Category: Science

A study suggests that Venus’ volcanic “pancake domes” push the planet’s crust down, forming bulges toward the surface. This could explain a decades-old mystery.

Moebius syndrome is a rare condition that affects several cranial nerves, impairing the muscles that control facial expressions and eye movements.

Ancient DNA from people buried up to 1,600 years ago in Honduras have revealed clues to the rise and fall of the Maya.

Our planet’s core is rich in gold that can leak out into the mantle, and in some cases, end up in volcanos on the surface

Three ancient Egyptians were buried in remarkable tombs with courtyards in a necropolis reserved for important people.

Inside Manu Prakash are two scientists. A bioengineer at Stanford University, he spends half his time studying urgent health issues with global impact and the

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the remote galaxy HerS 020941.1+001557, which appears as a red arc that partially encircles a foreground elliptical galaxy.

A Peruvian farmer has lost a decade-long legal climate case against Germany energy giant RWE. Saúl Luciano Lliuya claimed the company’s emissions had contributed to

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international correspondents share snapshots of moments from their lives and work around the world.

The discovery of a 43,000-year-old fingerprint in Spain is challenging the idea that Neanderthals were not capable of symbolic art.