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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

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

Elon Musk says he is merging SpaceX with his artificial-intelligence company xAI

5:43 PM on Monday, February 2

Elon Musk says he is merging SpaceX with his artificial-intelligence company xAI

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 hit by fuel leaks during a practice countdown of the moon rocket that will fly with astronauts

12:41 PM on Monday, February 2

NASA has run into exasperating fuel leaks in a make-or-break test of the moon rocket that's supposed to send astronauts on a lunar fly-around

2-month-olds see the world in a more complex way than scientists thought, study suggests

11:03 AM on Monday, February 2

A new study suggests that babies are able to distinguish between the different objects they see around them at 2 months old, which earlier than scientists previously thought

FILE - A forklift speeds by machines and workers on the production floor of a Mohawk Industries rug manufacturing plant in Calhoun, Ga., Wednesday, April 12, 2006. (AP Photo/Ric Feld, File)

Takeaways from investigation into the toxic forever chemical legacy of the South’s carpet industry

9:49 AM on Monday, February 2

A major investigative collaboration among five newsrooms shows how chemicals used to make carpets stain-resistant have contaminated swaths of the South

This photo provided by SIP/Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, shows a mining device inserted into subsea sediment off Minamitorishima, south of Tokyo, on Jan. 30, 2026. (SIP/Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology via AP)

Japan retrieves rare earth-rich mud from seabed to lower reliance on China

8:05 AM on Monday, February 2

A Japanese research vessel has successfully drilled and retrieved deep-sea sediment containing rare earth minerals from the seabed near a remote island, Japan’s government announced Monday as the country seeks to reduce its reliance on China

The US Lock & Dam on the Cape Fear River in Fayetteville, N.C., on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

A crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells

7:25 AM on Monday, February 2

The roughly 40 million Americans who get drinking water from wells are at particular risk when harmful forever chemicals contaminate the supply

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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