This week in science: the generational effects of nuclear radiation discovered in the children of Chernobyl cleanup workers; ...

This week in science: Mysterious molecules on Mars are tricky to explain without life; a compound that cuts cholesterol as a ...

It's time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. And I'm joined now by Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy from the show. Hi to both of you. BERLY MCCOY, BYLINE: Hi, Juana.

This week, a 120-million-year-old dinosaur trackway has revealed the fastest Cretaceous theropod ever discovered, Little Foot, one of the most complete early hominin fossils, may actually be an ...

This week, researchers investigating the origins of imagination have sat down for a tea party with Kanzi the bonobo, scientists were met with an unexpected discovery while peering into the fossilized ...

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"We don’t know where they are,” said NASA’s planetary defense officer Kelly Fast at the AAAS conference in Arizona this week.

In the ChatGPT era, a war over the nature of intelligence is playing out. Chris Stokel-Walker explores a Princeton professor's engaging take ...

NPR's Short Wave talks about elephants' sniffing abilities, the remarkable migration of painted lady butterflies and a surprising discovery about the early universe. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station ...

The first solar eclipse of the year will grace Antarctica, and only a lucky few will get to bask – or waddle – in its glow.