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Topic: Science (page 2)

View of Mount Vesuvius from the ground of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii (Getty Images/Andrea Pucci)

How volcano victim's brain turned glass

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Illustration of an asteroid approaching planet Earth (Getty Images/buradaki)

The hard science of asteroid collisions

Matthew Rozsa
Ted Cruz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The science Ted Cruz calls “woke"

Agnel Philip, Lisa Song - ProPublica
Planet Mars (Getty Images//Cobalt88)

We now know why Mars is so red

Matthew Rozsa
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in front of the Federal Prison Medical Center in Lexington Kentucky. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

No evidence drug farms treat addiction

Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch
Donald Trump shredding the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) logo (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Gutting climate data threatens public

Carlyn Zwarenstein
U.S. Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX), Chair of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, presides over Howard Lutnick, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for Commerce Secretary, during his Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing in the Russell Senate Office Building on January 29, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Collateral damage in war against DEI

Teresa Carr, Margaret Manto - Undark
In Nijmegen, Netherlands, on January 12, 2025, the short-lived high water wave from Germany causes a rise in the water levels. Low parts of the quay around the harbor at the Waalkade and low parts of the dikes are underwater. (Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Losing family to climate change denial

Matthew Rozsa
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The Small Magellanic Cloud, a member of the Local Group of galaxies and a companion of our Milky Way Galaxy. (Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

A recipe for baby stars: Fluffy clouds

Matthew Rozsa
Glyptodon (Getty Images/estt)

The Miocene era and our future climate

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Dog nose between pink cherry blossoms (Getty Images/Ve Shandor/500px)

Why smell and sight are close friends

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Spinning Galaxy (Getty Images/cokada)

One Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies?

Chris Impey - The Conversation
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Elon Musk and a sign for the National Institute of Health (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Musk bites the federal hand that fed him

Amanda Marcotte
School of Pacific Cownose Ray, Rhinoptera steindachneri, Cabo Pulmo Marine National Park, Baja California Sur, Mexico. (Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Scientists solve mystery of ray tails

Matthew Rozsa
Executive director of Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research uses a stereo scope to examine a sediment sample to identify microplastics within a sample in Long Beach on Tuesday, October 1, 2024. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Microplastics in brains are accumulating

Matthew Rozsa
The contents of a Narcan first aid kit are shown. (Michelle Mengsu Chang/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

A gentler drug overdose reversal

Claire Zagorski
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The sun is reflected on the sand on a warm, winter day at La Jolla Shores beach as smoke from the Los Angeles fires settles on the Pacific Ocean at sunset on January 10, 2025 in San Diego, California. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

Is climate change spiraling out faster?

Matthew Rozsa
ATLANTA, GA - OCTOBER 05: A podium with the logo for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the Tom Harkin Global Communications Center on October 5, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia. The first confirmed Ebola virus patient in the United States was staying with family members at The Ivy Apartment complex before being treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. State and local officials are working with federal officials to monitor other individuals that had contact with the confirmed patient. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

CDC ordered to pull gender studies

Nicole Karlis
Asteroid approaching planet Earth (Getty Images/dzika_mrowka)

Life ingredients discovered on asteroid

Matthew Rozsa
Flying foxes flying in the sky at 17 island marine park in Riung, Flores, Indonesia. (Getty Images/Bruno Guerreiro)

Why bats don't get sick from viruses

Matthew Rozsa
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Towana Looney, 53, who received a gene-edited pig kidney undergoes medical testing at NYU Langone Health on December 11, 2024 in New York. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Pig organ transplantee passes milestone

Matthew Rozsa
Illustration of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system. (Courtesy of NASA)

Americans support asteroid defense funds

Robin George Andrews - Undark
Person admiring the Northern Lights (aurora borealis) (Getty Images/Marco Bottigelli)

Psychedelic healing and feelings of awe

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Wegovy, an injectable prescription weight loss medicine that has helped people with obesity. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Semaglutide: a "wonder drug" with risks

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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