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A new study from Uganda's Budongo Forest draws on decades of data suggesting chimps understand the specific medicinal properties of certain plants and will go out of their way to treat the maladies of their peers.
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Mining in the deep sea — more than 15,000 feet down — is an unexplored frontier.
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Fossils of the underwater predator shed new light on biodiversity from the Cambrian period.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Matthew Petrohay about his team's undergraduate project at Purdue University. They built a robot that set a new world record for shortest time to solve a Rubik's cube.
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Flamingos look silly when they eat, but new research suggests they're actually being smart.
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The health care giant's shares are down more than 50% in the last month. That's hurting the powerful U.S. stock-market index.
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Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of Short Wave talk about a tool to increase biker safety, the genetic secrets that make orange cats orange, and a link between gum disease and heart rhythm disorders.
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The Environmental Protection Agency says it's delaying the timeline for water utilities to implement Biden-era rules intended to limit harmful per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances —commonly known as PFAS — in drinking water.
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The all-female Korean Haenyeo divers show genetic adaptations to cold-water diving involving their blood pressure and cold tolerance. It's "like they have a superpower," says one of the researchers.
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A researcher monitoring Axial Seamount, 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, says the eruption is expected to happen before the year is over.
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This waste contributes to the chocolate industry's massive climate footprint. One company, Blue Stripes, is trying to address this by creating snacks out of the rest of the cacao fruit normally tossed aside.
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Oceans play a vital role in weather and climate change, and scientists are working to rectify their lack of knowledge about that role.