Category: Science

The Trump administration’s 2026 budget request cuts NASA funding by $6 billion, which would lead to the cancellation of Mars sample-return and other high-profile missions.

The latest Mount Etna eruption triggered an avalanche of volcanic material and sent ash miles into the air. Spectacular photos and videos capture the eruption

A new satellite has captured the first direct evidence of a mysterious nine-day seismic signal that shook the world in 2023.

The Blueair Classic Pro CP7i is the first air purifier with High-Intensity Narrow Spectrum (HINS) lighting — a technology that removes viruses and bacteria using

As artificial intelligence seeps into some realms of society, it rushes into others. One area it’s making a big difference is protein science — as

A new study from Yale University finds that singing to babies improves their overall mood. NPR wants to know what songs our listeners sing to

Clownfish in Papua New Guinea are temporarily shrinking in response to heat stress caused by climate change, a new study found. Here’s how that might

Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving fresh clues about the origin of a new class of mysterious objects.

Researchers have found that cats spend longer sniffing a stranger’s odor than their owner’s odor, suggesting they can distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar humans from

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it’s too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last Theorem, a central problem

Italy’s Mount Etna has erupted in spectacular fashion, sending ash, gas, and other volcanic material high into the sky above Sicily. Watch footage of the