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Ultra-processed foods contain substances you wouldn't find in your own kitchen, like high-fructose corn syrup, artificial flavor and color enhancers, anti-caking agents and emulsifiers. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images At a time when Americans consume more than half of their daily calories from ultra-processed foods, there ...

At a time when Americans consume more than half of their daily calories from ultra-processed foods, there is increasing evidence that eating too many of these foods can make us sick.A study published in the British Medical Journal finds people who consume high amounts of these foods have an increased risk of anxiety...

If the FDA approves it, a new blood test could become another screening option for colorectal cancer. Srinophan69/Getty Images At a time when colorectal cancer is on the rise, a new study finds the disease can be detected through a blood test. The results of a clinical trial, published Wednesday, in The New England ...

America's first commercial-scale offshore wind farm is officially open, a long-awaited moment that helps pave the way for a succession of large wind farms.Danish wind energy developer Ørsted and the utility Eversource built a 12-turbine wind farm called South Fork Wind 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of Montauk Point,...

Boeing 787 Dreamliners are built at the aviation company's North Charleston, S.C., assembly plant in 2023. John Barnett had alleged that Boeing's manufacturing practices had declined and that managers pressured workers not to document potential defects and problems. Juliette Michel/AFP via Getty Images Police in Cha...

People with metabolic syndrome, which can include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar and several other conditions, are at higher risk of getting cancer, a new study finds. Oscar Wong/Getty Images About a third of Americans have metabolic syndrome. It's a cluster of conditions that can include hy...

PragerU CEO Marissa Streit speaks at a news conference with Arizona state Sen. Jake Hoffman, State Superintendent of Schools Tom Horne and Scottsdale Unified School District Board Member Carine Werner at the Arizona State Capitol. PragerU/Screenshot by NPR Despite the suggestive sound of its name, PragerU is not a u...

For 30 years, Daryl Davis has spent time befriending members of the Ku Klux Klan. He says 200 Klansmen have given up their robes after talking with him. Courtesy of Daryl Davis Daryl Davis is a blues musician, but he also has what some might call an interesting hobby. For the past 30 years, Davis, a black man, has s...

This artist's impression shows one of the Voyager spacecraft moving through the darkness of space. NASA/JPL-Caltech The last time Stamatios "Tom" Krimigis saw the Voyager 1 space probe in person, it was the summer of 1977, just before it launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Now Voyager 1 is over 15 billion miles a...

A former Google engineer was charged with stealing AI technology while secretly working with two China-based companies. Carl Court/Getty Images A Chinese national who allegedly stole more than 500 files from Google with confidential information on the company's AI technology has been arrested and charged with steali...

A unfinished Boeing 737 Max sits outside Boeing's manufacturing facility in Renton, Wash., on Feb. 27, 2024. The top federal safety investigator says Boeing still has not provided key information that could shed light on what went wrong when a door plug blew off an in-flight 737 Max 9 in January. Jovelle Tamayo for ...

Efi Chalikopoulou for NPR The SAT, a college admissions exam that for nearly a century was completed using paper and pencil, is now officially all-digital. This week, students in the U.S. will begin taking the new SAT on their own devices — including a tablet or a laptop — or on school devices. The test is also one ...

In 1984, AT&T was formally broken up by the government. By most accounts it was a successful divestiture. But is it a model for the break up of the big tech companies that some are now calling for? AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Federal regulators and the Justice Department are taking a close look at whether the big tech comp...

Stefanie Bier was looking forward to catching up with friends working in legal technology when she headed to dinner near the glitzy Legalweek conference in New York City in late January. But by the end of the night, her group was reporting an alarming incident that sent shock waves through their industry.Bier, 37, i...

Ezra Croft has never filed an insurance claim, and his house in Raleigh, North Carolina isn't close to a stormy coastline or a fire-prone forest.So Croft was surprised when his annual homeowner's insurance premium shot up to $1,600, or $700 dollars more than he was paying just a couple of years ago. Related Story: 4...

A U.K. four-day workweek pilot has shown lasting benefits more than one year later. Dragon Claws The four-day workweek is proving to be the gift that keeps on giving. Companies that have tried it are reporting happier workers, lower turnover and greater efficiency. Now, there's evidence that those effects are long l...

The ExxonMobil logo appears above a trading post at the New York Stock Exchange. Richard Drew/AP ExxonMobil faces dozens of lawsuits from states and localities alleging the company lied for decades about its role in climate change and the dangers of burning fossil fuels. But now, ExxonMobil is going on the offensive...

A bronze statue honoring hometown hero and hall-of-fame rodeo roper Ikua Purdy in Waimea, Hawaii. Someone has been quietly buying hundreds of acres of land — stirring worries, speculation and a lot of questions among the locals. Ronit Fahl for NPR WAIMEA, Hawaii — A life-size bronze statue of a cowboy sits at the ce...

The U.S. Supreme Court Catie Dull/NPR The Supreme Court hears a pair of cases Monday that could help define the future of the Internet. Legal experts say they're the most important First Amendment cases in a generation. The question is whether states like Florida and Texas can force big social media platforms to car...

Dr. João Goulão, director-general of the General Directorate for Intervention on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies General Directorate, is widely credited with shifting Portugal's addiction response toward a focus on health care and treatment. Overdose deaths have plummeted. Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle/ v...

Talk to people addicted to street drugs in Lisbon, Portugal's capital, and you hear confusion and dismay over the carnage of overdose deaths taking place an ocean away in the U.S.Ana Batista, a soft-spoken woman in her 50s who's been addicted to heroin for years, said she hasn't lost a single friend or family member...

In this image from video provided by NASA, Steve Altemus, CEO and co-founder of Intuitive Machines, describes how it is believed the company's Odysseus spacecraft landed on the surface of the moon, during a news conference in Houston on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. NASA via AP CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private U.S. lunar l...

John Cheeks' lottery ticket matched the numbers posted online in January 2023. But when he tried to redeem his prize, he was repeatedly denied. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images When John Cheeks saw that the winning lottery numbers on the DC Lottery website matched his ticket in January 2023, he initially didn't know wha...

The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab on Nov. 8, 2021. NASA Since its first modules launched at the end of 1998, the International Space Station has been orbiting 250 miles above Earth. But at the end of 2030, NASA plans to crash the...