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The company's spacecraft returned to its Texas launchpad in dramatic fashion — by carefully lowering itself until two metal arms attached to the launch tower could secure it.
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Local and state officials in Colorado say recent floods have outstripped their ability to respond. They're worried about federal response after Trump delayed flood aid for political reasons in 2025.
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The regular news roundup with NPR's science podcast Short Wave covers a possible use for AI in emergency rooms, a distant planet and the link between cybersecurity and Daylight Saving Time.
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The SS United States broke trans-Atlantic speed records. On Wednesday, it was sunk off the Florida coast and will become a diving destination and home for marine life. -
For more than 60 years, researchers at UVA have identified children who, from the time they were toddlers, said they had been been someone else. -
A potentially record-breaking El Niño could bring extreme weather across the country as the climate pattern approaches its peak.
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A ship bigger than the Titanic is being sunk off the coast of Florida to make an artificial reef.
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Scientists have studied plenty of dinosaur bones, eggs and footprints. Now, some think they've found their strongest evidence yet of dinosaur blood.
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Brain scientists set up "gladiator style" cage matches for mice — and found that simply observing fighting matches can rewire a mouse's brain to resemble those who actually fought.
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A proposal to repeal the Roadless Rule could open more of Alaska's Tongass National Forest to road construction and logging.
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Health clinics and organizations advocating for poor and working-class Nebraskans say the rollout of Medicaid work requirements has been rife with problems. -
NASA needs more recruits in order to return to the moon after being gone more than half a century. -
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Alex Fogg, Natural Resources Chief of Okaloosa County, Florida, about efforts to deliberately sink the SS United States and create an artificial reef in its wreckage.
