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NIH cuts spotlight a hidden crisis facing patients with experimental brain implants
Read full article: NIH cuts spotlight a hidden crisis facing patients with experimental brain implantsPeople with experimental brain implants often turn to the treatment as a last resort, hoping to improve their health when everything else has failed.
A science journal pulled a controversial study about a bizarre life form against the authors' wishes
Read full article: A science journal pulled a controversial study about a bizarre life form against the authors' wishesA scientific journal has retracted a controversial study that hinted at the possibility of a bizarre life form.
Trump's AI plan calls for massive data centers. Here's how it may affect energy in the US
Read full article: Trump's AI plan calls for massive data centers. Here's how it may affect energy in the USPresident Donald Trump’s plan to boost artificial intelligence and build data centers across the U.S. could speed up a building boom that was already expected to strain the nation’s ability to power it.
Philanthropist Wendy Schmidt insists science and immersive media can inspire action for the planet
Read full article: Philanthropist Wendy Schmidt insists science and immersive media can inspire action for the planetPhilanthropist Wendy Schmidt and her husband, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, have long insisted that the scientific advancements they fund be shared widely and for the planet's protection.
A 100,000-year-old burial site in Israel is changing what we know about early humans
Read full article: A 100,000-year-old burial site in Israel is changing what we know about early humansArchaeologists in central Israel are excavating one of the world's oldest-known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years.
Greenpeace hails Italian court ruling allowing climate case against energy company Eni to continue
Read full article: Greenpeace hails Italian court ruling allowing climate case against energy company Eni to continueItaly’s highest court has ruled that a lawsuit brought by climate activists against Italian energy giant Eni and its government shareholders can go ahead.
Bees have some ways to cope with a warming Earth, but researchers fear for their future
Read full article: Bees have some ways to cope with a warming Earth, but researchers fear for their futureAs global temperatures rise under climate change, the bees responsible for pollinating many crops are under increasing stress and scientists are trying to understand how they are affected.
Harvard seeks billions in funding restored at a pivotal hearing in its standoff with Trump
Read full article: Harvard seeks billions in funding restored at a pivotal hearing in its standoff with TrumpHarvard University has appeared in federal court, challenging $2.6 billion in funding cuts by the Trump administration.
Discovery 'Shark Week' has breaching great whites, looks back at 'Jaws' and starts with some dancing
Read full article: Discovery 'Shark Week' has breaching great whites, looks back at 'Jaws' and starts with some dancingDiscovery Channel’s “Shark Week” kicks off with a unique twist this year: “Dancing with Sharks.”.
Alaska is the most earthquake-prone state. Here is why Wednesday's earthquake was notable
Read full article: Alaska is the most earthquake-prone state. Here is why Wednesday's earthquake was notableWednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of powerful quakes within the last five years.
The grueling 135-mile journey of a 66-year-old runner through one of the hottest places on Earth
Read full article: The grueling 135-mile journey of a 66-year-old runner through one of the hottest places on EarthFor 37 years in a searing California desert, runners from across the globe have embarked on a 135-mile race through one of the hottest places on Earth.
Healthy babies born in Britain after scientists used DNA from three people to avoid genetic disease
Read full article: Healthy babies born in Britain after scientists used DNA from three people to avoid genetic diseaseResearchers report that eight healthy babies were born with the help of an experimental technique that uses DNA from three people to help mothers avoid passing rare diseases to their children.
Largest piece of Mars on Earth fetches $5.3 million at auction, but young dinosaur steals the show
Read full article: Largest piece of Mars on Earth fetches $5.3 million at auction, but young dinosaur steals the showThe largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth has sold for just over $5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York.
A look inside a lab making the advanced fuel to power growing US nuclear energy ambitions
Read full article: A look inside a lab making the advanced fuel to power growing US nuclear energy ambitionsAt Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, a half-dozen workers are making what appear to be gray billiard balls.
Iceland volcano eruption forces evacuation of town and iconic geothermal spa
Read full article: Iceland volcano eruption forces evacuation of town and iconic geothermal spaA volcanic eruption in southwestern Iceland has once again forced the evacuation of local residents and tourists at the internationally known Blue Lagoon geothermal spa.
