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The Southern Appalachian brook trout are ancient. But the fish only like clean streams. Now scientists want to know how the trout is doing a year after floods from Hurricane Helene.

The powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory is releasing some of its first images as part of an ambitious effort to effectively create a movie of all the changes in the southern night sky over a decade.

Divers are getting excited about the planned sinking of the SS United States. The once glorious luxury ocean liner is slated to become an artificial reef.

Hotter temperatures make breathing problems during sleep more likely, even when it's not extremely hot

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Farzan Sabet, of the Geneva Graduate Institute, about the impact U.S. military strikes had on Iran's nuclear capabilities.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly spot previously unseen astronomical objects.

Satellite imagery shows trucks at two key sites the day before the American strikes, suggesting uranium could have been moved.

So far, any chemical and radioactive contamination seems confined to the nuclear sites hit by U.S. bombs

If the U.S. does drop a powerful "bunker buster" bomb on a suspected underground nuclear weapons site in Iran, experts in radiation hazards say there is little risk of widespread contamination.

The pilot of a small plane that crashed near an airport tried to avoid hitting a turtle on the runway, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report. The pilot and a passenger were killed.