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A material that's almost entirely air keeps EV fires from spreading

The Department of Energy is focusing on aerogels to reduce the severity of lithium battery fires. A lab that creates the substance shares the technology behind it all.

A man survived a harrowing ordeal in open water as Hurricane Milton passed nearby, spending the night clinging to a large cooler before being rescued by a Coast Guard helicopter crew some 30 miles from shore.

'We were ecstatic': Coast Guard rescues a man clinging to a cooler in open water

"We couldn't believe it, honestly, that he was OK," a pilot said as he described finding a man who spent the night of Hurricane Milton's landfall 30 miles from land.

Taking vitamin D is unlikely to prevent falls or fractures. Here's what it does

Vitamin D is good for the immune system, but in older people it doesn't prevent falls or fractures, according to health experts at the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Here's why you need it.

Top row (left to right): Carisa Sanders, Margi Peterson, Rae Earley. Bottom row (left to right): Amelia Grant, Martha Antolik, Benjamin Gregg.

What were the biggest life lessons in 2024? Here's what NPR listeners learned

The year is coming to an end and with it, many lessons were learned. Some of which could have altered how we move forward into the new year. NPR listeners provide insight on their lessons from 2024.

Casey Shively holds a photo of a family ski trip with his sister, Katie, and his father, Dan, in 1996. Dan Shively died in a memory care home after being violently attacked by another resident.

Staff and residents are ‘scared to death’ of violent patients at dementia care homes

Verbal, physical, and sexual aggression among dementia patients in long-term care facilities are alarmingly common. “There is a real problem with endemic violence,” one researcher says.

UHC murder suspect railed about U.S. health care. Here's what he missed

The man charged in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was critical of U.S. health care. Experts say the system's problems are complex and can't be pinned on one player or industry.

Emergency vehicles are parked outside the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wis., where multiple injuries were reported following a shooting on Monday.

Police identify Wisconsin school shooting suspect as a 15-year-old female student

At least three people, including the suspect, are dead after a shooting at a Wisconsin grade school. Police talked to the family of the suspect and searched her home, but have no motive yet.

Author and "Hiking My Feelings" co-founder Sydney Williams stands at Pitamakan Pass in Glacier National Park, Montana, 2019.

New book 'Hiking Your Feelings' looks at finding wellness in the wilderness

Author and "Hiking My Feelings" co-founder Sydney Williams shares how she found healing in nature and how a good hike can be transformative for our physical and mental wellbeing.

People soak up the sun on deck chairs in the Allgäu region of southern Germany in 2020. Saturday is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

Saturday is the winter solstice. Make the most of the shortest day of the year

Saturday marks the shortest day of the year and the official start of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. NPR has compiled plenty of expert tips for celebrating the solstice and weathering winter.

U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters stand guard at Al Naeem Square in Raqqa, Syria, in February 2022.

Syria's U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition faces an uncertain future after Assad's ouster

After Bashar al-Assad's ouster, there are questions about the fate of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition that currently controls a third of Syrian territory.

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