Police are still investigating what exactly prompted a gunman to kill four people in a Manhattan office building yesterday evening, but perhaps the clearest aspect of his motive is the…

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Americans have a long history of enduring heat waves by going outside. In a 1998 essay for The New Yorker, the author Arthur Miller described urbanites’ Depression-era coping mechanisms: People…

Winter may feel like a breath of fresh air after a sweaty summer, but your hair might disagree. Across Australia and New Zealand, the colder months bring dry air, indoor…

Every summer, there is a brief window—call it August—when the produce is exquisite. The cherries are at their best, as are the peaches, plums, and nectarines. The watermelon is sweet.…

For decades, countries around the world have held up the United States’s rigorous approach to vaccine policy as a global ideal. But in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health…

Mark and David Geier were a father-and-son team of researchers who operated on the fringes of the scientific establishment. They were known for promoting a controversial treatment for autism, and…

Your suitcase is packed, your itinerary’s set, and your passport’s in hand. What seems to be missing? It can’t be your skincare because you bought multiple minis with you. Oh…

For all of the eons that animal life has existed on Earth, the sun has been there, too. And for all of those eons, animal life has had only one…

The early aughts were the worst possible kind of golden age. Tans were inescapable—on Britney Spears’s midriff, on the flexing biceps outside of Abercrombie & Fitch stores. The Jersey Shore…