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Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences, which has produced a trio of modern-day dire wolves and the woolly mouse, seeks to bring back extinct species.

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As President Trump delivered his State of the Union address, reporters from across NPR's newsroom, are fact checking his speech and offer context.

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We may be missing alien radio signals because they have become smeared beyond the narrowband detectors that SETI utilizes, a new study suggests.