U.S.-Russia nuclear weapons treaty has expired. What happens now?
The treaty between the U.S. and Russia limiting their deployment of strategic nuclear weapons has expired, leaving plenty of questions about what U.S. President Donald
7,500-year-old deer skull headdress discovered in Germany indicates hunter-gatherers shared sacred items and ideas with region’s first farmers
The discovery of a deer skull headdress and tools made from antlers at the site of a New Stone Age farming village suggests that hunter-gathers
How well can AI and humans work together? Scientists are turning to Dungeons & Dragons to find out
D&D is being used as a benchmark to see how well models can make long-term plans, adhere to rules and strategize with a team.
Can’t solve a puzzle? Sleep on it, a new study suggests
NPR’s Short Wave talks about babies’ perceptions of rhythm, how sleep may help us solve puzzles and why snakes may be able to fast so
Daily sudoku: Take a break with this classic numbers puzzle
Get a new challenge every day with our free online sudoku puzzle.
The Winter Olympics in Italy were meant to be sustainable. Are they?
Italy’s Winter Olympics promised sustainability. But in Cortina, environmentalists warn the Games could scar these mountains for decades. (Image credit: Valerio Muscella for NPR)
Watch: Bad Bunny lookalikes compete ahead of Super Bowl
The Puerto Rican rapper, who won a Grammy for album of the year, will be the first artist to perform the half time show entirely
Canada dispatches senior officials to open Greenland consulate
It was planned before Trump said he wanted the Arctic island but Canada says the move is a show of solidarity with Greenlanders.
Watch: The US and Russia’s nuclear treaty is dead. What comes next?
The expiration of New START means there are no limits on nuclear weapons between both countries for the first time since 1991.
What’s happened since Savannah Guthrie’s mother disappeared?
Police have offered a reward of $50,000 for information on the disappearance, while the FBI says it is reviewing two ransom notes.
Texas GOP bans unhinged MAGA candidate from its events after she harassed an 84-year-old
The Texas Republican Party recently banned Islamophobic, anti-LGBTQ+ GOP candidate Valentina Gomez from all of its events. The state GOP said she disrupted its recent
With GPT-5.3-Codex, OpenAI pitches Codex for more than just writing code
Today, OpenAI announced GPT-5.3-Codex, a new version of its frontier coding model that will be available via the command line, IDE extension, web interface, and
“ICE Out of Our Faces Act” would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition
A few Senate Democrats introduced a bill called the ‘‘ICE Out of Our Faces Act,” which would ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs
Much of £11bn Covid scheme fraud ‘beyond recovery’, report says
The response to the pandemic led to “enormous outlays of public money which exposed it to the risk of fraud and error”, a report says.