NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of Short Wave about the fluid dynamics of crowds, an early fossil of a modern bird and new data on how people's moods change through the day.

The former rescue feline joined the British diplomatic service in 2016 and gained a large following online for fulfilling his ...

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission captured an X1.1-class solar flare. See time-lapse footage of the blast that caused "a strong shortwave radio blackout over South America," ...

Ecologist Gergana Daskalova moved back to the small Bulgarian town of her childhood. It's a place many people have abandoned ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an X1.1-class solar flare in multiple wavelengths. See time-lapse footage of the ...

The service branch is in the early development stages of a five-year contract for cyber services to support its High Frequency Global Communications System.

In a world brimming with innovation and limited time, it can be hard to tell what technology has the potential to really ...

The 320-ton rotating curtain antenna in Moosbrunn, Austria, was dismantled this week as part of the decommissioning of the ...

SATURDAY’S WORD was behemoth, meaning any creature or thing of monstrous size or power. Example: The museum’s centerpiece, a behemoth dinosaur skeleton, towers over visitors.

RNZ International (RNZI) began broadcasting to the Pacific region 35 years ago — on 24 January 1990, the same day the ...

This Braille Literacy Month, Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave podcast reports on the writing system and how some researchers are working to lessen the national shortage of qualified braille educators.