It's time for our science news roundup from Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. I am joined by Emily Kwong and Jessica Yung - good to have you both back here. EMILY KWONG, BYLINE: Hi, Ari. JESSICA YUNG ...

In the warm waters emanating from Ontario's largest nuclear plant, fish are gathering by the thousands. Ahead of an Earth Day ...

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Evolution has created some pretty crazy things, and the head of this fish is definitely one of them. The rockhead poacher (Bothragonus swanii) is small, armored, and shaped remarkably like a stone.

Mesopelagic fish, long overlooked in ocean chemistry, are now proven to excrete carbonate minerals much like their shallow-water counterparts—despite living in dark, high-pressure depths. Using the ...

A giant fish in Asia’s Mekong River that scientists believed to be extinct has been spotted three times after almost 20 years, according to a new study. The “ghost’ fish,” a large salmon carp, is ...

Microplastic fibers from synthetic clothing have quietly become one of the most pervasive forms of pollution in rivers, oceans, and even agricultural soil. Now a new “fish mouth” filter, modeled on ...

It wasn’t an ancient boomerang. It was, in fact, a fish — albeit unlike any known today. Beyond that, nobody’s quite sure what to make of Pegasus volans. The fish’s ribbonlike body, known from two ...

In 2023, Massachusetts made national history. Gov. Maura Healey signed Executive Order 618, committing Massachusetts to set biodiversity conservation goals to protect land and water, restore critical ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Emily Kwong and Jessica Yung about hearing regeneration in fish and lizards, cures for the loneliness epidemic, and the secrets of a radiation-resistant microorganism.