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Science & Health (page 70)

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

A banner at the inaugural Earth Day depicting the earth calling out for help, New York City, 22nd April 1970. (Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Republicans weren't always anti-climate

Matthew Rozsa
Minks at farmer Stig Sørensen's estate where all minks must be culled due to a government order on November 7, 2020 in Bording, Denmark. (Ole Jensen/Getty Images)

Shut down fur farm disease factories

Matthew Rozsa
New mom closes her eyes as she kisses her baby's hand. (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

FDA approves postpartum depression pill

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Human airway epithelial cells after growth and differentiation inside an AirGel tissue-engineered airway. Green: mucus; orange: cilia; pink: actin; blue: nuclei. (Tamara Rossy (EPFL))

Lung-like organoids unlock lung disease

Matthew Rozsa
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Aerial View City in the US | Cancer Cell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Are humans a cancer on the planet?

Troy Farah
Neurology research, concept (Getty Images/TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
Carrizo Plain National Monument (Bob Wick/Bureau of Land Management)

Feds shutter some California oil wells

Elizabeth Hlavinka
The Grassy Narrows First Nations Reserve has been plagued by the neurotoxin for over 50 years after a pulp and paper company dumped 10 tonnes of mercury into the Wabigoon River, contaminating the fish that is a staple to their community. (Randy Risling/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

Mercury poisoning Indigenous community

Anita Hofschneider - Grist
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Girl with sanitary pads and tampons in pocket (Getty/Isabel Pavia)

Early puberty triggered by the pandemic

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Crane Valley Hotshots set a back fire as the York fire burns in the Mojave National Preserve on July 30, 2023. (DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Cali wildfires causing "fire whirls"

Matthew Rozsa
Condoms in red wrappers (Getty Images / Alberto Tudor / 500px)

Why are fewer Americans using condoms?

Nicole Karlis
Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) on human skin (Getty Images/epantha)

A mysterious tick-related meat allergy

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Scene setter images outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 in Atlanta, GA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Leprosy is probably endemic to Florida

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Nicotine patch, chewin gum and ecigarette (Getty Images/pixinoo)

Why e-cigs may help pregnant people quit

Nicole Karlis
Doctor Examining Pregnant Woman (Getty Images/chuanchai)

Maternity care access is worsening

Nicole Karlis
Artistic reconstruction of a group of Burgessomedusa phasmiformis swimming in the Cambrian sea (Reconstruction by Christian McCall)

Oldest known swimming jellyfish revealed

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Niels Bohr (1885-1862), Danish physicist. Noble Prize winner, 1922, seated at his desk (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Oppenheimer's hero was also problematic

Matthew Rozsa
A tubular hydrothermal vent that releases hot water, known as a "black smoker", in the Pacific Ocean (Getty Images/Ralph White)

Deep sea creatures impacted by mining

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A photo of Henrietta Lacks, sits in the living room of her grandson, Ron Lacks, 57, in Baltimore, MD on March 22, 2017. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Henrietta Lacks family settles lawsuit

Troy Farah
Early commissioning test image from Euclid’s Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument (ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA)

Europe's telescope shows "dark universe"

Matthew Rozsa
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Volunteer planting a tree (Getty Images/pipat wongsawang)

U.S. tree planting efforts fall short

Nicole Karlis
Melting icebergs are seen on Horseshoe Island as Turkish scientists conduct fieldwork on Horseshoe Island within 7th National Antarctic Science Expedition under the coordination of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye (TUBITAK) MAM Polar Research Institute with the joint responsibilities of the Turkish Presidency and Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technology in Antarctica, on February 26, 2023. (Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Antarctica missing massive sea ice

Matthew Rozsa
Tori Kelly (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Knowing about blood clots saves lives

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Two men in discussion (Getty Images/fizkes)

How to fight like a philosopher

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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