Help keep Salon independent

Emily Cataneo

Advertisement:

In the Senckenberg museum in Frankfurt on the Main on 24 June 1988, a woman looks at the reconstruction of the sceleton of "Lucy" who was a woman living in the area of today's Ethiopia about 3,2 million years ago and is one of the most famous fossils of early mankind. (Heinz Wieseler/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Shattering myths about women and evolution

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

Unlocking the mysteries of pain

Emily Cataneo
(Getty/Marija Jovovic)

Demystifying the idea of consciousness

Emily Cataneo
Tick on a leaf (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

How vermin helped shape the modern world

Emily Cataneo
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 a long-neglected disease

Emily Cataneo
Illustration of alien plants on a hospitable foreign planet (Getty Images)

A zoologist imagines what alien life might look like

Emily Cataneo
Concertina wire, added by U.S. Army troops, is seen covering the US-Mexico border wall in Nogales, Arizona (Max Herman/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

In the Sonoran Desert, GIS helps to map migrant deaths

Emily Cataneo
A tree sprouting in a forest (Getty Images)

In Appalachia, a plan to save wild ginseng

Emily Cataneo