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  1. Health & Medicine

    NIH research grant cuts could deal a biting blow to crucial support staff

    The funding agency aims to cap “indirect costs” in biomedical research grants. But this behind-the-scenes work is crucial to making research happen.

    By McKenzie Prillaman and Alex Viveros
  2. Animals

    How a mushroom coral goes for a walk without legs

    Time-lapse video shows how a mushroom coral polyp pulses and inflates, flinging its soft body into micro-hops to slowly move itself to a new location.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Earth

    Even epic rainfall may not be enough to refill SoCal’s aquifers

    More than a dozen atmospheric rivers dumped rainfall on California in 2023 but replenished only 25 percent of the water lost from aquifers since 2006.