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Can the most popular red wine in the U.S. endure climate change?

Bold cabernet sauvignon wines made Napa Valley famous. Now, hotter temperatures are starting to damage the grapes, so some wineries are starting to experiment.

September 10, 2024
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  • Lauren Sommer
Polaris Dawn lifts off from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Tuesday morning. The crew is set to conduct the first private spacewalk ever in a matter of days.

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  • Space

The Polaris Dawn spacewalk is SpaceX’s ‘risky adventure’

New spacesuits, untested astronauts, and a lot that can go wrong make this five-day mission unusually complex, but with a potentially great reward.

September 10, 2024
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel
Earlier this summer, a group of Virginia watermen voted to explore the possibility of year-round crab fishery, but conservationists worry what that could mean for the health of the Bay.

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  • Environment

Winter crabbing strained Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population. It may soon resume

After a 16-year prohibition, a group of Virginia watermen voted to reinstate winter crab dredging. Many argue the decision puts the blue crab’s fragile population in jeopardy.

September 10, 2024
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By:
  • Julie Depenbrock
Divers with the Coral Restoration Foundation swim over bleached staghorn outplants at Horseshoe Reef in the Florida Keys in August 3, 2023. A year after the worst bleaching event ever recorded, the coral reefs off the Florida coast are slowly recovering.

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  • Environment

Florida’s coral reefs are still ailing but doing better

A year after the worst coral bleaching ever recorded, Florida's reefs are slowly recovering. Despite elevated ocean temperatures, scientists say this summer they didn’t see significant bleaching.

September 09, 2024
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  • Greg Allen
Mr. Greedy, the penguin with the most spots on his belly, is pictured at far left.

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  • Animals

'Mr. Greedy,' a prolific penguin dad, has died at age 33

Mr. Greedy, a beloved member of the Maryland Zoo, was a prolific breeder who helped boost the endangered African penguin population. He died following an age-related health decline, the zoo said.

September 08, 2024
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  • Emma Bowman
 This image, taken from NASA video, shows the Boeing Starliner capsule coming down through the darkness over New Mexico.

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  • Science

With no crew aboard, spacecraft Starliner lands without a hitch

The spacecraft landed in New Mexico early Saturday morning leaving two astronauts behind on the International Space Station. The crew members will return to earth in February aboard a SpaceX craft.

September 07, 2024
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Lilla Lanivich, 14, and her service dog, Lopez, outside their family’s home in Rochester Hills, Mich. This year’s middle school winner of the NPR Student Podcast Challenge tells how her golden retriever, Lopez, helped restore her independence.

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  • Children's Health

Chronic illness shattered this teen's life. Her service dog helped get it back

The middle school winner of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge tells how her golden retriever, Lopez, changed her life.

September 07, 2024
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By:
  • Sequoia Carrillo and
  • Janet W. Lee
Humpback whales blow spiraling circles of bubbles to create underwater nets for their tiny prey, krill.

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  • Climate

Humpback whales make custom fishing nets — out of bubbles

To target the tiny prey they depend on, humpbacks have developed a way of trapping them with nets made out of bubbles. A new study shows exactly how they do it.

September 06, 2024
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  • Lauren Sommer
Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang, winners of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1957. Both were affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study at the time of the award.

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  • Perspective

T.D. Lee changed science in China and my life. This is what I owe to him

Chinese particle physicist Yangyang Cheng reflects on the legacy of the late Nobel laureate T.D. Lee — how his ideas changed her life, and the limit to his engagement with Beijing.

September 05, 2024
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  • Yangyang Cheng

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  • Your Money

Could you live without shopping for a year? Try the 'no-buy challenge'

The goal is to save money, cut back on overconsumption and be more mindful of wasteful and unsustainable shopping habits. This guide can help you start a challenge of your own.

September 05, 2024
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  • Stacey Vanek Smith
From mosses to mountain lions, the temperate old-growth rainforests of the Pacific Northwest provide the complexities and conditions necessary to support high levels of biodiversity. The Northwest Forest Plan has provided protection for these ancient ecosystems over the last 30 years, and has helped advance forest management in Oregon, Washington and California. Developed in response to decades of unsustainable logging practices, the plan has helped restore forest ecosystems in 17 National Forests.

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  • National

A photographer captures life in America’s last remaining old-growth forests

From salamanders and salmon to bears and mountain lions, David Herasimtschuk's images illustrate not only the beauty of the forests and their creatures but the symbiotic relationships that are vital to the forests’ health and the planet’s welfare.

September 04, 2024
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  • Ben de la Cruz
A woman walks along a flooded street caused by a king tide in Miami Beach, Fla., in 2019. So-called sunny day floods are getting more common in many coastal areas as seas rise due to human-caused climate change.

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  • Climate

Coastal flooding is getting more common, even on sunny days

High tide floods – when water collects in streets or even seeps into buildings on days without rain – are increasingly common in coastal areas as sea levels rise, a new report warns.

September 04, 2024
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  • Rebecca Hersher
Hvaldimir pictured in Hammerfest, Norway, in 2019. He lived there for much of that year before traveling along Norway's coast and even surfacing in Sweden.

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  • Animals

Beloved 'Russian spy whale' Hvaldimir is found dead under mysterious circumstances

A beloved beluga whale with a mysterious past was found dead in the waters of Norway over the weekend. Admirers are paying tribute as authorities investigate.

September 03, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
 New images of the Titanic show part of the railing of the prow has fallen off.

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  • Science

Titanic research dive reveals discovery, decay and new photos

This summer, RMS Titanic, Inc. — the salvor-in-possession of the wreck — made its first unmanned dive to the wreck in 14 years. The team uncovered some rare finds — and losses.

September 03, 2024
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  • Scott Detrow,
  • Avery Keatley,
  • and 1 more
Glowing lines and spots encircling a human brain

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  • Research News

This metabolic brain boost revives memory in Alzheimer’s mice

An experimental cancer drug that helps the brain turn glucose into energy was able to reverse memory loss in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease.

September 02, 2024
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  • Jon Hamilton
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