Dreams of flying? Nightmares of teeth falling out? Falling off a cliff? As a sleep scientist at the University of Montreal, Michelle Carr has pretty much heard it all. In Michelle’s new book Nightmare ...

Have you ever fantasized about going back in time to relive a moment — or change it? Maybe you’re more interested in ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon.

Marion Nestle says we should eat "real food, processed as little as possible." Justin Chang reviews Hamnet. Mary Roach ...

NPR's science podcast Short Wave shares how taking a nap can deliver a eureka moment, a new picture of a planet right after it was born, and how wildfires can affect water quality – after the fires ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave talk about a comet visiting from interstellar space, caterpillars that eat and break down plastic, and how animals' sense of smell varies by altitude.

The Short Wave team talks about spider origins, why the odds of having a girl or a boy aren't 50-50, and what the Orion constellation reveals about the life cycles of stars. Time now for our science ...

Hakeem Oluseyi, host of NOVA and GBH's podcast Particles of Thought, breaks down how his show tackles some of science's biggest and strangest questions.

NPR's Hannah Chinn and Emily Kwong talk about the microbes behind great-tasting chocolate, possible reasons for daytime drowsiness, and a curious observation about the poop of seabirds. And it is time ...

Scientists have found the first compelling evidence that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that typically declines as people age. The results of this 10-week study back earlier ...

A Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, made a shocking announcement to the world in 2018: He had secretly engineered the birth of the first gene-edited babies. The birth of the twins was seen as reckless ...

One thing has bucked the trend of rising prices: computing. Technological advances have underpinned a consistent drop in the ...