The Back to the Future franchise brought a lot of joy to the world, but what you might not know is that it also brought us ...

An electric eel doesn’t bite first. It fires. Its body is packed with thousands of specialized electrocytes — biological cells stacked like batteries. When triggered, they discharge in perfect ...

Politicians blame renewables and data centers, but those aren't the main causes of rising costs.

The Trump administration upended federal funding for all kinds of scientific pursuits, slashing budgets across agencies like NASA, NIH and NOAA. NPR's Rob Stein and Katia Riddle spoke to scientists ...