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EPA Forever Chemicals Drinking Water
The Cape Fear River, which supplies water to much of New Hanover County, flows past downtown Wilmington, N.C., Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben McKeown)

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Decision looming for Trump administration on first PFAS drinking water limits

APRIL 30, 2025

Food Dyes
Jobe Washington, right, and Dwight Brown use a large sifter to mix a shade of yellow coloring at Sensient Technologies Corp., a color additive manufacturing company, in St. Louis, on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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How bugs and beet juice could play roles in the race to replace artificial dyes in food

APRIL 28, 2025

Be Well-Fear Of Flying
An airplane lifts off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport as the sun rises Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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Worries about flying seem to be taking off. Here’s how to cope with in-flight anxiety

APRIL 25, 2025

Mouse Brain Map
This image provided by the Allen Institute on April 8, 2025, shows a digital representation of neurons in a section of a mouse's brain, part of a project to create the largest map to date of brain wiring and function, in Seattle, Wash. (Forrest Collman/Allen Institute via AP)

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Scientists map part of a mouse’s brain that’s so complex it looks like a galaxy

APRIL 10, 2025

Trump-NASA Administrator
FILE - Commander Jared Isaacman speaks at a news conference after arriving at the Kennedy Space Center for an upcoming private human spaceflight mission in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

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Billionaire spacewalker highlights Mars trip for astronauts in his bid to become NASA’s next chief

APRIL 9, 2025

CORRECTION Microsoft Anniversary Catalytic Code
CORRECTS THAT PHOTO WAS TAKEN IN RECENT TIMES - This recent photo provided by Gates Ventures shows Microsoft founder Bill Gates holding a printout of the computer coding that launched the software maker in April 1975. (Ian Allen/Gates Ventures via AP)

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Microsoft founder Bill Gates reflects upon a 50-year-old computer code that reshaped technology

APRIL 4, 2025

In this image provided by NASA, a SpaceX capsule splashes down in the Gulf of Mexico, Tuesday, March 18, 2025, as it lands off the coast of Florida with NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore and Nick Hague, and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov. (Keegan Barber/NASA via AP)
In this image provided by NASA, a SpaceX capsule splashes down in the Gulf of Mexico, Tuesday, March 18, 2025, as it lands off the coast of Florida with NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore and Nick Hague, and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov. (Keegan Barber/NASA via AP)

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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return to Earth after 9 months stuck in space

MARCH 18, 2025

In this photo provided by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), researcher Ignacio de la Torre holds a bone tool found in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, at the CSIC-Pleistocene Archaeology Lab in Madrid in 2023. (Angeliki Theodoropoulou/CSIC via AP)
In this photo provided by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), researcher Ignacio de la Torre holds a bone tool found in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, at the CSIC-Pleistocene Archaeology Lab in Madrid in 2023. (Angeliki Theodoropoulou/CSIC via AP)

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Ancient humans made tools from animal bones 1.5 million years ago

MARCH 7, 2025

In this Feb 2025 photo provided by Colossal Biosciences are genetically edited mice with long, thick, woolly hair at a lab in Dallas, Texas. (Colossal Biosciences via AP)
In this Feb 2025 photo provided by Colossal Biosciences are genetically edited mice with long, thick, woolly hair at a lab in Dallas, Texas. (Colossal Biosciences via AP)

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Scientists genetically engineer mice with thick hair like the extinct woolly mammoth

MARCH 4, 2025

FILE - This May 18, 1969 photo provided by NASA shows Earth from 36,000 nautical miles away as photographed from the Apollo 10 spacecraft during its trans-lunar journey toward the moon. (NASA via AP)
FILE - This May 18, 1969 photo provided by NASA shows Earth from 36,000 nautical miles away as photographed from the Apollo 10 spacecraft during its trans-lunar journey toward the moon. (NASA via AP)

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer a threat to Earth, scientists say

FEB. 25, 2025

This image provided by NASA shows a top-down view of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head with the lid removed, revealing the remainder of the asteroid sample inside. (NASA via AP)
This image provided by NASA shows a top-down view of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head with the lid removed, revealing the remainder of the asteroid sample inside. (NASA via AP)

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Are we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world

JAN. 29, 2025

People reflected in a window with a slogan about AI at a representation of a company ahead of the World Economy Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
People reflected in a window with a slogan about AI at a representation of a company ahead of the World Economy Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

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What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company upending the stock market?

JAN. 27, 2025

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