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Topic: Science (page 28)

Eating candy in our backyard after the Halloween (Getty Images/Aleksandar Nakic)

Sugar: The scariest part of Halloween?

Matthew Rozsa
(Drew Angerer/Getty Images))

How Big Tobacco made menthol racial

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Magnet Over Earth (Getty Images/CSA Images)

Is Earth inside a magnetic tunnel?

Matthew Rozsa
Pigeons (Iain Blake)

When humans abandoned our pigeon pets

Nicole Karlis
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Brain with eyeglasses (Getty Images/Jolygon)

The brain has a "backup system"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Photomicrograph of algae (Getty Images/NNehring)

Using algae for stroke recovery

Nicole Karlis
3D render of a man with strong pain in head (Getty Images/peterschreiber.media)

Is Havana syndrome real? Probably not

Matthew Rozsa
ARTIST’S RENDITION OF A NEWLY-DISCOVERED JUPITER-LIKE EXOPLANET ORBITING A WHITE DWARF, OR DEAD STAR. THIS SYSTEM IS EVIDENCE THAT PLANETS CAN SURVIVE THEIR HOST STAR’S EXPLOSIVE RED GIANT PHASE AND IS THE VERY FIRST CONFIRMED PLANETARY SYSTEM THAT SERVES AS AN ANALOG TO THE FATE OF THE SUN AND JUPITER IN OUR OWN SOLAR SYSTEM. (W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko)

A glimpse into our solar system's future

Nicole Karlis
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In this handout images provided by the International Federation of Red Cross Japan, A member of the Japanese Red Cross team walks through what is left of the city of Otsuchi, after an 9.0 magnitude strong earthquake struck on March 11, off the coast of north-eastern Japan, March 14, 2011 in Otsuchi, Japan. The quake struck offshore at 2:46pm local time, triggering a tsunami wave of up to 10 metres which engulfed large parts of north-eastern Japan. On Tuesday there was a third explosion from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant causing fears for the radiation levels being emitted from the plant. (Patrick Fuller/Japanese Red Cross/IFRC via Getty Images)

Fukushima's animals are... thriving?

Matthew Rozsa
Radio tower emitting (Getty Images/alengo)

A mysterious repeating chirp from space

Nicole Karlis
Joe Rogan is seen in the commentary booth during the UFC 220 event at TD Garden on January 20, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

Rogan defends CNN host after interview

Rocio Fabbro
Author Steven Pinker (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Steven Pinker on "Rationality"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Bunny the talking Dog (Instagram/@what_about_bunny)

Do dogs miss us when we leave?

Nicole Karlis
An illustration of two ivory billed wood pecker (Getty Images/Imagezoo)

23 gone, countless more to save

John R. Platt - The Revelator
ALMA, in which ESO is a partner, and the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have imaged GW Orionis, a triple star system with a peculiar inner region. Unlike the flat planet-forming discs we see around many stars, GW Orionis features a warped disc, deformed by the movements of the three stars at its centre. The ALMA image (left) shows the disc’s ringed structure, with the innermost ring separated from the rest of the disc. The SPHERE observations (right) allowed astronomers to see for the first time the shadow of this innermost ring on the rest of the disc, which made it possible for them to reconstruct its warped shape. (ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), ESO/Exeter/Kraus et al.)

A planet orbiting three stars?

Nicole Karlis
Rear view of large group of students attending a class (Getty Images)

Afraid to teach students to think

Christina Wyman
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Siberian Husky (Getty/Mirjam Claus)

Humans once used dogs as currency: study

Matthew Rozsa
Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a massive hurricane-like storm big enough to swallow two Earths (Getty Images/Stocktrek Images)

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is speeding up

Nicole Karlis
Redhanded by Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire (Photo illustration by Salon/Steve Ullathorne)

What tips someone into Murderville?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Members of the Missouri National Guard work to administer the Covid-19 vaccine during a vaccination event on February 11, 2021 at the Jeff Vander Lou Senior living facility in St Louis, Missouri. (Michael Thomas/Getty Images)

COVID deaths undercounted for POC

Mark Kreidler - Capital & Main
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In "Ted Lasso," Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt) wears New Balance shoes, subtle product placement (until he later props his feet on a desk) (Apple TV+)

Why some product placement works better

Beth L. Fossen - The Conversation
Pug (Getty Images/mlorenzphotography)

Flat-faced dogs are quietly suffering

Matthew Rozsa
Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Getty Images)

A scientist’s life in the treetops

Sarah Boon - Undark
"The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness" by Suzanne O'Sullivan (Photo illustration by Salon/Jonathan Greet/Pantheon)

"We're pushed into overdiagnosing"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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