Flock Safety's cameras, like this one in Los Angeles, are being installed all over. But what are police departments, ICE, and other federal agents using them for? halbergman/Getty Images hide caption
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The Trump administration abruptly cut down more than 400 trees at Washington, D.C.'s historic East Potomac Golf Links last weekend. A federal judge has ordered testimony from two high-level officials with the Interior Department; the judge plans to hold another hearing Oct. 19. Tyrone Turner/WAMU for NPR hide caption
What if the missing piece is ADHD is emotional? Dr. Sasha Hamdani, author of Too Sensitive, makes the case. DrAfter123/Getty hide caption
One of the toughest parts of ADHD is left out of the diagnosis
Vehicles pass a utility pole brought down by the effects of Isaias on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026, in East Milton, Fla. Octavio Jones/AP hide caption
Margaret Hamilton sits in mock-up of Apollo the command module on display at MIT in 1969. File/AP hide caption
Margaret Hamilton, whose software sent humans to the moon, dies at 90
NASA's Crew-12 members gather for a portrait in the pressure suits they wore while departing the International Space Station inside the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. From left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, and European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot. NASA via Anil Menon hide caption
Naman Shah examines a patient at Monrovia Health Center, a Los Angeles County public health clinic in Monrovia, California. Shah says reducing medical debt in the community will depend on effective prevention strategies, just as stopping the spread of infectious disease does. Lauren Justice/KFF Health News and Tradeoffs hide caption
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gestures on stage at the Capital One Arena after President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States in Washington, DC on Monday, January 20, 2025. Ken Cedeno/UPI/Alamy Live News hide caption
Researchers say a small fossil from the middle Jurassic provides some of the oldest evidence of chewing and swallowing as well as suckling — all distinctly mammalian traits. Chang-Fu Zhou/Shandong University of Science and Technology hide caption
This surprising mammal fossil is giving scientists something to chew on
A Tsimane extended family gets ready for the morning, while a large pot of manioc roots cooks in preparation to make shocdye, a local fermented brew. Michael Gurven hide caption
Gut microbes followed migrating humans across continents, new study suggests
Portraits of Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai are shown on the screen as they are awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on Oct. 7, 2026. Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via AP hide caption
Emergency vehicles arrive at the scene after the failed execution of Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike. George Walker IV/AP Photos hide caption
A cat is being cared for at a rescue facility of an animal rights group after police raided an operation that steals and resells cats for meat in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam, Sept.17, 2026. Humane World for Animals/AP hide caption
FILE - A Nobel diploma and medal are displayed, Dec. 8, 2020, during a ceremony in New York. Angela Weiss/Pool AFP via AP hide caption
Olivia Sanderfoot of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is trying to understand how the smoke billowing off of wildfires is bothering birds — and what can be done to prevent that harm. Ari Daniel/NPR hide caption
A Finnish study found that some screen time can be beneficial for brain growth, but its author say, there are caveats. Matt Cardy/Getty Images hide caption
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel are shown on the screen as they are awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, as announced during a press conference at the Nobel Forum at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 5, 2026. Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency via AP hide caption
A little brown bat, once the most abundant species of bat in the eastern United States; white nose syndrome, a cave-dwelling fungus, has decimated their population. Bob Pool/Getty Images hide caption
How little brown bat genes are outsmarting a fungal killer
The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum's dinosaur skeleton exhibits have been popular with generations of children, since they first were exhibited in 1868. Andrew Stelzer for NPR hide caption
A study published in the journal Science Advances shows blood sugar is different when people eat alone versus with someone else. Thomas Barwick/Getty Images hide caption
Mohammad Attaie and his wife Deena, newly arrived from Afghanistan, get assistance from medical translator Jahannaz Afshar making a doctor's appointment at the Valley Health Center TB/Refugee Program in San Jose, Calif., on Dec. 9, 2021. Eric Risberg/AP hide caption
A prototype of the Project Suncatcher satellite at the Planet Labs facility in San Francisco, California. Planet Labs PBC hide caption
Google launches Project Suncatcher, a step towards AI data centers in space
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA's Crew-13 lifts off Thursday from Cape Canaveral, Fla. SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule "Grace" will take NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov to the International Space Station for about six months. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
A Valar Atomics microreactor is seen on a C-17 aircraft, without nuclear fuel, at March Air Reserve Base in California on Feb. 15. The reactor was transported from March Air Reserve Base to Hill Air Force Base in Utah. Matthew Daly/AP hide caption