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Researchers spent months eavesdropping on wild bonobos at a rainforest in Congo. Their research suggests the animals can use some features of language to communicate.

The lawsuit says that NIH has canceled more than 670 research grants, which were due more than $1.1 billion in funding.

Harvard professor Gregory Kestin is using AI to replicate himself as part of a tutoring experiment. NBC News' Gadi Schwartz visits the university to talk to Kestin about what he hopes to gain from the process.

The plans for the Future Circular Collider would create a nearly 91-kilometer (56.5-mile) loop along the French-Swiss border and below Lake Geneva.

The Fram2 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center on a Falcon9 rocket carrying four private citizens. The mission will be the first to orbit directly over Earth's North and South poles.

Global lithium demand is expected to grow by 40 times by 2040.

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spent 286 days on the International Space Station after their week-long mission was met with technical issues.

The interface works in real time, a development meant to avoid delays that can disrupt the natural flow of conversation and lead to miscommunication.

"We take the integrity of our criminal investigations and the reliability of our forensic testing very seriously," L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna said.

At least 10 sites have suspended or limited weather balloon launches, which used to occur twice daily, because of the Trump administration's cuts to the National Weather Service.