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Topic: Science (page 30)

Hubble Space Telescope (Getty Images/James Benet)

Hubble stops, and starts again

Nicole Karlis
A 5th instar Rhodnius pallescens (Kissing Bug) sitting on a hand, engorged after consuming the blood of nearby fauna in Panama. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer K Peterson, PhD / jennipeterson.com)

Lifting the curtain on Chagas disease

Emily Cataneo - Undark
The Joy Of Sweat by Sarah Everts (Photo illustration by Salon/Joerg Emes/W. W. Norton & Company)

Why sweating is a human "superpower"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty/balono)

Fewer adults want children — a lot fewer

Jennifer Watling Neal, Zachary Neal - The Conversation
Great White Shark cruises through the ocean displaying its power and grace that many people fear. (Getty Images/Cat Gennaro)

Coexisting with sharks in Cape Cod

Sarah Sax - Undark
Stressed Woman By Laptop On Table (Getty Images/Bundit Binsuk)

Fearing in-person work? You're not alone

Matthew Rozsa
Rick and Morty | Loki (Photo illustration by Salon/Adult Swim/Marvel Studios)

Do we live in a multiverse?

Matthew Rozsa
A health worker prepares a dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 (Getty Images)

5 unvaxxed clusters putting U.S. at risk

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Meteorite in orbit (Getty Images)

Unlocking a meteorite's ancient clues

Matthew Rozsa
Macro image of a dead bee on a leaf (Getty Images)

Blumenauer wants to save pollinators

Lisa Held - Civil Eats
Demosponges in a coral reef in the Caribbean Sea (Getty Images)

Cruises returns, but at what cost?

Kelly Heber Dunning - The Revelator
The body of a VW ID.3 hangs on a production line during a press tour of Volkswagen's Transparent Factory. At the site in Dresden, 35 fully electric vehicles are produced every day. (Effect due to long exposure) (Sebastian Kahnert/picture alliance via Getty Images)

US wants to change EV batteries

Maddie Stone - Grist
Water Heater | Grand Coulee Dam (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Saving the Earth with... water heaters?

Evan Mills
Flames rise near homes during the Blue Ridge Fire on October 27, 2020 in Chino Hills, California. Strong Santa Ana Winds gusting to more than 90 miles per hour have driven the Blue Ridge Fire and Silverado Fire across thousands of acres, grounding firefighting aircraft, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee, and gravely injuring two firefighters. More than 8,200 wildfires have burned across a record 4 million-plus acres so far this year, more than double the previous record. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Scientists urge US to skip the fireworks

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Coronavirus and blood cells (Getty Images)

Mast cells and the mystery of long COVID

Temma Ehrenfeld - Undark
DNA in a speech bubble (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Have we hit peak DNA?

Olga Mecking
Young Woman Swimming With Nurse Sharks (Getty Images/Zoe Esteban)

Sharks are having a PR crisis

Melissa Cristina Marquez
Comparison of craniums, with the Harbin "Dragon Man" skull on the right. (Kai Geng)

The "Dragon Man" skeptics, explained

Nicole Karlis
A burned residence smolders during the Bear fire, part of the North Lightning Complex fires, in unincorporated Butte County, California on September 09, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

New book debunks myths about wildfires

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Mummified Remains in Tomb of the Golden Mummies (Getty Images/Ron Watts)

The thorny ethics of museum mummies

Doug Struck - Undark
Petrified tree trunks beside the rio Manati near Iquitos, Peru (iStock/Getty Images)

Secrets of Peru's petrified forest

Herb Meyer, Deborah Woodcock - The Conversation
This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova explosion with a rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in its center. In October 2017, astronomers detected the merger of two neutron stars some 130 million light-years away. (Getty/NASA)

A 967-year-old astronomy mystery solved

Nicole Karlis
(Leonardo Carrato/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Study warns of severe drying for Amazon

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
Radio transmission to the Milky way galaxy and star dusts in deep space (Getty Images)

No more "mystery of missing matter"

Emmanuel Fonseca - The Conversation
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