Science

The Story A recent roundup of science news from NPR’s Short Wave podcast covers three new findings. A study in Science Advances reports that bean plants...

The Story Scientists report that the planetary system around the red dwarf star LHS 1903 contains a rocky world orbiting farther out than two gas giant...

The Story A study using data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft indicates that some lightning flashes on Jupiter may be 100 times stronger than lightning on Earth,...

The Story An international team including a scientist from Aston University has developed a unified mathematical framework that explains the two distinct forms of rhythmic pulse...

The Story Physicists at Peking University have uncovered a new way to confine light beyond conventional limits using dielectric materials instead of metals. The team discovered...

The Story A study from University College Cork (UCC) found that early-life consumption of high-fat, high-sugar foods may rewire the brain in ways that persist into...

The Story A Cornell University research team published a study in the journal Apidologie documenting an immense colony of about 5.5 million subterranean bees of the...

The Story Researchers from Brown University and the University of Michigan have stabilized a previously theoretical intermediate crystal phase by stacking custom-shaped silver nanoparticles. The material,...

The Story Researchers at the National University of Singapore found that caffeine restored communication between neurons in a brain region responsible for social memory after sleep...

The Story New DNA evidence indicates that in Neolithic Belgium, women from farming communities married into hunter-gatherer groups, likely spreading agricultural knowledge. The research also shows...