Science

2 devastating earthquakes have hit Mexico in as many weeks. Here’s why

By Nsikan Akpan

By Tuesday evening, 149 people had died from the earthquake, which came 11 days after another major earthquake.

They got hundreds of thousands to rally. Where does the March for Science go from here?

By Lev Facher, STAT

The rally was a demonstration of enthusiasm and political clout. But organizers now hope to turn a march into a movement.

With FaceID, Apple’s iPhone X wades into Fifth Amendment gray area

By Michael Boulter

Could FaceID on Apple's iPhone X pose a conflict of self-incrimination? Legal experts weigh in.

Let Cassini live forever with these desktop and smartphone wallpapers

By Julia Griffin

After 20 years and 5 billion miles traveled, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will plummet Friday into Saturn, but you can keep the mission alive with these NewsHour-crafted backgrounds for your computers and smartphones.

Why NASA’s Cassini will take a fiery swan dive into Saturn

By PBS News Hour

Some 800 million miles away, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has orbited Saturn and captured images of its rings and icy moons. After nearly 5 billion miles traveled and 20 years of sending revealing data from the gas giant, Cassini is winding…

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Analysis: Why NASA’s Cassini probe had to be destroyed

By Fedor Kossakovski

The death of NASA's Cassini spacecraft is a matter of life or… well…life.

Could genetically engineered mice reduce Lyme disease?

By PBS News Hour

Lyme disease has become part of daily life for residents on the rural Massachusetts islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, where the tick population has exploded. Now a scientist at MIT is turning to a different culprit -- infected white-footed…

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Human echolocators ‘see’ with sound. Here’s what that actually looks like.

By Teresa Carey

Using math and painstaking experiments, a group from the UK modeled how the sounds from the nuanced mouth clicks of human echolocators travel around a room.

Southern Mexico shaken by deadly 8.1 earthquake, its strongest in a century

By Nsikan Akpan

The earthquake also sparked a series of relatively small tsunamis that hit the Chiapas coastline.

Hurricane Irma’s staggering power in numbers

By Nsikan Akpan

As Hurricane Irma churns north of the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba, before setting its course toward the U.S., here are some numbers you should keep in mind.