Ousted CDC director to testify that Health Secretary RFK Jr. pushed her to ethics breach on vaccines

Susan Monarez, who was fired weeks into the job, is set to appear before the Senate’s health committee to discuss her dismissal. Fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Susan Monarez will tell senators that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pressured her to endorse new vaccine recommendations before seeing scientific evidence, according to…

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New Research Shows Gut Cells Communicate Directly with the Brain

This episode was made possible by the support of Yakult and produced independently by Scientific American’s board of editors. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. People often talk about having “gut feelings,” but new research suggests there may be more to the idiom than we thought. Scientists are finding that specialized…

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Robert Redford death: What happened to Robert Redford and everything to know about his career, marriages, and children | Explainer

Robert Redford was one of the biggest movie stars of his generation, with a string of hit films and awards to his name. Credited with putting the town of Sundance, Utah, on the map thanks to the eponymous film festival he started, he was also a recognised environmentalist years before it was trendy. But above…

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