Category: Science

Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.

Bears in Svalbard, Norway, are fatter than expected, and others in Greenland are showing signs of genetically adapting to climate change — but the signs

NPR’s Short Wave team talks about the surprising benefits of small talk, more humane ways to kill lobsters, and an ancient flood that may have

A study finds that less than half of surveyed parents know the legal age, 21, to buy cigarettes, vapes, nicotine pouches and other tobacco products.

Photographers caught a spectacular emerald-green fireball meteor streaking above Lindisfarne in northeast England, where Viking raiders famously killed and robbed Christian monks in the eighth

The strangler fig is a keystone species in the tropics, providing food and shelter, and a place to poop for 17 different mammal species.

A portion of the Moon’s far side is seen along the terminator—the boundary between lunar day and night—where low-angle sunlight casts long shadows across the

In a galaxy 500 million light-years away, two supermassive black holes could merge, spreading gravitational waves across the universe.

An ancient-DNA analysis of a rare Anglo-Saxon double burial revealed the people in the grave were brother and sister.

The Colorado River muscled its way through today’s Grand Canyon after pooling as a giant lake, according to new research.

Their sensitive facial hair may be the harbor seals superpower for tracking fish, scientists are learning. (Image credit: Robin Heinrich/Marine Science Center)

A neglected force produced by neutrinos and other particles helps atomic physics measurements align with predictions of the standard model.

After a 10-year effort, physicists got a value for “Big G” that does not settle the debate over one of nature’s hardest numbers to nail

A large hole opened up in the sun’s atmosphere this week, spewing high-speed solar winds that will paint northern lights displays across several U.S. states