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Parents share what they learned from watching the animated kids show 'Bluey'

New episodes of the hit Australian animated kids show Bluey dropped on Disney+ this week. NPR's Scott Detrow gets a group of parents together to talk about what they've learned from the show.

July 15, 2023
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  • Fitness & Nutrition

How to start swimming as an adult

Do you know how to swim well enough to save your life? NPR's Life Kit lays out the five basic water safety and swimming skills that can help prevent drowning.

July 15, 2023
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  • Marielle Segarra
Conception's chief scientific officer, Pablo Hurtado, examines very early primordial germ cells under a microscope in a company lab in Berkeley, California.

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  • Health

Startup aims to make lab-grown human eggs, transforming options for creating families

New companies are working to commercialize in vitro gametogenesis, or IVG, a technology that could make human eggs and sperm in the lab from any cell in the body.

July 15, 2023
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  • Rob Stein
Museum visitors explore <em>Cellphone: Unseen Connections </em>at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

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  • Art & Design

How DOES your cellphone work? A new exhibition dials into the science

Turns out wireless networks aren't wireless at all. And light pulses in fiber optic cables carry your voice around the world. A new exhibition explains the science you hold in your hand every day.

July 14, 2023
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  • Neda Ulaby

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  • Education

Student loan forgiveness is on the way for more than 800,000 borrowers

The loan forgiveness comes after past mishandling of income-driven repayment plans, which were designed for low-income borrowers. The move will erase $39 billion in federal student loan debt.

July 14, 2023
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  • Cory Turner
A small sample of asteroid collected by Japan's Hayabusa-2 probe streaks back to Earth in 2020. Researchers now say the sample contains tiny grains of dust from other stars.

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  • Space

Researchers discover stardust sprinkled on a nearby asteroid

The dust, which came from distant stars, is thought to be similar to grains that eventually helped form the planets, including Earth.

July 14, 2023
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
President Biden addresses union workers on June 17 in Philadelphia. His campaign announced fundraising numbers for April through June on Friday.

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  • Politics

President Biden posts 'blockbuster' three-month fundraising total: $72 million

The Biden campaign's self-reported fundraising numbers dwarf second-quarter totals for Republicans Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis.

July 14, 2023
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  • Tamara Keith
Are smartphones safe for tweens? Parents should be aware of the risks, a screen consultant advises.

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  • Health

So your tween wants a smartphone? Read this first

When's the right time to start your child with a phone? Is 12 too young? Here's what a professional screen time consultant tells parents about the risks kids face online.

July 14, 2023
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  • Michaeleen Doucleff
Coca-Cola began blending aspartame into Diet Coke in the 1980s. The artificial sweetener is used in lots of products from diet sodas, to low-sugar jams, yogurts, cereals and chewing gum.

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  • Health

WHO says aspartame is a 'possible carcinogen.' The FDA disagrees

Moderate consumption of aspartame is OK, scientists say. But heavy consumers may want to reduce their intake. The WHO says aspartame may "possibly" cause cancer. The FDA questions the evidence.

July 13, 2023
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  • Allison Aubrey
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  • Sports

Older athletes find competition and community at the National Senior Games

More than 11,000 athletes from across the U.S. have flocked to Pittsburgh this week to compete in the National Senior Games. The Olympics-style competition celebrates staying active and healthy aging.

July 13, 2023
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  • Jillian Forstadt
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the latest member of the Kennedy dynasty to run for president, regularly shares a dizzying range of falsehoods and conspiracy theories.

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  • Politics

RFK Jr. is building a presidential campaign around conspiracy theories

The latest member of the Kennedy dynasty to run for president regularly shares a dizzying range of falsehoods and conspiracy theories on podcasts and at other campaign appearances.

July 13, 2023
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  • Shannon Bond
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  • National

The latest in Phoenix's efforts to remove biggest homeless encampment after lawsuit

A lawsuit required Phoenix officials to show they've making progress clearing the city's largest homeless encampment. Businesses and homeless people have differing opinions.

July 13, 2023
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  • Kirsten Dorman
Researchers found that plastic debris sits atop almost 92% of the reefs they studied, including some of the most remote and uninhabited ones. Here in Oman, plastic floats past an otherwise healthy reef.

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  • Environment

Plastic is suffocating coral reefs — and it's not just bottles and bags

A new study takes a comprehensive look at the plastic debris smothering reefs, where in the ocean it's more prevalent — and how to deal with the problem.

July 13, 2023
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  • Ari Daniel
A person pumps gas at a BP gas station in Brooklyn, N.Y., on June 12. Annual inflation eased to 3% in June, the lowest in over two years, and there's hope that it could go lower.

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  • Economy

Why inflation is losing its punch — and why things could get even better

Annual inflation fell to 3% in June, the lowest since March 2021. That probably won't stop the Federal Reserve from raising rates again, but this month's expected hike could be the last.

July 13, 2023
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  • Scott Horsley
A man who was at the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has sued Fox News for defamation. Here, a woman walks by the Fox News headquarters in New York in April.

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  • Media

Fox News hit with another defamation lawsuit — this one over Jan. 6 allegations

Trump supporter and Jan. 6 protester Ray Epps sued Fox News over statements by former star Tucker Carlson that placed Epps at the center of the violent siege on the U.S. Capitol.

July 12, 2023
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  • David Folkenflik
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