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Amanda Vicente Santos, a bat disease ecologist at the University of Oklahoma, inspects the base of a guanacaste tree in Belize where she intends to trap vampire bats later in the night. Scientists say they've developed an alternate method of tracking biodiversity that relies on the DNA that animals release into the environment, known as eDNA.

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Scientists want to track the world's biodiversity using DNA in the air

Scientists have found a way to sample DNA out of the air on a large scale — making it possible to one day track the health and well being of all kinds of species around the world.

May 22, 2025
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  • Ari Daniel
The first Alzheimer's blood test cleared by the Food And Drug Administration is set to make diagnosis more accessible and accurate — and change the way doctors treat the disease.

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  • Science

First FDA-cleared Alzheimer's blood test could make diagnoses faster, more accurate

The first Alzheimer's blood test cleared by the Food And Drug Administration is poised to change the way doctors diagnose and treat the disease.

May 21, 2025
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  • Jon Hamilton
President Trump speaks alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office on May 20, 2025, announcing plans for the "Golden Dome," a national ballistic and cruise missile defense system.

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  • National Security

Trump unveils ambitious and expensive plans for 'Golden Dome' missile defense

The plan includes a vast array of space-based sensors and interceptors.

May 21, 2025
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
Adriana Smith remains on life-support at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

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A brain-dead woman's pregnancy raises questions about Georgia's abortion law

A Georgia woman declared brain dead is being kept on life support because she is pregnant. It raises complicated legal questions about restrictive abortion laws in Georgia and other states.

May 21, 2025
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  • Sam Gringlas
Chicks mill around a stall at the First State Animal Center and SPCA on Friday in Camden, Del. They are among 12,000 chicks that were left abandoned in a U.S. Postal Service truck for three days.

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  • National

12,000 chicks found abandoned in postal truck raise concerns about animal shipping

A Delaware animal shelter is working to find new homes for 8,000 surviving chicks that were left abandoned in a U.S. Postal Service truck for three days. Another 4,000 of the animals died.

May 20, 2025
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  • Lydia Calitri
An illustration provided by NASA depicts Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth.

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  • Space

A broken thruster jeopardized Voyager 1, but engineers executed a remote fix

NASA mission controllers raced against time to find a solution before a crucial ground-based radio used for communicating with Voyagers 1 and 2, went offline for upgrades.

May 20, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman
In this still from a wildlife camera, a one-to-two-day-old howler monkey infant clings to the body of a young capuchin monkey. Scientists say the capuchins are likely kidnapping the howler babies for their own amusement.

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  • Science

Researchers puzzle over rash of baby monkey kidnappings

Young, male capuchin monkeys have started kidnapping the babies of nearby howler monkeys. Why? Maybe boredom.

May 19, 2025
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Flamingos are filter feeders that live off shrimp, algae and other nibbles in wetlands around the world.

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  • Science

Scientists have figured out why flamingos are such weird eaters

Flamingos look silly when they eat, but new research suggests they're actually being smart.

May 19, 2025
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
Mud and debris as atmospheric rivers dumped rain in Studio City, Calif., in 2024. Forecasting heavy rain requires measurements from satellites, doppler radar, ocean buoys and other instruments, most of which are operated by the federal government.

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  • Climate

Where does your weather forecast come from?

Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorologist on TV, most of the underlying information comes from the federal government.

May 19, 2025
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  • Rebecca Hersher
A reconstruction of Mosura fentoni, an extinct sea creature from more than 500 million years ago.

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  • Science

Paleontologists discover a 500-million-year-old, 3-eyed predator

Fossils of the underwater predator shed new light on biodiversity from the Cambrian period.

May 17, 2025
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  • Alana Wise
A trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

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  • Business

Why UnitedHealth's terrible year is dragging down the Dow

The health care giant's shares are down more than 50% in the last month. That's hurting the powerful U.S. stock-market index.

May 16, 2025
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  • Maria Aspan
A South Korean female free diver jumps into the sea from a boat off the coast of Jeju Island on Jan. 15, 2022. New research has found that these women, known as Haenyeo, have specific genetic adaptations connected to cold tolerance and blood pressure.

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  • Science

The all-female free divers of Jeju Island have a 'superpower' in their genes

The all-female Korean Haenyeo divers show genetic adaptations to cold-water diving involving their blood pressure and cold tolerance. It's "like they have a superpower," says one of the researchers.

May 15, 2025
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  • Ari Daniel
A three-dimensional map of the seabed shows the shape of the caldera of the Axial Seamount volcano. Warm colors show shallower depths and cool colors are deeper.

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  • Science

Marine life's latest hotspot could be an underwater volcano primed to erupt off Oregon

A researcher monitoring Axial Seamount, 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, says the eruption is expected to happen before the year is over.

May 15, 2025
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  • Ayana Archie
Former UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty testifies before the Senate Finance Committee in May 2024, over a massive data breach at his company's Change Healthcare. UnitedHealth's business and reputational problems have mounted since then, and Witty resigned "for personal reasons" on Tuesday. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

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  • Business

UnitedHealth Group abruptly replaces CEO Andrew Witty, deepening a terrible year

The health care conglomerate is facing mounting financial problems – and ongoing consumer anger over high costs and denied claims.

May 13, 2025
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  • Maria Aspan
The planets Venus (bottom) and Jupiter are seen in the sky above Matthews, N.C., in 2015. A Soviet probe launched more than 50 years ago — and never reached Venus, its intended destination — likely crash landed in the Indian Ocean on Saturday.

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  • Space

A Soviet-era space probe crashed back to Earth after more than 50 years in orbit

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space in 1972 on a quest to reach Venus, but its journey was scuttled by an apparent engine malfunction.

May 12, 2025
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  • Joe Hernandez
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