Health

A Rare Sign of Hope as Mountain Gorillas Welcome Two Sets of Twins in Africa

In this week’s newsletter: Once close to extinction, the species is rebounding due to years of conservation work

Benjamina Ebuehi’s Sweet and Salty Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Miso brings a level of mouthwatering complexity to these otherwise simple cookies

Experience: my house was taken over by 70,000 bees

My daughter complained of monsters in her closet – at night she could hear a hum in the wall

Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups

New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps, in Uganda, turning on itself

As RFK Jr allies hailed Mississippi’s rollback of strict school vaccine rules, whooping cough surged and a baby died

The campaign to change the rules was years in the making, orchestrated in part by two men with close ties to US health secretary RFK Jr

Couples may need more than $400,000 to cover health-care costs in retirement, even with Medicare

A 65-year-old couple may need about $400,000 to have a 90% chance of covering health costs over the course of retirement.

My father-in-law lives with my young family but I don’t want to ‘sandwich parent’. What should I do?

You don’t have to compromise your or your child’s wellbeing, advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith writes. Whatever happens, you need better information going forward

US had hottest March on record as nation faced ‘unprecedented’ heat

The continental US registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, according to Noaa data

US fertility rate hits record low

The United States’s fertility rate fell to a new record low in 2025, extending a nearly two-decade trend, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday.

First Major 2026 Atlantic Hurricane Forecast Predicts Slightly Below-Average Season

April 9, 2026 / 10:00 AM EDT / CBS News

Last month was hottest March on record for continental U.S.

Washington — March's persistent unseasonable heat was so intense that the continental United States registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, according to federal weather data. And the next year or so looks to turn the dial up on global warmth even more, as some forecasts predict a brewing El Niño will reach superstrength.

From soups and greens to roots, how to survive the ‘hungry gap’

The weeks before the full spring bounty arrives are a perfect time to bring a lighter approach to winter crops, and make the most of frozen fruit and spring greens