Cabernet is the most popular red wine in the U.S. Can it endure climate change? Bold cabernet sauvignon wines made Napa Valley famous. Now, hotter temperatures are starting to damage the grapes, so some wineries are starting to experiment. Lauren Sommer
With no crew aboard, spacecraft Starliner lands without a hitch The spacecraft landed in New Mexico early Saturday morning leaving two astronauts behind on the International Space Station. The crew members will return to earth in February aboard a SpaceX craft. Nell Greenfieldboyce
Humpback whales make custom fishing nets — out of bubbles To target the tiny prey they depend on, humpbacks have developed a way of trapping them with nets made out of bubbles. A new study shows exactly how they do it. Lauren Sommer
This week in science: a newly-discovered species, 'talking' dogs and a beluga's death NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Regina Barber and Rachel Carlson of Short Wave about a newly discovered species in California's Mono Lake, dogs understanding words, and the death of a beloved beluga whale. Regina Barber
The state of space travel privatization after Boeing's Starliner difficulties On Friday, Boeing's troubled Starliner spacecraft heads back to Earth. WBUR Newsroom
Could you live without shopping for a year? Try the 'no-buy challenge' The goal is to save money, cut back on overconsumption and be more mindful of wasteful and unsustainable shopping habits. This guide can help you start a challenge of your own. Stacey Vanek Smith
T.D. Lee changed science in China and my life. This is what I owe to him Chinese particle physicist Yangyang Cheng reflects on the legacy of the late Nobel laureate T.D. Lee — how his ideas changed her life, and the limit to his engagement with Beijing. Yangyang Cheng
The world's longest trackway of dinosaur footprints is just a hike away More than 150-million years ago, a dinosaur longer than a school bus tromped through a squishy riverbed in southwest Colorado. Its footprints stayed there, frozen in time.
Beloved 'Russian spy whale' Hvaldimir is found dead under mysterious circumstances A beloved beluga whale with a mysterious past was found dead in the waters of Norway over the weekend. Admirers are paying tribute as authorities investigate. Rachel Treisman
Puente Hills fault poses bigger earthquake threat than the San Andreas A 4.4 magnitude earthquake in Los Angeles in August was along the Puente Hills fault system, a thrust fault that runs beneath one of the city's oldest and most densely populated areas.
