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Parkinson's disease appears to disrupt a brain network involved in everything from movement to memory.
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The physics of the spiral pass have baffled physicists and football fans for decades.
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Scientists have placed two seismometers 8000 feet below the ice cap at the South Pole to measure earthquakes and support tsunami alerts.
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A collapsed sewer line, about 8 miles from the White House, pumped 368 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of wastewater into the Potomac. Repairs could take longer than previously expected. -
A new social media platform launched last week and it's got Silicon Valley buzzing, but it's not for humans. Moltbook is a platform for AI agents to talk to other AI agents.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to writer Matt Klein about how to win back our attention in an age of infinite information.
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The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and photos taken by CIA officers. But it was discontinued this week. -
The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025. -
As more countries look to follow Australia's lead and introduce social media bans for children, we ask whether Australia's legislation is working.
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Big tech companies saw more than $1 trillion wiped off their market value this week after Amazon, Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft together forecast capital expenditures of $650 billion in 2026, for new data centers and gear related to artificial intelligence.
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NPR's Short Wave talks about babies' perceptions of rhythm, how sleep may help us solve puzzles and why snakes may be able to fast so long.
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Italy's Winter Olympics promised sustainability. But in Cortina, environmentalists warn the Games could scar these mountains for decades. -
As South Carolina's outbreak grows to 876 confirmed cases, vaccinations in the state surged in January. Cases have also been reported in two ICE detention facilities.
