Man Who Is Paralyzed Communicates By Imagining Handwriting By decoding the brain signals involved in handwriting, researchers have allowed a man who is paralyzed to transform his thoughts into words on a computer screen. Jon Hamilton
Cats Take 'If I Fits I Sits' Seriously, Even If The Space Is Just An Illusion If you've spent any time around cats, you've seen them curl up in cozy spaces. A new study on feline cognition shows that they also like to sit in snug squares created by a kind of optical illusion. Nell Greenfieldboyce
Uncovering The Neuston, A Mysterious Living Island Of Sea Creatures NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with a researcher at the University of North Carolina Asheville, Rebecca Helm, about mysterious islands made of sea creatures floating on the ocean's surface.
To Bridge The Digital Divide, Biden Administration Launches Vaccine Hotline It's part of the administration's push to get 70% of adults in the U.S. vaccinated with at least one dose by July 4. Allison Aubrey
What Goes Up Must Come Down — Including A Giant Chinese Rocket Plunging Toward Earth U.S. Space Command says the exact entry point into Earth's atmosphere cannot be pinpointed until hours before its reentry, which is expected sometime around Saturday. Vanessa Romo
Space junk sleuths hunting for rocket fireball debris in NW Stargazers across the Pacific Northwest were treated to quite a light show in late March when the errant reentry of a spent rocket sent fireballs... Tom Banse
May 5th | What a decade’s worth of whale poop tells researchers about their health Find out how whale feces is saving the endangered killer whale. Swedish Hospital launches a Black Birth Empowerment Initiative, and the Tulalip Tribes are relocating ‘nuisance’ beavers to help protect the ecosystem. Bill Radke
A Fancy Bottle Of Wine That Went To Space Can Be Yours For Perhaps A Million Dollars The bottle of Pétrus 2000, a luxury wine that would normally cost about $6,500, spent 14 months on the International Space Station. Now, via Christie's, it can be yours. Becky Sullivan
EPA Moves To Cut A Group Of Powerful Greenhouse Gases The EPA plans to phase out hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, which are used in refrigerators and air conditioners. When HFCs are released into the atmosphere, they are extremely good at trapping heat. Rebecca Hersher
What Is An 'Internal Wave'? It Might Explain The Loss Of An Indonesian Submarine No cause has been established for the sinking earlier this month of the KRI Nanggala with 53 people aboard, but officials have suggested that it may have been due to an undersea wave. Scott Neuman
