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Duke Energy's Marshall Steam Station coal power plant operates near Mooresville, N.C.

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  • Climate

Editor's Note: EPA says it will roll back climate rules. That could prove complicated

Announcing big changes to environmental rules doesn't undo facts on the ground overnight. Instead, EPA's announcement is the first step in what is likely to be a lengthy process to remake the rules and policies it targeted.

March 13, 2025
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  • Neela Banerjee
A solar plant in Mona, Utah. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says solar will account for just over half of new power generation that will get built in the U.S. this year.

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  • Climate

America's clean-energy industry is growing despite Trump's attacks. At least for now

Clean energy is crucial to meet rising U.S. electricity demand, according to industry analysts and executives. But the Trump administration's actions could slow development.

March 13, 2025
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  • Michael Copley
Astronauts Suni Williams (lower) and Butch Wilmore (left) were originally supposed to return to Earth in June of last year. Instead, they've been part of the latest crew of the International Space Station, along with astronaut Nick Hague (right).

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  • Space

NASA's latest space launch: 'Stranded' astronauts and messy politics

President Trump and Elon Musk claim the Biden administration abandoned two astronauts in space. But the publicly available evidence suggests a different story.

March 12, 2025
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
Light shines from a total lunar eclipse over Santa Monica Beach in California in 2021.

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  • Space

What to know about this week's 'blood worm moon' total lunar eclipse

This total lunar eclipse — the first in three years — will feature a "blood worm moon," so named for the reddish hue of its glow and the time of year it's occurring.

March 11, 2025
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  • Joe Hernandez
Keith Thomas, who lives with paralysis, poses with the research team at Northwell Health's Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research that worked with him for months to restore lasting movement and feeling in his arm and hand. The 'double neural bypass' system uses brain implants and artificial intelligence to allow signals to and from Thomas' brain to bypass the site of his injury.

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  • Science

Scientists are engineering a sense of touch for people who are paralyzed

A man living with paralysis felt his index finger for the first time in three years, thanks to technology that reconnected his brain and body.

March 11, 2025
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  • Jon Hamilton
The marquee at the Plaza Theatre in Atlanta in September 2020.

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  • Movies

5 years after COVID closed theaters, movies are still struggling to climb back

The pandemic decimated the box office and the reshaped the moviegoing experience. NPR's movie critic, Bob Mondello, looks back on how his job changed during the early months of COVID-19.

March 10, 2025
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  • Bob Mondello
Half empty or half full?

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  • Health

To booze or not to booze, that is the question (this new survey just asked)

According to the survey, 57% of drinkers believe their alcohol consumption does not increase their personal risk of serious health problems.

March 10, 2025
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
The booster of SpaceX's mega rocket Starship is recaptured during a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday.

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  • Space

Failure is an option. Here's why some new space ventures go sideways

Within the span of a few days, another SpaceX Starship broke up on re-entry, and two other space companies faced failures. This reflects a new "fail-fast, learn-fast" ethos of spacecraft development.

March 10, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman
Narwhal whales live in social groups called pods and live in the Arctic ocean. Experts disagree on the purpose of males' tusks.

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  • Science

Does the narwhal's famous tusk help it catch fish?

Intriguing video of narwhals using their tusks to mess with fish has scientists speculating about what this behavior might mean.

March 10, 2025
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
This photo shows a carved bone tool made from an elephant humerus dating back 1.5 million years.

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  • National

New research reveals ancient humans used animal bone tools much earlier than thought

The handcrafted tools found in Tanzania were made 1.5 million years ago and were fashioned primarily from the bones of elephants and hippopotamuses.

March 07, 2025
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  • Chandelis Duster
A new report finds butterfly populations are declining in the U.S.

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  • Science

Butterfly numbers have fallen by nearly a quarter since 2000

Butterflies of all kinds of species, in all parts of the country, have declined by one to two percent since 2000.

March 06, 2025
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  • Jonathan Lambert
An artists impression of a black hole flinging a hypervelocity star out of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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  • Space

That galaxy next door? It's home to a monster black hole

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor to the Milky Way, may house a giant black hole. It's the closest supermassive black hole outside of our galaxy.

March 06, 2025
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
SpaceX's mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday.

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  • Space

SpaceX's latest Starship test flight ends with another explosion

Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket but lost contact minutes into the test flight.

March 06, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A view of the moon from Intuitive Machine's Athena Lander.

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  • Space

Intuitive Machines sends another probe to the moon, but can't stick the landing

Commercial company Intuitive Machines has landed its second probe on the moon, but company officials say it isn't in the correct position. The same thing happened last time.

March 06, 2025
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  • Geoff Brumfiel and
  • Scott Neuman
Tests show the amount of sediment stirred up by large cruise ships often exceeds EPA standards and can  damage the marine environment.

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  • Environment

In Key West, testing shows cruise ships stir up as much sediment as a hurricane

Tests in Key West show sediment stirred up by cruise ships, which can harm marine life, routinely exceed federal standards. Key West has responded by suspending the tests.

March 06, 2025
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  • Greg Allen
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