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Science & Health (page 56)

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

Doctor holding patient leg while he is sitting (Getty Images/miniseries)

COVID-19 tied to Guillain-Barré syndrome

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) mother holding pup (Getty Images/Johnny Johnson)

Climate change is starving seals

Matthew Rozsa
Flames rise as smoke billows from a forest during a wildfire in Brasilia National Park on September 5, 2022. (EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images)

Record-breaking wildfires blanket Brazil

Siri Chilukuri - Grist
A pregnant woman in the foreground as the unrecognizable doctor shows her an ultrasound (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

Allow midwives to save lives in Alabama

Stephanie Mitchell, Avital Norman Nathman
Honey Bees (Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Honey bees may be altruistic

Matthew Rozsa
Happy mother and son holding hands and talking while taking a walk on the beach (Getty Images/skynesher)

What kids teach us about gender

Schuyler Bailar
The Golden Bachelor (ABC/Craig Sjodin)

"The Golden Bachelor's" sweet sadness

Mary Elizabeth Williams
The skull of an animal of the camelidae group on the dry Oued Tijekht in the Moroccan Sahara desert, near the central city of Tafraout in Morocco. (JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEK/AFP via Getty Images)

Our planet is simply getting too hot

Matthew Rozsa
The Pillars of Creation are set off in a kaleidoscope of color in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared-light view. The pillars look like arches and spires rising out of a desert landscape, but are filled with semi-transparent gas and dust, and ever changing. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Joseph DePasquale, Anton M. Koekemoer, Alyssa Pagan)

Listen to the sounds of the universe

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Jimmy Buffett arrives at the Opening Night of The Jimmy Buffett Musical "Escape To Margaritaville" on Broadway at The Marquis Theatre on March 15, 2018 in New York City. (Bruce Glikas/Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

Meet a newly discovered margarita snail

Matthew Rozsa
Lost Man (Getty Images/gremlin)

Déjà vu's cousin, “jamais vu," explained

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Two young boys sit in a basement late at night on a weekend watching a horror flick. (Getty Images/RichVintage)

Horror is good for your mind: Experts

Matthew Rozsa
Galactic trash orbiting Earth (Getty Images/janiecbros)

The place where satellites go to die

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Maxar overview satellite imagery shows the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano on January 6, 2022, before the eruption on January 14th , 2022 in Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Islands, Tonga. (Maxar via Getty Images)

Are volcanoes causing climate change?

Matthew Rozsa
Image shows a visualisation of the huge, glowing planetary body produced by a planetary collision. (Mark Garlick)

Astronomers see post-planetary collision

Matthew Rozsa
Asteroid approaching planet Earth (Getty Images/dzika_mrowka)

"Building blocks of life" in asteroid

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Farmer Spraying Chemicals (Getty Images/Edwin Tan)

Glyphosate in 98% of adolescents' urine

Matthew Rozsa
Research Vessel Falkor (too) (Schmidt Ocean Institute)

Treasure trove of "mermaid purses"

Ashley Balzer
The president of the Sami Parliament, Silje Karine Muotka (2R) in traditional outfit delivers a speech in front of activists from the "Nature and Youth" and "Norwegian Samirs Riksforbund Nuorat" as they were blocking the Ministery of finances to protest against wind turbines built on land traditionally used to her reindeer, in Oslo, on March 2, 2023. (OLIVIER MORIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Indigenous youth oppose energy project

Elisabeth Rasmussen - Grist
In the Senckenberg museum in Frankfurt on the Main on 24 June 1988, a woman looks at the reconstruction of the sceleton of "Lucy" who was a woman living in the area of today's Ethiopia about 3,2 million years ago and is one of the most famous fossils of early mankind. (Heinz Wieseler/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Shattering evolution myths about women

Emily Cataneo - Undark
A protester holds up a placard demanding research into Long Covid-19 during the demonstration. (Martin Pope/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Another report minimizes long COVID risk

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Hawk flying through space (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Space weather disrupts bird migration

Matthew Rozsa
Image of an atomic structure consisting of protons, neutrons and electrons (Getty Images/Oselote)

What is an attosecond?

Aaron W. Harrison - The Conversation
Man ill with flu in office (Getty Images/Harbucks)

Where California is "behind the curve"

Mark Kreidler - Capital & Main
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