Browsing: week

‘If you put your hands out and run your fingers along this skirt, you’ll feel that there are soft feathers appliquéd on to it,” says the…

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR’s Short Wave podcast talk about the mysterious structure of ice, parents’ heightened tolerance for disgust, and how penguins are…

NPR’s Short Wave talks about elephants’ sniffing abilities, the remarkable migration of painted lady butterflies and a surprising discovery about the early universe.

President Trump began the year with huge plans and a GOP in lockstep, but heading into 2026 there are cracks in his support that could affect…

My middle school experience was hard in all the familiar ways: friendship breakups, tween insecurities and the classic diary entries that “nobody could possibly understand me”.…

A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space.Discovered over the summer, the comet…

Despite being in control of the White House and Congress, Republicans have been unable to pass their health care agenda. We look at why that’s the…

President Trump faces some uncomfortable political realities — from another resurfacing of the 2021 attack on the Capitol, to the pendulum of midterm elections.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is under scrutiny over strikes in the Caribbean and Yemen, and the Supreme Court sided with Republicans in a case over gerrymandering…

It was a busy week in Washington, from foreign policy to Congressional redistricting and another special election. NPR’s Domenico Montanaro and Tamara Keith break down the…