We talk with a NOAA scientist about the Northern Lights, and why their visibility seems to be increasing.
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Are sleep trackers on your phone helping you get a full night's rest? NPR's Life Kit investigates.
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Evan Frost for NPRPrediction market apps are thriving in Trump's second term, with traders betting on migrant deportations to election outcomes. A community of young, mostly male and very online traders are driving the industry's bonanza.
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A global study published this week by the Brookings Institution weighs the pros and cons of using artificial intelligence in K-12 classrooms, and finds the risks outweigh the benefits — at least for now.
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Elon Musk's social media company X says it will block its AI chatbot Grok from creating explicit images of real people after governments around the world launched investigations into the feature.
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As President Trump approaches one year back in office, the policies his administration pursues — and how those policies are communicated — have been increasingly shaped by social media. -
Verizon says a software problem caused the glitch and it is conducting a postmortem, but experts say outages are "a fact of life" these days. -
Starlink is illegal in Iran, but people are still using the satellite internet service to get around the government's internet shutdown. -
A Cornell University team released lab mice that had previously lived in cages the size of a shoebox into a large, enclosed field.
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Verizon customers across the U.S. were affected by a widespread outage Wednesday. NPR's A Martinez asks Lee McKnight of Syracuse University about vulnerabilities in the nation's wireless grid.
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Four people from NASA's Crew-11 mission splashed down off San Diego, successfully completing five months aboard the International Space Station. The trip was cut short due to a medical issue. -
The four members of NASA's Crew-11 mission are heading home from the International Space Station. Their journey is ending a month early due to an astronaut with a "serious medical condition."
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Some safety experts want California to stop the cutting of quartz countertops saying it can't be done safely. Lawmakers, meanwhile, contemplate a ban on workers' lawsuits against quartz manufacturers.
