Fixing pickleball's noise problem Pickleball is one of America's fastest growing sports, but it has a noise problem. Bob Unetich is working to fix it.
Humans traveled less during COVID restrictions. Animals traveled more Animals being tracked by scientists tended to travel longer distances in the early months of the pandemic, when people stayed home. The wildlife also ventured closer to roads.
Octopuses tweak the RNA in their brains to adjust to warmer and cooler waters The California two-spot octopus can edit the RNA in its brain to produce different proteins as ocean temperatures fluctuate, a new study finds.
Volunteers helped tally terrapin turtles for science Scientists are relying more and more on non-scientists to help them gather data. That was the case recently on North Carolina's coast, where volunteers spent a day counting terrapin turtles.
Tune in for a livestream from Mars — a rare, almost real-time look into space On Friday 12 p.m. ET, spectators will have a chance to see the most current images of Mars possible, from the surface of the planet to Earth in 3 to 22 minutes, courtesy of the European Space Agency,
This week in science: a paralyzed man walks again and a sticker-like vaccine patch Short Wave hosts Emily Kwong and Regina Barber talk about a paralyzed man that walked again, a sticker vaccine and the science behind a crop of new RSV vaccines.
After a TikTok user rehabbed a couch from the curb, a bedbug expert urges caution If you acquire a piece of second-hand furniture that has bedbugs, even a thorough cleaning and time may not be enough to fully eradicate the Cimex lectularius from your furnishings.
She holds the NASA record for time spent in space. This week she headed back Before this week, Peggy Whitson had spent a cumulative 665 days in space over her career, giving her the NASA record. She's not done yet.
Saudi astronauts, including nation's 1st woman, catch a SpaceX flight to space station Saudi Arabia's first astronauts in decades rocketed toward the International Space Station on a chartered multimillion-dollar flight. The crew will spend just over a week there before returning home.
An 'extremely rare' rainbow sea slug was spotted along the coast of England The rare rainbow sea slug, or Babakina anadoni, is typically found in the warmer waters off Spain, Portugal and France.
