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Is zinc a placebo for colds?

Doctors weigh in on the popular supplement during cold season

Salon · Dec 18, 2024

Lack of answers fuels drone paranoia

Without a definitive explanation for purported drone sightings, idle speculation has filled the void

Salon · Dec 17, 2024

Uploading the brain to live forever

Is immortality possible by digitally scanning the brain? Dr. Zeleznikow-Johnston believes so but some are skeptical

Salon · Dec 16, 2024

Bad news for Trump bid to undo $485M hit

The judgment doesn't just "evaporate just because you become president," former NY AG prosecutor says

Salon · Dec 13, 2024

Behind lack of empathy for UHC CEO death

Experts explain why the public empathize with some killers and not others

Salon · Dec 13, 2024

Trump's war on facts worries scientists

Trump has declared a war on government scientists as he denies climate change and pursues a pro-fossil fuel agenda

Salon · Dec 12, 2024

Why the GOP hates this consumer agency

Elon Musk is leading another effort to "delete" the CFPB. It's complicated.

Salon · Dec 11, 2024

Experts trash Trump citizenship plot

"This goes way beyond overruling Roe... This is quite a bit more of a rethinking of what the country is even about"

Salon · Dec 11, 2024

How Nikki Giovanni taught me to be free

They say never meet your heroes, but I met this architect of Black joy in 2017 and learned an important life lesson

Salon · Dec 10, 2024

James Webb challenges cosmic theories

New research using clearer images from JWST are further complicating the so-called Hubble tension

Salon · Dec 9, 2024