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New approach to assess the health status of intermittent rivers
More than 50% of the world’s river network is made of temporary or intermittent rivers: those…
Decades-long push to lower stillbirth rate in the US has stalled
A decades-long effort to lower the stillbirth rate in the United States has stalled, as has…
A secretive Space Force plane completed its longest mission yet
Details about the X-37B’s 908 days spent orbiting Earth are scant. But with each new mission,…
What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend listening, viewing and reading
Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour share what’s bringing them…
Debris from Challenger space shuttle found off the coast of Florida
NPR’s Elissa Nadworny talks with National Air and Space Museum curator Jennifer Levasseur about recently discovered…
Probiotic 'backpacks' show promise for treating inflammatory bowel diseases
A new study demonstrates just how much promise modified probiotic bacteria hold for improving inflammatory bowel…
Rats bop to the beat
Accurately moving to a musical beat was thought to be a skill innately unique to humans.…
Physicists find new way to measure properties of a material's surface layer
Physicists have developed a new technique that can measure the properties of the topmost atomic layer…
Popular dietary supplement causes cancer risk, brain metastasis
While previous studies have linked commercial dietary supplements like nicotinamide riboside (NR), a form of vitamin…