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Science & Health (page 60)

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

A man is seen walking on a foggy warm sunrise during a new heat record in The Netherlands. In Nijmegen, on September 10th, 2023. (Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

September sets yet another heat record

Max Graham - Grist
Surgeon wearing a medical mask (Getty Images/pipat wongsawang)

Should hospitals be bringing back masks?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Medical syringe and vaccine with cash (Getty Images/Yulia Naumenko)

Big Pharma slowed vaccine development

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - ProPublica
A covid-19 vaccine is seen with the Novavax logo in the background. (Photo Illustration by Nikos Pekiaridis/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Novavax COVID-19 vaccine approved

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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This illustration shows a messy, chaotic galaxy undergoing bursts of star formation. (ESA/NASA/L. Calçada)

Science explains "impossible" galaxies

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Mercury (Getty Images/themotioncloud)

Shrinking planet Mercury getting smaller

David Rothery - The Conversation
Portrait of a young woman, with the shadow of a rose (Getty Images/Westend61)

The study of smell loss still struggles

Hannah Docter-Loeb - Undark
Monk Parakeet (Getty Images/iculizard)

Parrots have "voiceprints" like humans

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Amazon River Dolphin (Getty Images/Michel VIARD)

Climate change kills Amazon dolphins

Matthew Rozsa
Luddite Frame-breaker wielding a hammer | Automated car building factory robots (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Wiki Commons)

Rage against machine learning

Matthew Rozsa
The Washington Works DuPont plant in Parkersburg, WV on October 28, 2015. (Maddie McGarvey/ For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Industry knew about the perils of PFAS

Tracey J. Woodruff, Nadia Gaber - Undark
Paramedics taking patient on stretcher from ambulance to hospital (Getty Images/JazzIRT)

Climate fueling booze hospitalizations

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Agents simulate a raid in their Tactical Training Facility, part of the new National Clandestine Laboratory Training and Research Facility December 5, 2008 at the DEA Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia. (TIM SLOAN/AFP via Getty Images)

It’s time to admit the drug war is over

Troy Farah
A young woman holding a pregnancy test (Getty Images/Ekaterina Goncharova)

Drop in teen births is slowing

Catherine Sweeney - KFF Health News
Embroidery skull and roses, grapes, humming bird and flower (Getty Images/Matriyoshka)

Your microbes live on after you die

Jennifer DeBruyn - The Conversation
Toilet and toilet paper holder in field of dandelions (Getty Images/Hiroshi Higuchi)

What we can learn from the "poop shelf"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Senior Japanese man on tropical beach, Ikema Island of Miyako Islands, Okinawa, Japan (Getty Images/Ippei Naoi)

Are blue zones real or a health grift?

Philip Finkelstein
This mosaic of Bennu was created using observations made by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that was in close proximity to the asteroid for over two years. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona)

NASA finds a surprise on an asteroid

Matthew Rozsa
5 years-old Eastern Screech Owl (Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Lessons from rescuing a baby owl

Matthew Rozsa
Holding a large mushroom (Photo courtesy of MycoMeditations)

How psychedelic retreats can help heal

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Senior man doing a jigsaw puzzle (Getty Images/LightFieldStudios)

What biomarkers say about Alzheimer's

Carlyn Zwarenstein
A healthcare professional talks with a young patient (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

Talk to your teen about sex and SSRIs

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Doctor explains something to his patient whilst writing a prescription (Getty Images/sturti)

The miracle molecule no one can get

Aaron Ferguson
An activist holds placard during a 'Rally for Climate Sanity' outside Calgary's Town Hall in opposition to the 24th World Petroleum Congress Opening Ceremony, on September 17, 2023, in Calgary, Canada. (Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Dr. Michael Mann on "our fragile moment"

Matthew Rozsa
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