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A broken thruster jeopardized Voyager 1, but engineers ...

NASA mission controllers raced against time to find a solution before a crucial ...

Researchers puzzle over rash of baby monkey kidnappings

Young, male capuchin monkeys have started kidnapping the babies of nearby howler...

Where does your weather forecast come from?

Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorol...

Why this physicist says we shouldn't write off wormholes

In science fiction, wormholes are hyperspace subway tubes linking one part of a ...

Paleontologists discover a 500-million-year-old, 3-eyed...

Fossils of the underwater predator shed new light on biodiversity from the Cambr...

The 'Purdubik's Cube' solves the beloved puzzle in reco...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Matthew Petrohay about his team's undergraduate pro...

Scientists have figured out why flamingos are such weir...

Flamingos look silly when they eat, but new research suggests they're actually b...

Why UnitedHealth's terrible year is dragging down the Dow

The health care giant's shares are down more than 50% in the last month. That's ...

The DNA secret behind orange cats

Approximately 80% of orange cats are males, including the four orange cats owned...

This week in science: biker safety, orange cats and a g...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of Short Wave talk about a tool to increase biker ...

The all-female free divers of Jeju Island have a 'super...

The all-female Korean Haenyeo divers show genetic adaptations to cold-water divi...

Marine life's latest hotspot could be an underwater vol...

A researcher monitoring Axial Seamount, 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, says ...

The all-female free divers of Jeju island have a 'super...

The all-female Korean Haenyeo divers show genetic adaptations to cold water divi...

Marine life's latest hotspot could be an underwater vol...

A researcher monitoring Axial Seamount, 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, says ...

Hunt like a bat! How baby bats learn to eavesdrop on th...

Most bats use echolocation to navigate and hunt, but some use their ears for ano...

UnitedHealth Group abruptly replaces CEO Andrew Witty, ...

The health care conglomerate is facing mounting financial problems – and ongoing...

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