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This week in science: Chimpanzee 'conversations,' deep ocean oxygen and rogue waves

10:25pm July 25, 2024

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about chimpanzee "conversations," oxygen from the bottom of the ocean and how a computer program may warn of rogue waves.

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Octopus farming in the U.S. would be banned under a new bill in Congress

5:01pm July 25, 2024

by Bill Chappell

The OCTOPUS Act would ban farming the animal, and imports of farmed meat. It was introduced by a senator whose office says he learned about the plan through a story on NPR.

NASA still doesn't know when two astronauts will be able to come home

4:08pm July 25, 2024

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

NASA still is not sure when two astronauts might come home in Boeing's new Starliner spacecraft.

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Tested: Running in Circles

10:24am July 25, 2024

by Rose Eveleth

Episode 4: In 2009, South African sprinter Caster Semenya won gold at the World Championships. But instead of a celebration, she endured endless speculation about her body, her biology, and her gender. And soon, sports organizations would launch a new round of regulations, lead to multiple court cases, and require sporting organizations to justify their claim that DSD athletes have an unfair advantage.

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California's newest state park is like a time machine

5:02am July 25, 2024

California's newest state park just opened this summer — and a visit is like stepping into a time machine as its creators reimagine what a state park can be.

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California's newest state park is like a time machine

10:20pm July 24, 2024

In the Central Valley, California’s first new state park in a decade opened this summer and it re-imagines what a state park can be.

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A cold front is bringing some relief to the Northwest — but also wind

10:20pm July 24, 2024

by Kirk Siegler

The Northwest has been suffering record-setting heat. A cold front is supposed to move in, but with it comes high winds and dry thunderstorms in forests that have been cooked tinder dry.

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Here's how $4 billion in government money is being spent to reduce climate pollution

7:30pm July 24, 2024

Most states submitted plans to reduce planet-warming pollution to unlock federal grant money, and they proposed projects to get started. This week, the Biden administration announced the winners.

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Scientists may have discovered 'dark oxygen' being created without photosynthesis

11:12am July 24, 2024

It has long been understood that photosynthesis creates oxygen, but researchers believe they've found oxygen being created in parts of the ocean with no light.

Watch a livestream of Colorado’s ‘mega den’ of pregnant rattlesnakes

5:00am July 24, 2024

by Linnea E. Anderson

On a rocky hillside in Colorado is a “mega den” of hundreds of rattlesnakes — along with cameras livestreaming the whole thing.

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