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As Nuclear Waste Piles Up, Private Companies Pitch New Ways To Store It

Nuclear power plants around the country are running out of room to store spent fuel. Federal plans for a permanent disposal site are stalle...

With U.S. measles cases at record highs, doctors say adults who got vaccinated prior to 1968 should consider getting revaccinated to make s...

The 60 or so members of the Jasons are normal academics by day. But each summer, they come together to study tough problems for the militar...

How many ads have you encountered today? On this week's radio show, we discuss the insidiousness of advertising in American media. (Im...

"In some ways we're better," says activist Melissa Mays. "In other ways, we're forever poisoned, damaged, traumatize...

A NASA probe called InSight is on Mars listening for marsquakes and it seems it has detected the first sounds of a quake, probably. (Image...

Are players just pretending to be so certain the ball is out on their opponent? Or could there be a difference in how they experience the e...

Scientists have found a way to transform electrical signals in the brain into intelligible speech. The advance may help people paralyzed by...