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Lasers shine as part of an advanced atomic clock at NIST. Precise measurements of the colors of light emitted by atoms are essential to everything from atomic clocks to medical devices.

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  • Science

Trump cuts threaten a measurement lab critical for advanced chips and medical devices

The Atomic Spectroscopy Group provides standardized measurements used across wide swaths of science and industry. The Trump administration plans to cut it.

March 26, 2025
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
Jeep Wrangler 4Xe plug-in hybrids displayed on the sales lot at Hilltop Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram in Richmond, California.

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  • Business

EV buyers who missed out on their tax credits now have a fix from the IRS

Some car owners couldn't claim the EV tax credit for vehicles purchased in 2024 because dealers skipped a key sales reporting step. The IRS is now offering a fix.

March 26, 2025
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  • Camila Domonoske
Trish, a juvenile gray seal, was one of the seals featured in a new study that looks at the mammals' oxygen-sensing abilities.

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  • Science

Why don't diving seals drown? Scientists finally have an answer

New research suggests seals sense oxygen levels in their blood to know when to come up for air.

March 26, 2025
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  • Jonathan Lambert
Bear Michal sleeps on the ground at Bear Sanctuary Müritz in Germany in May 2015.

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  • Animals

March Madness is underway. So is March Napness, the tournament for hibernating bears

A handful of rescued bears in Europe are competing in March Napness, a bracket-style tournament to see what bear can stay in hibernation the longest.

March 26, 2025
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  • Kaity Kline
A partial solar eclipse is seen as the sun rises behind the U.S. Capitol building on June 10, 2021.

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  • National

Parts of America will experience a partial solar eclipse this weekend

The partial solar eclipse will be visible in various locations in the U.S. Northeast.

March 26, 2025
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  • Chandelis Duster
Scott Rabinowitz, president of Grand Resources, stands near a pump jack in Sperry, Okla., on March 20, 2024.

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Why a tiny bit of oil can be a big deal

More than three-quarters of U.S. wells make just 6% of the country's oil. They're called marginal wells because of their small output. But they're a big deal to oil producers and environmentalists.

March 26, 2025
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  • Camila Domonoske
An assortment of aromas fill the air at the District Cannabis grow facility in Hagerstown, Md.

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  • Health

Lavender, citrus and candy: Weed's signature aroma changes with the times

A tour of a grow facility in Maryland reveals the wide variety of scents from different cannabis strains.

March 25, 2025
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  • Pien Huang
NASA engineers work alongside the tip of a solid rocket booster for the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) in NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in February.

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NASA website axes a pledge to land a woman and a person of color on the moon

In deference to President Trump's anti-DEI order, the space agency has removed a promise to send the "the first woman, first person of color" to walk on the moon aboard the Artemis III mission.

March 25, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman
What would you do if you had more hours in a day? Here's how to carve out time for your interests and passions — even when you have a lot of responsibilities.

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  • Science

Feeling scatterbrained? 5 ways to focus your attention

What would you do if you had more hours in a day? Here's how to carve out time for your interests and passions — even when you have a lot of responsibilities.

March 25, 2025
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  • Malaka Gharib
Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, speaks at a conference in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 26, 2015. Love died on March 23, 2025, from an aggressive type of brain cancer called glioblastoma.

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  • Science

Doctors still seeking cure for brain cancer that struck former Utah Rep. Mia Love

Mia Love, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, died three years after being diagnosed with glioblastoma, a brain cancer that is nearly always fatal.

March 25, 2025
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  • Jon Hamilton
Getting on a Zoom call? A new study finds that your audio quality may can positively or negatively affect how others perceive you.

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  • Science

Speaking into a microphone? Your audio quality can impact the way people view you

A new study shows that the quality of a person's microphone in a video meeting affects how the speaker is perceived by others.

March 24, 2025
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Volunteers Olly De Almeida (left), Jordan Bordenave (right) and Rosemary White (far right) plant a tree in front of Tribble Condor's (center) house in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward. The project was funded by a federal grant terminated in February.

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  • Climate

Is planting trees 'DEI'? Trump administration cuts nationwide tree-planting effort

The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.

March 22, 2025
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  • Eva Tesfaye
Yale cognitive neuroscientist Nick Turk-Browne works with a baby and parent during a brain scan.

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  • Science

Why don't we remember being babies? Brain scans reveal new clues

Why can't we remember when we were babies? Scientists who scanned infants' brains found that they do make memories. The findings suggest these memories may still exist, but are inaccessible to us.

March 21, 2025
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  • Ari Daniel
A Fiji Island iguana is seen at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C.  A new study suggests these iguanas reached the tropical island by crossing thousands of miles of ocean.

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  • Science

How land-loving iguanas from North America may have ended up in Fiji

A new study suggests iguanas reached Fiji by rafting around 5,000 miles from North America.

March 20, 2025
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  • Jonathan Lambert
This multi-wavelength image from NASA shows a universe full of galaxies that are various shapes, colors and sizes. Most are small while a handful are somewhat larger. A few stars are also scattered across the image.

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  • National

Dark energy is weakening and the universe could (eventually) collapse, study says

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is studying dark energy and the accelerated expansion of the universe.

March 20, 2025
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  • Chandelis Duster
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