Researchers have discovered a new dinosaur species in Thailand. It’s the largest dinosaur ever found in Southeast Asia.
The dinosaur would have been about 90 feet long and weighed about 30 tons. It was a sauropod, a type of dinosaur that eats plants and has a long neck and tail. Nagatitan lived between 100 to 120 million years ago. It gives clues about how dinosaurs got even bigger later on.
It is the 14th named dinosaur discovered in Thailand, and experts are excited about the expanding fossil record from the region.
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Farmers and elephants in Sri Lanka are locked into a deadly battle over limited space and resources. The Mideast war may make it worse.
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Indonesia now produces more than half the world’s nickel supply. Most of the country’s mining is concentrated on the island of Sulawesi, transforming once-small villages into mining hubs that come at a cost to the environment and public health.
Chile peppers are a traditional part of Indian cuisine — and a key crop for women farmers. They say it's too demanding for men. "In spite of the challenges," says one, "we've found freedom."
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The design of this year's World Cup ball comprises only four panels. It features graphics for the three host countries, embossed on the ball: a blue star for the U.S., a red maple leaf for Canada and a green eagle for Mexico. Its name, “Trionda,” is Spanish for three waves.
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Sports physicist John Goff said the symbols embossed on the surface of the ball and its grooves make it slightly rougher than its predecessors, which could cause some minor drag while it is traveling through the air.
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“My colleagues and I are very interested to see if these balls travel a little less far than the balls have in the past,” he said.
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Sales of nicotine pouch products have exploded in recent years, with the global market now worth nearly $7 billion. A new report from the World Health Organization concludes that rapid growth is being driven by aggressive marketing that targets young people.
The WHO says the tactics being used to market nicotine pouches include flavors such as bubble gum and gummy bears, and packaging that mimics the look of candy. Dr. Ranti Fayokun, of the WHO, says flavored products are a known way to hook young users. She says some products are even marketed for use in schools, and they can contain alarming levels of the highly addictive nicotine.
The WHO report urges countries to adopt a range of regulations, including marketing restrictions and bans on flavored nicotine pouch products.
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Here’s what happened in health care this week:
➡️ President Trump’s FDA commissioner Marty Makary is out of a job.
➡️ Americans who were on that cruise ship with the hantavirus outbreak are back in the country and being monitored. That includes one passenger who tested positive.
➡️ The Trump administration launched a new website called moms.gov to offer guidance and information for mothers. The site contains a prominent link to crisis pregnancy centers, which try to persuade people with unplanned pregnancies not to get abortions.
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The family of one of the people killed in last year’s shooting at Florida State University is suing OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. An attorney representing the family says logs show the accused gunman used ChatGPT for advice on how to carry out his attack.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced last month that his office is conducting a criminal investigation into OpenAI for their involvement in the shooting. Uthmeier told reporters that the suspect consulted ChatGPT for advice before the shooting, including what type of gun to use and what ammunition went with it.
A spokesperson for OpenAI says the company is not responsible for the shooting. They say the platform did not encourage harmful activity, but provided factual responses to questions with information that could be found broadly across public sources on the internet.
Meanwhile, the families of seven victims of a school shooting in February in Canada announced last month that they were suing OpenAI for negligence. A teacher and five 12- and 13-year-old students, as well as the suspect’s mother and 11-year-old half-brother were killed in the attack. 27 others were injured before the gunman killed herself. The shooter used ChatGPT in the run-up to the shooting, and the families of the victims allege the company didn’t do enough to notify authorities of the imminent danger.
In a statement, OpenAI said it had strengthened safeguards in the wake of the shooting, which was one of the deadliest in Canadian history.
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NPR critic-at-large Eric Deggans examines how movie-star casting is changing opportunities for the working actors who shaped television for decades.
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The Supreme Court has issued an order that keeps the abortion drug mifepristone available through telehealth prescriptions — for now.
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After more than two years of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the destruction there is overwhelming. According to the United Nations, most buildings there have been damaged or destroyed, and many bodies remain buried under rubble. Crews have begun efforts to recover those remains, including victims from one of the war's deadliest Israeli attacks, which occurred in late 2024. NPR investigated that attack, on an apartment building in Gaza, and mapped a family tree of 132 relatives killed there.
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President Trump is a little more than halfway through a three-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The trip is being covered in detail by news outlets from around the world, but the president himself has been uncharacteristically quiet on his social media platform.
NPR White House correspondent Franco Ordonez explains why to Sources & Methods host @marylouisekelly1 .
