NPR's Short Wave talks about elephants' sniffing abilities, the remarkable migration of painted lady butterflies and a ...

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development is progressing on a $128 million I-20 rehabilitation project. Motorists can now use both westbound lanes on I-20 through much of the ...

Students with Osborn School District in Phoenix harvested fresh greens. The greens were grown at the district's hydroponic farm. "It’s like a really cool science project," one student said. PHOENIX - ...

La Sagrada Familia by Antoni Gaudi. Image by Maksim Sokolov, via Wikimedia Commons, License CC BY-SA 4.0 Together, these projects highlight the architectural ambitions shaping the year ahead, from ...

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A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science. By Aatish Bhatia, Amy Fan, Jonah Smith and Irena Hwang In the past decade, the National Institutes of Health ...

Santa inspired by St. Nicholas, a 4th-century bishop known for kindness and secret gift-giving. Santa's red suit popularized by Coca-Cola, earlier depictions showed him in bishop's attire. Santa's ...

In an eleventh-hour attempt to slow down global warming, some scientists have been proposing — or even testing, at a small scale — whether releasing aerosolized particles into the atmosphere to dim ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. In the past, we’ve featured year-end roundups of cool science ...