HARDANGERSFJORD, NORWAY - Jørgen Wengaard steers around the rocky islands of a fjord, his boat cutting through the water’s ...

Author Travis Jonker and illustrator Matthew Cordell talk about the real model ship that inspired their picture book about a ...

Since the remnants of Hurricane Helene hit Asheville, most of the city has been without running water. The people of ...

Research into some areas of the world that have a lot of centenarians shows that some of those people are no longer alive.

At issue is whether the state court wrongly refused to accept the attorney general’s findings that a death row inmate is ...

Ants have farmed fungi for 66 million years, according to new work in the journal Science. It's a relationship that ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon about her poem engraved on NASA's spaceship headed 1.8 billion miles to the Jupiter moon of Europa.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Austen Flannery, a meteorologist at National Weather Service's Tampa Bay Office, about Hurricane Milton's current path toward Florida.

The brain's immune system is getting attention at the Society for Neuroscience in Chicago. A lot of research is now focused on the interaction of neurons, glial cells and other immune cells.

Researchers found that two individuals of a type of jellyfish can fuse and become one with a shared nervous system and digestive system. It has implications for animal regeneration and immune systems.

Hurricane Milton is bearing down on Florida's west coast. It's packing a powerful punch as a major hurricane and destined to bring a storm surge potentially up to 15 feet.

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to University of Toronto's Geoffrey Hinton and Princeton University's John Hopfield for their work on artificial intelligence.