It was a travesty—two travesties, actually, separate but inextricably linked. In May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, a…
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When you have fine hair, achieving your dream wedding look can feel like an uphill battle. You’ve probably saved dozens of voluminous Pinterest hairstyles only to find they fall flat…
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The morning of April 28, 2004, started like the rest of Jeff Turner’s mornings in Iraq. Breakfast in the chow hall, a walk across the grounds to his station. The…
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Updated at 3:38 p.m. ET on May 31, 2025 Solving HIV vaccination—a puzzle that scientists have been tackling for decades without success—could be like cracking the code to a safe.…
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In contrast to his aging predecessor, President Trump appears robust and energetic. Yet, like Joe Biden, Donald Trump is an elderly man, and he will become the oldest sitting president…
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The United States has, for 70 years, been fighting a continuous aerial war against the New World screwworm, a parasite that eats animals alive: cow, pig, deer, dog, even human.…
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We hate to break it to you, but your split ends didn’t just appear overnight. They’re the result of a series of seemingly harmless habits that, when repeated daily, quietly…
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has had a long love affair with junk science, and as secretary of Health and Human Services, he has embraced it once more, most brazenly to…
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Photographs by Evan Jenkins This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. A Wednesday morning in May is a strange time…
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Long before he joined the FDA to run the center that regulates vaccines, Vinay Prasad argued against COVID shots for kids. Among his many criticisms of the United States’ approach…