A World Cup fever is sweeping Brazil. So is sports betting. NPR's Julia Carneiro reports on the country's gambling boom and the growing concerns about debt and addiction.
NASA Used AI to Drive Its Perseverance Mars Rover for the First Time NASA used Anthropic's Claude for an experiment in plotting the rover's course, which the agency deemed successful. Plotting a course for NASA's Perseverance rover, 140 million miles away on Mars, is significantly more difficult than setting a driving route here on Earth, where we can punch an address into Google...
Ebola outbreak in DR Congo: Angry crowd sets Rwampara hospital tents on fire2 hours agoEmery MakumenoBBC Africa, KinshasaReutersThe unrest highlights the struggle authorities face as cases of the virus riseAn angry crowd set alight a section of a hospital at the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after family and friends of a young man thought to have...
My Allergy Survival Kit: 5 Products Keeping My Itchy Eyes at Bay This SpringEvery spring, as much as I enjoy the blossoming of flowers and extra greenery, I dread their effect on me: a stuffy nose, red, itchy eyes and general sinus discomfort. As a seasonal allergy sufferer, this is sadly something I've become used to, but in the process, I've built an allergy toolkit of products that help me...
As Trump dismantles asylum programs, Russians and Ukrainians fear for future The Trump administration has been sending asylum seekers from Ukraine and Russia back to a warzone. One family in Minnesota says they fear for their lives.
NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Was Stuck in a Rock: Watch It Free ItselfProblems in space can be complex and dangerous. But NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spent the end of April embroiled in a much simpler problem: It got stuck in a rock.Curiosity's woes began on April 25 when it drilled into a 28-pound rock NASA nicknamed Atacama. In a moment that could've come straight out of a Flintstones episode,...