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How one tech startup aims to disrupt the market for illegal rhino horns

4:25pm February 22, 2024

Could the same economic forces that helped propel lab-grown diamonds and lab-grown meat forward help a startup end illegal rhino poaching? The answer is elusive.

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Short Wave on singing gibbons, tai chi's health benefits, and gender disparity with exercise results

4:25pm February 22, 2024

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Rachel Carlson of Short Wave about singing gibbons, how tai chi might lower blood pressure, and why women get quicker benefits from exercise than men.

Keeping up with the first possible U.S. soft moon landing in decades

4:25pm February 22, 2024

by Geoff Brumfiel

Intuitive Machines will attempt a landing on the moon Thursday evening. If it succeeds, it will be the first U.S. soft landing in decades.

Left: President Joe Biden delivers remarks to the National Association of Counties Legislative Conference on Feb. 12 in Washington. Right: Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina and 2024 Republican presidential candidate, during a bus tour campaign event in South Carolina on Feb. 21.

Biden and Haley spar over abortion after Alabama court rules embryos are 'children'

3:39pm February 22, 2024

by Lexie Schapitl

Nikki Haley seemed to side with the Alabama court's decision, telling NBC News, "Embryos, to me, are babies." President Biden has seized the opportunity to call for enshrining Roe.

The sun is shown in the first phase of a total eclipse in this photo taken in August 2017 from Grand Teton National Park outside Jackson, Wyo.

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Delta's special total solar eclipse flight sold out in 24 hours

11:27am February 22, 2024

by Diba Mohtasham

An Austin, Texas-to-Detroit flight along April's path of totality is sold out. There are other flights with a view, though your best bet may actually be here on Earth, says one astrophysicist.

A 3D model of a short section of the stone wall. The scale at the bottom of the image measures 50 cm.

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Scientists scanning the seafloor discover a long-lost Stone Age 'megastructure'

10:21am February 22, 2024

by Ari Daniel

The more than half mile long wall, called the Blinkerwall, was likely used by Stone Age hunter-gatherers to herd reindeer toward a shooting blind.

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Scientists in the Florida Keys haven't had great success revitalizing coral reefs

5:44pm February 21, 2024

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Katey Lesneski, research coordinator for coral restoration at the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. She's been checking on restored corals, which struggled in 2023.

An ambitious NIH study has brought new attention to chronic fatigue syndrome

5:26pm February 21, 2024

by Will Stone

Long COVID has brought new attention to how complex chronic illnesses can develop in the aftermath of a viral infection. Prior research may help forward clinical trials to test possible treatments.

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The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab on Nov. 8, 2021.

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The International Space Station retires soon. NASA won't run its future replacement.

1:09pm February 21, 2024

by Kaity Kline

NASA is crashing the ISS into the ocean at the end of 2030. The agency is collaborating with private companies to build its replacement. So what could the space stations of the near future look like?

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In this April 30, 2021, file image taken by the Mars Perseverance rover and made available by NASA, the Mars Ingenuity helicopter, right, flies over the surface of the planet.

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NASA is looking for people to test out its Mars simulator for a year

12:16am February 21, 2024

by Ayana Archie

The agency is accepting applicants for the second cohort of its Mars simulator mission. Participants will live and work from a 3D-printed, 1,700-square-foot facility at NASA's Houston space center.