Help keep Salon independent

Troy Farah (page 6)

Email: tfarah@salon.com
X: @filth_filler

Troy Farah is a science and public health journalist whose reporting has appeared in Scientific American, STAT News, Undark, Ars Technica, VICE, Discover Magazine, and others. He co-hosts the drug policy and science podcast Narcotica. His website is troyfarah.com and can be found on Blue Sky at @voidvaporvortex.bsky.social [photo: John Haas]

Girl refusing cigarette (Getty Images/MiljaPhoto)

Today’s teens are less interested in sex, drugs and crime, study reveals

Troy Farah
A boat approaching a small island in the Aegean Sea. (Getty Images/George Pachantouris)

Our human ancestors learned to sail half a million years ago, study suggests

Troy Farah
The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, June 20, 451 AD, between a coalition led by the Roman general Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I against the Huns. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Climate change may have encouraged the Huns to invade Europe

Troy Farah
A female Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and her baby sitting on a tree in Gombe Stream National Park in Western Tanzania (Getty Images/guenterguni)

Climbing trees helped our ancestors evolve to walk on two legs rather than four, study suggests

Troy Farah
Earth with a dunce cap, and a UFO passing by (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Are we too primitive for aliens to bother with us? Some scientists think so

Troy Farah
Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) (Getty Images/Peter Etchells/EyeEm)

Dolphins are beaching themselves. The culprit could be Alzheimer’s disease

Troy Farah
Planet earth frozen in a block of ice (Getty Images/Andrew Bret Wallis)

The Medea Hypothesis: Why some experts say life on Earth sows the seeds of its own destruction

Troy Farah
Danish Defense shows the gas leaking at Nord Stream 2 seen from the Danish F-16 interceptor on Bornholm, Denmark on September 27, 2022. (Danish Defence/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

What really happens when an oil pipeline leaks?

Troy Farah
A forest is incinerated by the Oak Fire near Midpines, northeast of Mariposa, California, on July 23, 2022. (DAVID MCNEW/AFP via Getty Images)

2022 was a historic year for climate change reform — and for natural disasters

Troy Farah
Santa Claus and fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The strange, psychedelic history of Christmas

Troy Farah
Salon's Favorite Books of 2022 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Harper Collins/Penguin Random House/Simon & Schuster/Stanford University Press)

Salon’s favorite books of 2022 — fiction and nonfiction

Erin Keane, Troy Farah, Matthew Rozsa, Ashlie D. Stevens, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Amanda Marcotte, D. Watkins, Kelly McClure, Alison Stine, Hanh Nguyen, Andrew O'Hehir, Chauncey DeVega
Carving of a small cat at the archaeological site of Kom Ombo, Egypt | A house cat with a collar (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How the evolution of domestic cats traces the history of colonization

Troy Farah
Magic mushrooms and psilocybin molecule (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Psychedelic startups are betting on synthetic versions of “magic” mushrooms as the future

Troy Farah
Desert Tortoise (Getty Images/Fuse)

California desert tortoises are hurtling toward extinction. Saving them won’t be easy

Troy Farah
A provoran, visualized by scanning electron microscopy (Tikhonenkov, Mikhailov, Gawryluk, Belyaev, Mathur, Karpov, Zagumyonnyi, Borodina, Prokina, Mylnikov, Aleoshin, and Keeling, Nature)

Microbial “lions” that nibble prey to death form an entirely new branch on the tree of life

Troy Farah
Sonoran Desert Toad (Getty Images/Mark Newman)

For a certain class of toad venom–smoking purists, synthetic toad venom just won’t cut it

Troy Farah
Dry psilocybin magic mushrooms in a plastic bag and wooden bowl (Getty Images/eskymaks)

In defiance of federal drug law, mushroom dispensaries are popping up across North America

Troy Farah
Sign of the World Health Organisation (WHO) at their headquarters in Geneva. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

World Health Organization rebrands ‘monkeypox’ as mpox. Does it matter?

Troy Farah
Doctor's hand holding syringe of vaccine (Getty Images/Francesco Carta fotografo)

Does your immune system need a workout? The bad science behind “immunity debt,” explained

Troy Farah
Scientist looking at blood sample (Getty Images/Thana Prasongsin)

No, COVID is not “airborne AIDS.” But what it does to your immune system is still scary

Troy Farah
A slice of the El Ali meteorite (Courtesy of University of Alberta Meteorite Collection)

Never-before-seen minerals discovered in Somali meteorite

Troy Farah
Galaxy Brain (Getty Images/ANDRZEJ WOJCICKI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Is the brain a quantum computer? A remarkable pair of studies suggests so

Troy Farah
Small sack of coffee (Getty Images/A. Martin UW Photography)

Will wild coffee go extinct from climate change? Botanists say we can still save this crop

Troy Farah
Gretchen Bergman and her family (Photo courtesy of Gretchen Bergman)

Their children struggled with addiction. Now, they’re fighting against the war on drugs

Troy Farah
« Previous
Page: 6
Next »