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New rules from Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency (Anac) take effect on Monday (14) to punish passengers whose behavior endangers the safety, order or physical integrity of people at airports and aboard aircraft. The penalties provided for under Anac Resolution No. 800/2026 may include suspension of the right to board domestic flights for up to…

Paleontology can be quite physical. In 2016, David DeMar was doing field work in the rocky badlands of Montana in what’s known as the Hell Creek Formation. “We all get down on our hands and knees,” he recalls. “And I start crawling up the hill and I noticed this little dark, round object on the…

“People are still afraid of those three letters,” says Gareth Thomas, a former Welsh rugby star. He’s talking about HIV. Thomas became a global champion for people living with HIV when he announced that he was HIV positive in 2019. Since then, he has been a strong advocate for sharing knowledge about the virus –-…

Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold, due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Nino, according to the European climate service Copernicus. August’s sizzle also helped push the globe and the United States to swelter through the hottest…

60 years ago, NBC aired the first episode of Star Trek, a television show that became a pop culture phenomenon. The original series starred William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk, who led his diverse crew of humans and at least one alien, on adventures in space. “Space: The Final Frontier. These are the voyages…

It’s Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer — and the beginning of another school year. From coast to coast, about 54 million students are returning to classrooms — some familiar, some entirely new. Every school marks the first day in its own way. Reporters from NPR and its member stations visited four schools around…

A week after powerful flash floods devastated riverside communities in Tibet and Nepal and killed more than 1,000 people, rescuers are still racing to locate survivors who may be trapped inside about a dozen hydropower plants buried under the mud. But to rescue them, one man overseeing part of the rescue says, first they have…

Gloria Steinem, a trailblazing journalist and activist who devoted her life to fighting for women’s rights, died on Wednesday. She was 92. Her passing was announced in a statement posted on her Instagram. It did not give a cause of death. “Gloria Steinem passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by…

In the fall of 2002, scientists calculated the mass of a truly gargantuan entity at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. It was four million times the mass of our Sun — so big it almost certainly had to be a supermassive black hole. The object “probably looks like Interstellar,” says Stefan Gillessen, an…

Brazilian Alison dos Santos, also known as Piu, broke the world record in the 400-meter hurdles by clocking 45.80 seconds at the Diamond League in Zurich, Switzerland, an elite track and field competition. On Thursday afternoon (Aug. 27), Piu finished the race 14 hundredths of a second faster than the previous record holder, Norway’s Karsten…