The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

The Loh Down on Science is the fun way to get your daily dose of science -- in less than two minutes! Writer/performer and Caltech alumna Sandra Tsing Loh explains the world of science with a dash ...

Louisiana has two problems: an eroding coastline and limited glass recycling. Engineer Franziska Trautmann is solving both by ...

Regina G. Barber is a co-host of Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. Barber completed her PhD in physics at Washington State University with a focus in astrophysics, studying globular cluster systems.

Greetings, fellow science nerds! Yackety Science -- the egg-headed yet breezy brainchild of co-hosts Brian Cross and Matt Smith, who are both science profs at Tulsa Community College -- is a twice ...

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NPR's science correspondent Pien Huang visited the grow facility for District Cannabis, which sells weed in Washington D.C. and Maryland. On her tour, she learned why cannabis smells the way it does.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Mehrzad Boroujerdi, with Missouri University of Science and Technology, about potential regime change in Iran as an objective of Israel's attacks on the country.

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: It is time, once again, for our science news roundup from Short Wave. That is NPR's science podcast. Reporting this time, Regina Barber and Rachel Carlson. Welcome, you two.

The White House is one step closer to defunding public radio. The House has voted to claw back all federal funding for public media, and the proposal now moves to the Senate.

Blue Dot, named after Carl Sagan's famous speech about our place in the universe, features interviews with guests from all over the regional, national and worldwide scientific communities. Host ...