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Hundreds of NIH scientists protested cuts to the research agency in a declaration addressed to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya.

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NIH scientists call on director to protect biomedical research

In a public letter, hundreds of scientists expressed their dissent to the Trump administration's policies affecting the National Institutes of Health and called on its director to support the agency.

June 09, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
Climate solutions for reducing home energy use can be extremely simple — and sometimes even free, says Dorit Aviv, assistant professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.

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  • Climate

5 simple (and cheap) things to make your house use less energy

Sometimes reducing your home's energy use can be as simple as opening a window or buying tape. Here are five easy ways to have a more climate-friendly home and save on energy bills at the same time.

June 09, 2025
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  • Julia Simon
Traditional dancers perform during the opening session of the third United Nations Ocean Conference, which gathers leaders, researchers and activists to discuss how to protect marine life until June 13, in the southern French city of Nice, on Monday.

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  • Environment

U.N. Ocean Conference opens in France as U.S. government scientists stay away

Heads of state, mayors, scientists and policymakers have gathered in France to tackle what is being described as a global emergency facing the world's seas.

June 09, 2025
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  • Eleanor Beardsley
In this image taken from June 8, 2025, video by the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office in Rutherford County, Tennessee, shows the airlifting of a zebra named Ed that had evaded capture for several days after it ran away from its owner.

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  • Animals

Ed, the runaway pet zebra, has been captured in Tennessee

Ed the Zebra was captured safely after being located in a pasture near a subdivision in the Christiana community in central Tennessee, the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office confirmed.

June 09, 2025
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Jonathan Alperstein, one of the researchers, excavates a portion of land on an ancient agricultural site in Michigan.

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A surprise find in Michigan shows the extent of ancient Native American agriculture

Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.

June 08, 2025
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of 20 Starlink satellites is seen in the evening sky above Lawndale, Calif., after being launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 18, 2024.

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  • Space

How the U.S. became highly reliant on Elon Musk for access to space

Besides its flights to the International Space Station and Starship program, SpaceX is deeply embedded in the Department of Defense. The feud between Elon Musk and President Trump could end all that.

June 07, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman and
  • Geoff Brumfiel
An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally, whose front flipper was amputated after she was rescued in January suffering from predator wounds, crawls toward the Atlantic Ocean after being released, on the beach in front of Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, Fla., Wednesday, June 4, 2025.

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Sea turtle Dilly Dally released into the ocean with three flippers after undergoing amputation

Dilly Dally, a loggerhead turtle who survived a run-in with a predator that ultimately cost her a flipper, has been rereleased into the wild.

June 06, 2025
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  • Alana Wise
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When is forgetting normal — and when is it worrisome? A neuroscientist weighs in

Do you have trouble remembering names or where you put your keys? Neurologist Charan Ranganath, author of Why We Remember, talks about the science of memory. Originally broadcast Feb. 24, 2024.

June 06, 2025
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  • Terry Gross
Homes destroyed by a 2020 wildfire in Talent, Ore. FEMA denied about 70% of assistance applications related to massive Oregon wildfires that year, an <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1010897265/as-western-wildfires-worsen-fema-is-denying-most-people-who-ask-for-help"target="_blank"   >NPR investigation</a> found. The agency has a long history of failing to help vulnerable disaster survivors, but reforms under the Biden administration were starting to fix those long-standing problems.

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FEMA was starting to fix long-standing problems. Then came the Trump administration

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has a long history of failing to help those who need assistance the most after disasters. Biden-era changes meant to fix some of those problems now face an uncertain future.

June 06, 2025
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  • Rebecca Hersher
A sign warns of an air quality alert as smoke from wildfires burning in Canada reaches Minneapolis on Tuesday.

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  • World

Smoke knows no boundaries: What Canada's fires mean for the U.S. in the future

More than 200 wildfires are raging across Canada, sending a thick blanket of choking smoke through the U.S. Midwest. Experts says climate change means U.S. residents better get used to it.

June 06, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman
People await the update on ispace's private lunar lander's attempt to touch down on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan.

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  • Space

Private lunar lander from Japan crashes into moon in failed mission

The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure several hours after communication was lost with the lander.

June 06, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Struggling to have a second child, astronaut Kellie Gerardi uses her social media presence to let others know they're not alone. She's pictured above in 2021 in New York City.

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  • Arts & Life

Operation Rainbow Space Baby: An astronaut's journey with IVF

Struggling to have a second child, astronaut Kellie Gerardi uses her social media presence to let others know they're not alone.

June 05, 2025
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  • Dhanika Pineda
A study of mice and people looks at how the brain takes an experience and responds with an emotion.<br>

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  • Science

To get from experience to emotion, the brain hits 'sustain'

A study of mice and people looks at how the brain takes an experience, like being cut off in traffic, and responds with an emotion, like road rage.

June 04, 2025
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  • Jon Hamilton

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  • World

Greetings from Mexico City, where these dogs ride a bus to and from school

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international correspondents share snapshots of moments from their lives and work around the world.

June 04, 2025
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  • Eyder Peralta
James Henriksen with Colorado State University holds up a water sample for Harvard colleague Braden Tierney. The bag is teeming with microbes that they hope may help solve some of humanity's big problems.

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  • Science

These researchers think the sludge in your home may help save the planet

What if the solutions to some of Earth's biggest problems could be found in some of its smallest creatures? That bet has led a team of researchers to places both remote and — lately — rather familiar.

June 03, 2025
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  • Ari Daniel
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