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Regina Barber and Katia Riddle of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about prehistoric cooking, earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest and how teens are sleeping less than before.
Colossal Biosciences scientist Beth Shapiro holds a portion of a woolly mammoth tusk recovered from the Arctic. Rob Stein/NPR hide.
A motorboat cruises off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, on the Strait of Hormuz, with a tanker seen in the background, on February 25, 2026. Tanker traffic through the strait has come essentially to a.
Smoke was still visible rising from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's compound following the attack that killed the supreme leader. Following Khamenei's death, Iran declared 40 days of mourning.
The space agency outlined a new path for its Artemis moon mission, designed to return humans to the moon using NASA's SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft for the first time since the final Apollo lunar mission in 1972. NASA's Artemis I mission launched in November 2022, sending an uncrewed Orion space capsule on a trip around the moon and back. If all goes well, NASA could attempt a launch as early as April 1, but it has not officially announced a target date.
Discovery board announced late Thursday afternoon that Paramount's sweetened bid to buy the entire company is "superior" to an $83 billion deal it had struck with Netflix for the purchase of its streaming services, studios, and intellectual property. Paramount previously bid for all of Warner — including its cable channels such as CNN, TBS, and Discovery — in a deal valued at $108 billion. Earlier this week, Paramount unveiled a fresh proposal increasing its bid by a dollar a share.
The Trump administration has ordered several coal plants to keep operating past their planned retirement, part of a larger effort to boost the coal industry. Two Colorado utilities are pushing back.
A newly discovered species of large dinosaur lived in marshy areas, hunted for fish and had an impressive horn protruding from its skull. It is the first time in over 100 years that scientists have discovered a new species of Spinosaurus dinosaurs, which are large fish-eating predators that first emerged during the Jurassic period more than 140 million years ago.
