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  • 1 week ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Nell Greenfieldboyce |Geoff Brumfiel

    If the U. S. does drop a powerful "bunker buster" bomb on a suspected underground nuclear weapons site in Iran, experts in radiation hazards see little risk of widespread contamination. The site in question, Iran's mysterious Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, is built into a mountainside and seems to be in the business of processing uranium isotopes. That means it would mostly be working with uranium in the form of a gas called uranium hexafluoride.

  • 1 month ago | envirolink.org | Nell Greenfieldboyce

    From NPRHells Canyon is the deepest river canyon in the United States. Now scientists have solved the mystery of when it formed. (Image credit: Matthew Morriss)

  • 1 month ago | mprnews.org | Nell Greenfieldboyce

    Hells Canyon, the deepest river gorge in the United States, likely got rapidly carved 2.1 million years ago when a shifting landscape in Idaho caused a giant lake to start overflowing. That's according to a new study that looked at ancient river sediments that have long been hidden away inside the canyon's caves, which now lie high above today's Snake River.

  • 1 month ago | wgbh.org | Nell Greenfieldboyce

    May 20, 2025 On an island in Panama, a fad that one researcher called “viscerally disturbing” has recently taken off among a group of young male monkeys. These adolescents and juveniles have started to kidnap the infants of another monkey species, seemingly just for kicks. That’s what scientists think after watching a bunch of male white-faced capuchin monkeys walking around with baby howler monkeys clinging to their backs.

  • 1 month ago | envirolink.org | Nell Greenfieldboyce

    From NPRHuman eyes have only seen a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the areas of the world that are covered by deep water. Scientists want to change how they explore these regions. (Image credit: NOAA)

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