America's only rare earth producer gets a boost from Apple and Pentagon agreements
Read full article: America's only rare earth producer gets a boost from Apple and Pentagon agreementsMP Materials, the operator of the only rare earths mine in the United States, has signed a $500 million deal with Apple.
Private spaceflight ends with a Pacific splashdown for astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary
Read full article: Private spaceflight ends with a Pacific splashdown for astronauts from India, Poland and HungaryThe first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary are back on Earth.
Astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary head back to Earth after private space station mission
Read full article: Astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary head back to Earth after private space station missionThe International Space Station's first visitors from India, Poland and Hungary are headed back to Earth.
Texas leads nation in flood deaths due to geography, size and population
Read full article: Texas leads nation in flood deaths due to geography, size and populationA study puts the spotlight on Texas as the leading U.S. state by far for flood-related deaths, with more than 1,000 of them from 1959 to 2019.
Tired of put-downs, Tennessee town corrects the record with play about the Scopes trial it hosted
Read full article: Tired of put-downs, Tennessee town corrects the record with play about the Scopes trial it hostedA small town in Tennessee courted national publicity a century ago when it recruited a local teacher to challenge a state law banning the teaching of evolution.
A Denver dino museum makes a find deep under own parking lot. Like 'a hole in one from the moon.'
Read full article: A Denver dino museum makes a find deep under own parking lot. Like 'a hole in one from the moon.'A dinosaur fossil has been found in an unlikely place, a hole drilled under the parking lot of a Colorado museum where dinosaur skeletons are on display.
US has reclosed its southern border after a flesh-eating parasite is seen further north in Mexico
Read full article: US has reclosed its southern border after a flesh-eating parasite is seen further north in MexicoThe U.S. has closed its southern border again to livestock imports, saying that a flesh-eating parasite has moved further north in Mexico than previously reported.
A century after a man was convicted of teaching evolution, the debate on religion in schools rages
Read full article: A century after a man was convicted of teaching evolution, the debate on religion in schools ragesThe 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on religion in public schools.
Trump administration pulls back on plans to rewrite Biden-era asbestos ban
Read full article: Trump administration pulls back on plans to rewrite Biden-era asbestos banThe Trump administration is dropping plans to allow continued use of the last type of asbestos legally allowed in U.S. manufacturing after an outcry from asbestos opponents.
'Lord of the Rings' director backs long shot de-extinction plan, starring New Zealand's lost moa
Read full article: 'Lord of the Rings' director backs long shot de-extinction plan, starring New Zealand's lost moaFilmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech company known for its grand and controversial plans to bring back lost species.
Residents wear masks as volcanic ash blankets villages near erupting Indonesian volcano
Read full article: Residents wear masks as volcanic ash blankets villages near erupting Indonesian volcanoResidents are wearing masks to protect themselves from thick volcanic ash that is blanketing several Indonesian villages as rumbling Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki erupted for a second straight day.
Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough for tidal energy
Read full article: Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough for tidal energySubmerged in about 40 meters of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides and generate electricity.
Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano erupts and sends searing-hot ash miles high
Read full article: Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano erupts and sends searing-hot ash miles highIndonesia’s rumbling Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki has erupted twice and sent clouds of searing gas miles into the sky while tons of ash fell on villages and flights were cancelled.
EPA puts on leave 139 employees who spoke out against policies under Trump
Read full article: EPA puts on leave 139 employees who spoke out against policies under TrumpThe Environmental Protection Agency has placed on administrative leave 139 employees who signed a so-called “declaration of dissent” against the federal agency's policies.
The US plans to begin breeding billions of flies to fight a pest. Here is how it will work
Read full article: The US plans to begin breeding billions of flies to fight a pest. Here is how it will workThe U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.
Iran assesses the damage and lashes out after Israeli and US strikes damage its nuclear sites
Read full article: Iran assesses the damage and lashes out after Israeli and US strikes damage its nuclear sitesIran is assessing the damage and lashing out over the American and Israeli airstrikes that damaged its nuclear sites.
