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Going home for the holidays may be risky

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
A sign in front of King Elementary School encourages students to participate in remote learning on September 08, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. Students at King Elementary and the rest of Chicago public schools started classes today with students being taught remotely because of COVID-19 concerns. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

COVID is causing a teacher shortage

Lesley Lavery
(Getty/urbazon)

Cancer drugs: less might be more

Gunjan Sinha - Undark
Pumpjack at oil industry against cloudy sky during sunset in North Dakota, USA (Getty Images)

The push to plug abandoned oil wells

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Medical workers load a patient from Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center into an ambulance while wearing masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) in Andover, New Jersey. After an anonymous tip to police, 17 people were found dead at the long-term care facility, including two nurses, where at least 76 patients and 41 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

Where do we go from here?

John R. Platt - The Revelator
Christmas Tree Farm (Getty Images)

Are Christmas tree pesticides dangerous?

Nicole Karlis
David White, shown at his suburban Washington, D.C. apartment, was on dialysis for almost six years before a successful kidney transplant. (Larry C. Price)

Minorities' labyrinth to kidney care

Carrie Arnold - Undark
Brigid Yoder, Neuro Trauma ICU nurse, gets the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination at the Legacy Emanuel Medical Center on December 16, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Today was the first day of vaccinations in Oregon. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

What it's like to get the Pfizer vaccine

Nicole Karlis
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