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For decades, scientists have been trying to create artificial blood to alleviate shortages and prevent people from bleeding to death. But those efforts have been repeatedly frustrated by failure.

NPR staff members share their picks for the best new video games of 2025, so far.

Medicaid work requirements are a prominent feature of the big federal budget bill, but working full time can jeopardize some people's health coverage.

Billions in funding President Biden awarded to reduce the 10% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions that come from agriculture is being called a "slush fund," and clawed back by the Trump administration.

The killing of a 114-year-old man by a speeding car last week brings back the spotlight on road safety in India, where authorities say accidents kill more than a hundred thousand people every year.

The days have been shorter than normal, at least if you count your time in milliseconds.

Bail Funds — where community members donate money to help others post bail — exploded in popularity after the 2020 protests against police brutality. Since then, they've faced political blowback, and a wave of legislation working to restrict them.

The actor and Grammy Award winner died in a drowning accident Sunday while on vacation in Costa Rica.

A Delta Connection flight from Minneapolis was preparing to land in Minot, N.D., when crew members spotted a large military aircraft flying toward them.

Alek Hermon didn't think much of his father's overnight nurse until his father died.