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Georgia officials now allow the sale and soon the cultivation of water spinach. It can be an invasive species if not controlled.

Bird flu is an increasing threat to poultry producers and backyard chicken owners. They're preparing for the worst as wild birds' spring migration peaks in a few weeks.

A lot of people know a few Yiddish words, but few actually speak it outside Orthodox Judaism. During the pandemic, some secular Jews have taken up learning the language to reconnect to their heritage.

The Kitchen Sisters explore lost and found film and the world of found footage and ephemeral films, and the people who make, archive and collect home movies and amateur films. A project of Lost and Found Sound.

The Federal Reserve targets an inflation rate of 2 percent. Why 2 percent? And how close are we to the target?

A small but growing group of Israelis is staging a silent protest against the war while holding photos of Palestinian children killed in Gaza. Israeli police unsuccessfully tried to ban the protests.

There's a continuing rift in the GOP between Trump allies and those who urge the party to move away from the former president. State parties are censuring those who voted to impeach or convict Trump.

In his new book Electrified Sheep, Alex Boese explores a colorful side of science, filled with bizarre experiments and eccentric scientists, like the surgeon who decided to operate on himself, and Benjamin Franklin, who gave mouth-to-beak resuscitation to a bird.

The Texas blackout is a reminder that climate-driven extreme weather stresses the U.S.'s power system in many ways. Much is needed to harden the grid for the future as the number of outages increase.

How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity might be the year's first essential new book. NPR's Renita Jablonski picks up the book, and her cat, to see if he has what it takes to be a star on the Web.