NOAA delays the cutoff of key satellite data for hurricane forecasting
Read full article: NOAA delays the cutoff of key satellite data for hurricane forecastingThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it is delaying by one month the planned cutoff of satellite data that helps forecasters track hurricanes.
EPA employees put names to 'declaration of dissent' over agency moves under Trump
Read full article: EPA employees put names to 'declaration of dissent' over agency moves under TrumpA group of Environmental Protection Agency employees has published a declaration of dissent to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin over the agency's leadership and policies.
Takeaways from interviews with families forever changed by diseases that vaccines can prevent
Read full article: Takeaways from interviews with families forever changed by diseases that vaccines can preventIn the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America.
Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families
Read full article: Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these familiesIn the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America.
The government cuts key data used in hurricane forecasting, and experts sound an alarm
Read full article: The government cuts key data used in hurricane forecasting, and experts sound an alarmWeather experts are warning that hurricane forecasts will be severely hampered by the upcoming cutoff of key data from U.S. Department of Defense satellites.
International Space Station welcomes its first astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary
Read full article: International Space Station welcomes its first astronauts from India, Poland and HungaryThe first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary have arrived at the International Space Station, ferried there by SpaceX on a private flight.
Israel killed at least 14 scientists in an unprecedented attack on Iran's nuclear know-how
Read full article: Israel killed at least 14 scientists in an unprecedented attack on Iran's nuclear know-howIsrael’s tally of war damage it has wrought on Iran includes the targeted killings of at least 14 nuclear scientists and experts.
Early-season heat dome brings highest temperatures in years to parts of Eastern US
Read full article: Early-season heat dome brings highest temperatures in years to parts of Eastern USAn intense and nearly historic weather pattern is cooking much of America in a dangerous heat dome this week with triple-digit heat that hasn’t been seen in some places in more than a decade.
NASA spacecraft around the moon photographs the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander
Read full article: NASA spacecraft around the moon photographs the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar landerA NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander.
UK lawmakers back a bill to allow terminally ill adults to end their lives
Read full article: UK lawmakers back a bill to allow terminally ill adults to end their livesU.K. lawmakers have backed a bill to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives in a historic vote in Parliament that takes it a step nearer to becoming law.
Government says Harvard researcher accused of smuggling frog embryos brought 'biological materials'
Read full article: Government says Harvard researcher accused of smuggling frog embryos brought 'biological materials'Attorneys argued over whether a Harvard University researcher accused of smuggling frog embryos brought “biological materials” into the U.S. Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist conducting cancer research for Harvard Medical School, appeared in Massachusetts federal court Wednesday for a probable cause hearing, where government and defense attorneys argued over whether she brought “biological materials” into the U.S. She was returning from a vacation from France in February when she was...
The US plans to open a fly factory in Texas as part of its fight against a flesh-eating parasite
Read full article: The US plans to open a fly factory in Texas as part of its fight against a flesh-eating parasiteThe U.S. government plans to open what amounts to a fly factory by the end of the year to breed millions of the insects in Texas near the border with Mexico as part of an effort to keep a flesh-eating parasite from infesting American cattle.
Early humans survived in a range of extreme environments before global migration, study says
Read full article: Early humans survived in a range of extreme environments before global migration, study saysHumans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.
Had a belly full. Could Chinese swimmers have eaten 5 kilos of food en route to failed doping test?
Read full article: Had a belly full. Could Chinese swimmers have eaten 5 kilos of food en route to failed doping test?The head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency told senators that Chinese swimmers would have had to ingest around 11 pounds, or five kilograms of food to test for the amounts of the performance enhancer that resulted in the much-debated positive drug tests from 2021 that were later disregarded.
Volcanic eruption in Indonesia forces evacuations and flight cancelations
Read full article: Volcanic eruption in Indonesia forces evacuations and flight cancelationsIndonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki has erupted with giant ash and smoke plumes again after forcing evacuations of villages and flight cancelations, including to and from the resort island of Bali.
