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Josh Courville replaces a crawfish trap while harvesting Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, in Kaplan, La. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Giant snails and tiny insects threaten the South's rice and crawfish farms

2:11 AM on Friday, February 6

Farmers in Louisiana are going toe-to-toe with some nasty enemies: apple snails that clog crawfish traps while laying millions of bubblegum-colored eggs and tiny bugs called delphacids that can wipe out half a rice field while spreading plant disease

This undated photo provided by the Ape Initiative shows Kanzi, a bonobo who learned to communicate with humans, in Des Moines, Iowa. (Ape Initiative via AP)

Can apes play pretend? Scientists use an imaginary tea party to find out

2:00 PM on Thursday, February 5

A new experiment hints that an ape may be able to play pretend like humans do

FILE - A radiologist uses a magnifying glass to check mammograms for breast cancer in Los Angeles, May 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Pandemic disruptions to health care worsened cancer survival, study suggests

11:31 AM on Thursday, February 5

A new study reveals that cancer patients diagnosed during the early COVID-19 pandemic had worse short-term survival rates than a similar group before the pandemic

Faye Jackson has lived for decades on a patch of rural land, right, in Resaca, Ga., on the banks of the Conasauga River, seen on Thursday, May 8, 2025. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Inside the toxic legacy of America’s multibillion-dollar carpet empire

9:49 AM on Thursday, February 5

A new investigation shows how chemicals used for decades to make carpets stain resistant have contaminated swaths of the South

FILE - A SpaceX logo is displayed on a building, May 26, 2020, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Musk vows to put data centers in space and run them on solar power but experts have their doubts

3:27 PM on Wednesday, February 4

Elon Musk is bringing the same revolutionary thinking that helped him upend the car industry to the data center business with promises this week to put up to a million new satellites in the sky

This photo provided by Bat Conservation International shows Rachel Burke, Agave Restoration Coordinator with the group, surveying for flowering and fruiting agave plants in the Burro Mountain area of the Gila National Forest, N.M., on Sept. 6, 2025. (Will Sardinsky/Bat Conservation International via AP)

Agave or bust! Mexican long-nosed bats head farther north in search of sweet nectar

12:15 PM on Tuesday, February 3

Mexican long-nosed bats have a taste for agave nectar, fueling their migration from Mexico to the U.S. each summer

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9:00 AM on Tuesday, February 3

A full moon is seen shining over NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher in the early hours of Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Sam Lott/NASA via AP)

NASA delays astronauts' lunar trip until March after hydrogen leaks mar fueling test

4:25 AM on Tuesday, February 3

NASA's long-awaited moonshot with astronauts is off until at least March because of leaking hydrogen fuel

FILE - Miami Fusion's Tyrone Marshall (15) assists Kansas City Wizards' Scott Vermillion after the two collided while going up for a header in the first half of a soccer match Aug. 29, 1999, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga, File)

English soccer union wants fewer headers for pros, and none for kids, to protect players' brains

6:05 PM on Monday, February 2

The Professional Footballers’ Association has announced the first comprehensive protocol to prevent CTE in English soccer players

FILE - Elon Musk attends a memorial for conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

Musk Inc.? Billionaire combines his rocket and AI businesses before an expected IPO this year

5:47 PM on Monday, February 2

Elon Musk is joining his space exploration and artificial intelligence ventures into a single company before a massive planned initial public offering for the business later this year

This undated image provided by Washington State University in January 2026, made from a video taken from a grizzly bear's collar camera, shows two grizzly bears playing on the tundra in Alaska's North Slope. (Washington State University via AP)

Collar cams offer a bear's eye view into the lives of grizzlies on Alaska's desolate North Slope

8:02 AM on Sunday, February 1

Researchers at Washington State University and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game are using collar cams to study a remote population of grizzly bears on Alaska's North Slope

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