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Even within the freak show that is Donald Trump’s cabinet, the health and human services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has a singular knack for dominating…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina became one of the deadliest storms ever to hit the U.S. After…

Like many other meteorologists around the U.S. Gulf Coast on the morning of August 26, 2005, Alan Gerard was monitoring the latest computer model forecasts for…

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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina drowned New Orleans and notably the city’s low-income Lower Ninth Ward. The flooding killed almost 1,400 people. The levees and…

Darren McKinney, the field operations director of lowernine.org, takes a break during a shift repairing a neighbor’s home in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward on 20…

New data from the CDC suggests a grim back-to-school tradition emerging: in 2024, kindergarten vaccination rates declined for the fifth consecutive year. Meanwhile, vaccine exemptions reached…