A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of 20 Starlink satellites is seen in the evening sky above Lawndale, Calif., after being launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 18, 2024. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally, whose front flipper was amputated after she was rescued in January suffering from predator wounds, crawls toward the Atlantic Ocean after being released, on the beach in front of Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, Fla., Wednesday, June 4, 2025. Rebecca Blackwell/AP hide caption
Jonathan Alperstein, one of the researchers, excavates a portion of land on an ancient agricultural site in Michigan. Jesse Casana hide caption
A sign warns of an air quality alert as smoke from wildfires burning in Canada reaches Minneapolis on Tuesday. Mark Vancleave/AP hide caption
Researcher Hannah Doyle calibrates the AOSLO system prior to an Oz Vision experiment. Ren Ng hide caption
People await the update on ispace's private lunar lander's attempt to touch down on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. Kyodo News/AP hide caption
Homes destroyed by a 2020 wildfire in Talent, Ore. FEMA denied about 70% of assistance applications related to massive Oregon wildfires that year, an NPR investigation found. The agency has a long history of failing to help vulnerable disaster survivors, but reforms under the Biden administration were starting to fix those long-standing problems. Noah Berger/AP hide caption
Struggling to have a second child, astronaut Kellie Gerardi uses her social media presence to let others know they're not alone. Emily Farthington hide caption
A study of mice and people looks at how the brain takes an experience and responds with an emotion.
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Humans have been fascinated by the anglerfish for a long time (check out this engraving from 1893). But how did this deep sea predator first evolve? New research sheds light on the bathypelagic fish's evolutionary history. Getty Images hide caption
The inside of a cell is a complicated orchestration of interactions between molecules. KEITH CHAMBERS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY hide caption
A new study from Yale University finds that singing to babies lifts their moods. Joao Inacio/Getty Images hide caption
James Henriksen with Colorado State University holds up a water sample for Harvard colleague Braden Tierney. The bag is teeming with microbes that they hope may help solve some of humanity's big problems. Ari Daniel/NPR hide caption
Clownfish swim at the Ocearium in Le Croisic, western France, on December 6, 2016. Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Sailors have reported mysterious "milky seas," or miles-long glowing patches of ocean for centuries. Some researchers have created a database to figure out why they glow. Steven D. Miller/CIRA/CSU and NOAA/NESDIS hide caption
The northern lights illuminate the night sky in Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada, during a geomagnetic storm on May 12, 2024. Geoff Robins/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
An abandoned vehicle sits along the Swannanoa River in a landscape scarred by Hurricane Helene, on March 24, near Swannanoa, N.C. Sean Rayford/Getty Images hide caption
Joe Walsh, who has Alzheimer's disease, is accompanied by his wife, Karen Walsh, to an appointment at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Joe is receiving an experimental therapy to treat Alzheimer's. Jodi Hilton/for NPR hide caption
The sun begins to set beyond an oil refinery in California. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
Valerie the mini dachshund, at home in mid-May. Georgia Gardner hide caption
A group of researchers primarily based at the University of Auckland in New Zealand set out to study neutrophils, a type of immune cell. After watching how fluorescent bacteria interacted with fluorescent neutrophils in transparent baby zebrafish, they found that the immune cells can indeed tell whether it's night or day. matheesaengkaew/Getty Images hide caption
The Supreme Court narrowed the scope of environmental reviews for major infrastructure projects. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption