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Revisiting Superstorm Sandy: One Year Later In Photos
It's been a year since Superstorm Sandy tore up the Atlantic coast — one of the biggest and most expensive hurricanes in the region's history. The images at the time were remarkable: rows of homes...
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The View From The Largest Window In Space
More than 230 miles above Earth, aboard the International Space Station, is a seven-window observatory module called the Cupola. It's a relatively new addition to the ISS, which made its debut just...
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Before Drone Cameras: Kite Cameras!
These days, getting an aerial shot is as simple (although maybe illegal) as strapping a camera to a drone. Back in the day, though, it wasn't so easy.George R. Lawrence, a commercial photographer at...
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Trapping And Tracking The Mysterious Snowy Owl
This is Hungerford, a large female snowy owl. Last summer she was just a hatchling — a gray ball of fuzz in the middle of the Arctic tundra. In the fall, newly equipped with adult plumage, she flew...
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Why We Published A Photo Of A 16-Year-Old In A Diaper
The series on family caregivers that NPR ran over the Fourth of July weekend sparked an extraordinary response, with tens of thousands of comments and likes on Facebook and NPR.org.Many people...
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Rise In Measles Cases Marks A 'Wake-Up Call' For U.S.
After a few cases here and there, measles is making a big push back into the national consciousness.An outbreak linked to visitors to the Disneyland Resort Theme Parks in Orange County, Calif., has...
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A Woman Uses Art To Come To Terms With Her Father's Death
A month after her father died of sepsis, Jennifer Rodgers began creating maps.She took a large piece of paper, splattered it with black paint and then tore it into pieces. Then she began to draw: short...
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Looks Good Enough To Smoke: Marijuana Gets Its Glamour Moment
When Erik Christiansen started smoking pot, he became fascinated by the look of different marijuana strains. But the photographs of marijuana he saw didn't capture the variety.So he went to the...
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What It's Like To Choose Transgender Sex Reassignment Surgery
It wasn't until Deborah Svoboda dated someone who is trans that she understood how little she understood about being transgender. "I realized how very misunderstood they were, including by me," she...
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Sweeping Or Skydiving? When Counting Calories It's All The Same
Sure, playing in the women's World Cup burns a lot more energy than watching the women's World Cup. But the number of calories expended in sports and daily activities isn't always so obvious.To figure...
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How Sporty Is Your Sport?
When it comes to sports, there seems to be something for everyone.There are team sports and activities you can do alone. There's exercise that requires equipment, or none at all.But how much benefit...
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Hispanic Cancer Rates Show How It Matters Where You Come From
Hispanic people much are less likely to get cancer than non-Hispanic whites, but it's also their leading cause of death.Beneath that puzzling fact lie the complexities and contradictions of the...
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Is This Snowy Wonderland Or The World Inside A Petri Dish?
Do you remember cutting paper snowflakes in school? Artist Rogan Brown has elevated that simple seasonal art form and taken it to science class.These large-scale paper sculptures may evoke snow, but...
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How A Little Boy's Cancer Diagnosis Inspired A Haunting Video Game
When Ryan Green's son Joel was 1 year old he was diagnosed with an aggressive brain cancer. Over the next few years, he underwent rounds of chemotherapy and radiation, only to have the cancer...
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Just Turned 40? An Architect Says It's Time To Design For Aging
When Architect Matthias Hollwich was approaching 40, he wondered what the next 40 years of his life might look like. He looked into the architecture that serves older adults, places like retirement...
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Cosplayers Use Costume To Unleash Their Superpowers
"My name is Becki," says a young woman standing in a convention center turned comic book bazaar. Then she flips a mane of orange hair and launches into Scottish accent. "And today, I am Merida from...
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Seeing A Mother's Alzheimer's As A Time Of Healing And Magic
In 2008, Dana Walrath asked her mother Alice to move in with her. Alice's Alzheimer's disease had gotten worse, and even though she still had all her humor and graces, she could no longer take care of...
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Life Inside The Alzheimer's Ward: A Hidden World Revealed
Inside the walls of a geriatric hospital in France, time stands still. Light falls across two stockinged feet on a bed. The fading floral pattern on a swath of wallpaper is interrupted by an unused...
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The Poetic Intimacy Of Administering Anesthesia
According to Audrey Shafer, there is something profound in the moment a patient wakes up from surgery.She would know — she's an anesthesiologist. She's responsible for people when they are at their...
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PHOTOS: Scientists Take To Washington To Stress A Nonpartisan Agenda
Attendees from across the country descended on the nation's capital to speak up for science.The March for Science unfolded on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, and in multiple cities...
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Chemo Scrambled My Brain
After years working as a nurse in critical care units, Anne Webster found herself lying in the hospital struggling to get well. She had been given the wrong dose of a chemotherapy medication to treat...
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A Trauma Nurse Reflects On 'Compassion Fatigue'
Sometimes, even professionally compassionate people get tired.Kristin Laurel, a flight nurse from Waconia, Minn., has worked in trauma units for over two decades. The daily exposure to distressing...
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WATCH: Kids Craft Comics To Explore Immigration Fears
When Mexican-American artist Nora Litz first talked with her students about immigration — she was shocked to hear how scared they were."I felt I had to do something," she says. She was already teaching...
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Invisibilia: When Daydreaming Gets In The Way Of Real Life
Welcome to Invisibilia Season 4! The NPR program and podcast explores the invisible forces that shape human behavior, and we here at Shots are joining in to probe the science of why we act the way we...
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WATCH: The Science Behind Why Some Bullets Are More Destructive Than Others
Each year, more than 100,000 Americans are shot. And the wounds to bone and tissue caused by specially designed bullets also are getting more severe, according to surgeons.Not all bullets are created...
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A Photographer Turns A Lens On His Father's Alzheimer's
At first, Stephen DiRado thought his dad was dealing with depression. Gene DiRado, then in his late 50s, had become more withdrawn, more forgetful. So Stephen processed his growing concern by doing...
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WATCH: Walmart Is Discontinuing Some Ammo Sales. Here's Why It Matters
Walmart announced Tuesday that it is ending sales of some kinds of ammunition at its stores. The move came in the wake of two deadly shootings at Walmart stores in recent months, including one in El...
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Objects That Matter: Memories Of Paradise
When Linda and Bob Oslin lost their home last year to California's most destructive wildfire, they began searching their burned property expecting to salvage at least some sentimental items.But, she...
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With Australia's Hillsides Stripped Bare By Fire, Scientists Rush To Predict...
First came the fires, denuding millions of acres of forest in eastern Australia. Now comes the rain, more than 12 inches in just 48 hours over this past weekend in some areas of New South Wales.That...
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'It's Not Easy For Anyone': Coronavirus Disrupts Life And Work In Hong Kong
Coming off a shift at Tuen Mun Hospital in Hong Kong on Wednesday night, cardiologist Alfred Wong was getting ready to go to dinner with his wife. The last time they ate together, she brought the meal...
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Sell Or Stay? Australia's Fire Zone Experiment
Everyone who lived through Black Saturday remembers the heat and the wind that day in February 2009. The temperature soared to 115 degrees Fahrenheit — so hot it sucked the breath out of you, made your...
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PHOTOS: Life And Work Amid The Outbreak
As Americans shift their lives indoors and away from large public gatherings, people across the U.S. are grappling with basic questions about life, work and social distancing in the age of...
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The Fire, The Virus, The Violence: Australia And The Lessons Of Natural...
Local officials and public health experts warn that domestic violence is spiking in Australia as the country deals with the aftermath of catastrophic fires paired with the global pandemic.The fires...
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PHOTOS: A Summer Of Community, Despite Social Distance
What a strange summer it's been.All across the United States and beyond, people have changed their daily routines to stay safe during the coronavirus pandemic. An anxious spring spent under lockdown in...
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What's Going On With All These Coronavirus Variants? An Illustrated Guide
OK. So what in the heck is going on with all these variants? Why is everyone so worried? And how do they work?To answer these questions, let's go back in time to January 2020, when we were all...
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How did you find joy this year? We want to hear from you!
As we head into yet another pandemic winter, NPR's health desk is reporting a story on how to cultivate happiness and well-being amidst the collective COVID stress.Everyone has different ways of...
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We asked how you are finding joy in the pandemic. Here are 12 surprising ideas
You made the sourdough, you built the LEGO castle, you grew the vegetables. