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Belle and Maya run a play against pup-ponent Callen.

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  • Arts & Life

See Spot run: Photos from a historic Puppy Bowl

The pups from Team Fluff weren't the only winners. See freeze-frame highlights from the 21st edition of the Puppy Bowl.

February 09, 2025
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  • Emma Bowman
NASA's SPHEREx observatory undergoes testing in August 2024. The mission will make the first all-sky spectroscopic survey in the near-infrared, helping to answer some of the biggest questions in astrophysics.

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  • Science

Searching the entire sky for the secrets to our universe

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic molecules.

February 09, 2025
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  • Ari Daniel
A laboratory studying sickle cell disease at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Laboratory, at the National Institutes of Health on Feb. 8, 2024, in Bethesda, Md.

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  • Health

NIH announces new funding policy that rattles medical researchers

The National Institutes of Health has dramatically changed its grant-making terms by limiting how much it will disburse for costs such as equipment and administration.

February 09, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
NSF-funded research, from astronomy to zoology, is under intense scrutiny by the Trump administration.

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  • Science

'Unprecedented': White House moves to control science funding worry researchers

If the Trump administration continues targeting DEI in science and seeking to slash funding, American science will look fundamentally different.

February 08, 2025
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  • Jonathan Lambert
Do you have what it takes to cook these guys perfectly?

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  • Food

These researchers have found a scientifically perfect way to cook eggs

An Italian study published this week has found the way to cook a perfect egg — you'll just need to spend 32 minutes to make it happen.

February 08, 2025
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  • Manuela López Restrepo and
  • Michelle Aslam
NASA has instructed employees, contractors and grantees to remove all pronouns from their signatures.

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  • Science

NASA instructs employees to remove pronouns from all work communications

An email seen by NPR says the move is to comply with a presidential order to "restore biological truth" to the government.

February 06, 2025
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
Palmerston, the rescue cat of the U.K.'s Foreign Office, stalks past 10 Downing St. in front of the waiting media in central London on June 9, 2017.

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  • Strange News

U.K.'s foreign office cat Palmerston shows up for duty in Bermuda

The former rescue feline joined the British diplomatic service in 2016 and gained a large following online for fulfilling his duty with charisma. He retired in 2020 but is back in action now.

February 06, 2025
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
Pets At Home in Southend, U.K., is one retailer to be selling dog treats made from lab-grown meat.

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  • World

Bone appétit! Dog treats from lab-grown meat are hitting the U.K. market

Experts say a fifth of U.K. meat consumption is by pets, not people. If Fido eats lab-grown meat, they say, it could cut the country's carbon footprint.

February 06, 2025
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  • Lauren Frayer
A great horned owl sits in a tree at the Massapequa Preserve in New York on April 23, 2024.

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  • Animals

Don't give a hoot about sports? The Superb Owl might be for you

What began as an accidental misspelling or an online joke has soared into a cultural phenomenon.

February 06, 2025
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  • Joe Hernandez
Research participant Doug McCullough uses the adaptive exercise bike during a testing session at the University of Pittsburgh.

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  • Health

Spinal stimulation restored muscles wasted by rare genetic disorder

Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal stimulation.

February 06, 2025
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  • Jon Hamilton
Clinical research conducted at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Md., continues, but recruitment of new patients is on hold.

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  • Science

A sense of foreboding hangs over the National Institutes of Health

There's widespread confusion and fear among scientists and doctors on the sprawling National Institutes of Health campus and at institutions dependent on the agency's funding.

February 05, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
Polar bears on ice in Northern Canada.

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  • Science

Why polar bear fur doesn't freeze

New research finds that grease that coats polar bear fur contains a specialized mixture of chemicals that make it resistant to freezing.

February 05, 2025
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  • Jonathan Lambert
A farmworker laboring through high winds near a brush fire in Camarillo, CA on Jan.23, 2005. Employers in California are legally required to provide N95 respirators to workers when the Air Quality Index reaches 150.

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  • Climate

Farmworkers feed the country, but who protects them from wildfire smoke?

Thousands of farmworkers labored in fields in Ventura County, Calif. in late January in wildfire smoke. They have little to no protection from its harmful effects.

February 05, 2025
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  • Nate Perez
Two grand canyons on the moon radiating from the Schrödinger impact basin, from a view that looks obliquely across the lunar surface, like an astronaut in an approaching spacecraft.

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  • Science

The moon's grand canyons were carved in the blink of an eye

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.

February 04, 2025
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Prosecutors Jessica Rock, right, and K.C. Pagnotta pose with Baby Shark — who was rescued from the alleged dogfighting operation as a puppy in 2022 — at the sentencing last week.

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  • National

A man was sentenced to 475 years for dogfighting. The sport is surprisingly prevalent

A man who was arrested with over 100 dogs and equipment at his Georgia home got the maximum sentence last week. Prosecutors hope it sheds light on the prevalence of dogfighting, a felony in the U.S.

February 04, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
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