That dusty box of beakers in the basement might be worth more than you'd guess ...

As part of NPR's 250th anniversary series America in Pursuit, we're taking a look back at one of America's most significant inventions: the telephone.

Billions of birds share the planet with us. With their flamboyant plumage and joyous dawn serenades, many of them are impossible to miss. But how did they get here, how did they break the bounds of ...

A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged.

NASA is about to launch a space observatory that could help settle some of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will study how the universe began, what it ...

Ancient volcanic rocks from Western Australia suggest that water was reaching deep into Earth’s interior more than three ...

At the national laboratory, the first light bulbs lit by nuclear power have given way to supercomputers, quantum research and ...

A 21-year-old Aboriginal man has died at the privately operated Clarence Correctional Centre, sparking fresh scrutiny over ...

Deeply etched into a cliff face in GunaiKurnai Country, near the township of Buchan in East Gippsland in rural Victoria, is a ...

Half a century after the first successful Mars landing, Viking's greatest legacy may be the questions it taught us to ask.

Big U.S. restaurant chains don’t get linked to foodborne illness outbreaks often. But the number of meals they serve causes a ...

The museum was renamed in 2024 to highlight megadonor Ken Griffin. Its founder did not want to put his own name on the ...