NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Emily Kwong and Jessica Yung of Short Wave about ancient evidence of hot water on Mars, indigenous people's cultivation of hazelnuts, and an inauspicious fish sighting.

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neighbors some 1.5 million ...

Across the country, Native American tribes are struggling to reclaim what was stolen from them over centuries: the remains of ...

A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

Currently 23 students are enrolled in the Black Studies program studying for a minor. Timothy Lewis plans to expand it to include a major in the near future.

Scientists say an unprecedentedly bad year for beached dolphins on Cape Cod might have to do with warming waters changing the ...

Unlike kids in the United States, hunter-gatherer children in the Congo Basin have often learned how to hunt, identify edible plants and care for babies by the tender age of six or seven. This rapid ...

Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they ...

While most people hear the word cannabis and think of marijuana, which is illegal in Wisconsin, professors at UWSP say the ...

A new crop of Sci-Fi shows is blurring and expanding the genre's boundaries in ways that echo our current reality.

Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host and veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has a long history of distorting and denying ...

Tennis Channel analyst Jon Wertheim was suspended indefinitely for "unprofessional" comments about a female player while on air. It was a hot-mic moment for Wertheim, also a "60 Minutes ...