Short Wave

Ever eat a full meal ... and find you still have room for dessert? If so, you're not alone... more

What happens when a team of scientists and local Awajún guides go on a 38-day trip into th... more

Asked ChatGPT anything lately? Talked with a customer service chatbot? Read the results of... more

Physics has a bit of a messy problem: There's matter missing in our universe. Something is... more

For years, scientists have known that oxytocin is important in facilitating the feeling of... more

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is one of the deadliest tickborne diseases in the United Stat... more

The U.S. tested nuclear weapons until the early 1990s. Since then, scientists have been us... more

For people with two hands, one is usually dominant. On a molecular level, life takes this ... more

What do large crowds of people and water have in common? They both act like fluids. When c... more

For a long time, microbes like the ones in Yellowstone's hot springs were studied in isola... more

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up, well, everything. They're icons of destruction,... more

Ecologist [Gergana Daskalova] (https://gndaskalova.com/) moved back to the small Bulgarian... more

In a world brimming with innovation and limited time, it can be hard to tell what technolo... more

Farts are funny and sometimes smelly. But are they a legitimate topic of research? More th... more

Bird flu, or avian influenza, is spreading among livestock and other mammals in the United... more

Put on your headphones. In today's episode, host [Emily Kwong] (https://www.npr.org/people... more

At least, it's contagious among a group of captive chimpanzees at the Kumamoto Sanctuary. ... more

Around the turn of the century, 3.8 million people banded together in a real-time search f... more

Forests are the lungs of our planet. Not only do they absorb carbon dioxide and create oxy... more

On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration announced it is banning the dye called Red ... more

Imagine the tree of life. The tip of every branch represents one species, and if you follo... more

When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? For [Jingmai O'Connor] (https://paleo... more

The COVID-19 mRNA vaccine generates enough of an antibody response to protect against seve... more

Air quality in the Los Angeles region has plummeted due to smoke from the ongoing wildfire... more

Over 29,000 acres in the greater Los Angeles area are on fire right now. The fires emerged... more

Fluoridating the public water supply has been common practice for nearly 80 years in the U... more

Some weapons used by the U.S. military are so powerful they can pose a threat to the peopl... more

There are hundreds of atomic clocks in orbit right now, perched on satellites all over Ear... more