Eruption of Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano creates ash plume visible 90 miles away
Read full article: Eruption of Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano creates ash plume visible 90 miles awayMount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano in south-central Indonesia has erupted, spewing towering columns of hot ash.
Judge rules some NIH grant cuts illegal, saying he's never seen such discrimination in 40 years
Read full article: Judge rules some NIH grant cuts illegal, saying he's never seen such discrimination in 40 yearsA federal judge says it was illegal for the Trump administration to cancel several hundred research grants issued by the National Institutes of Health.
A look at the first artificial solar eclipses created by two European satellites
Read full article: A look at the first artificial solar eclipses created by two European satellitesA pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying.
Space station leak concerns will delay visit by astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary
Read full article: Space station leak concerns will delay visit by astronauts from India, Poland and HungaryA chartered spaceflight for India, Poland and Hungary's first astronauts in decades has been delayed indefinitely because of leak concerns at the International Space Station.
A grassland bird eavesdrops on prairie dog calls to keep itself safe from predators
Read full article: A grassland bird eavesdrops on prairie dog calls to keep itself safe from predatorsNew research says long-billed curlews listen to alarm barks from prairie dog colonies to protect themselves from predators.
Trump EPA moves to repeal climate rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from US power plants
Read full article: Trump EPA moves to repeal climate rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from US power plantsThe Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to eliminate rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas.
Scientists discover 100 new ribbon worm species -- and counting
Read full article: Scientists discover 100 new ribbon worm species -- and countingA new study documents the discovery of over 100 ribbon worm species off the coast of Oman, most of which are new to science. With gruesome methods of devouring their prey, ribbon worms can take down other worms, clams, crabs, amphipods and even fish.
Video shows dolphin calf birth and first breath at Chicago zoo. Mom's friend helped
Read full article: Video shows dolphin calf birth and first breath at Chicago zoo. Mom's friend helpedA bottlenose dolphin at the Brookfield Zoo Chicago gave birth to a calf early Saturday morning with the help of a fellow mom.
UN nuclear agency members draft resolution accusing Iran of failing to meet obligations
Read full article: UN nuclear agency members draft resolution accusing Iran of failing to meet obligationsWestern nations are planning to table a resolution at an IAEA meeting that will find Iran in non-compliance with its so-called safeguards obligations for the first time in 20 years, a senior western diplomat said.
Cutting off rhinos' horns is a contentious last resort to stop poaching. A new study found it works
Read full article: Cutting off rhinos' horns is a contentious last resort to stop poaching. A new study found it worksA study published in the academic journal Science has found that cutting off the horns of rhinos in Africa leads to a reduction in poaching of the endangered species.
Dilly Dally the sea turtle returns to the ocean after flipper amputation
Read full article: Dilly Dally the sea turtle returns to the ocean after flipper amputationAn adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally is back in the Atlantic Ocean, months after having a front flipper amputated at a Florida turtle hospital.
What is Fusarium graminearum, the fungus US authorities say was smuggled in from China?
Read full article: What is Fusarium graminearum, the fungus US authorities say was smuggled in from China?Federal prosecutors have charged two Chinese researchers with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the U.S. last summer.
A Virginia museum found 4 Confederate soldiers' remains. It's trying to identify them
Read full article: A Virginia museum found 4 Confederate soldiers' remains. It's trying to identify themArchaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.
US says it broke up effort to bring toxic fungus to Michigan lab from China
Read full article: US says it broke up effort to bring toxic fungus to Michigan lab from ChinaTwo scientists from China have been charged in Michigan in what the FBI says was an effort to bring a toxic fungus to the U.S. Investigators say the pathogen can attack wheat, barley, maize and rice and sicken livestock and people.
A long-running experiment finds a tiny particle is still acting weird
Read full article: A long-running experiment finds a tiny particle is still acting weirdFinal results from a long-running U.S.-based experiment show a tiny particle continues to act strangely -- but that’s still good news for the laws of physics as we know them.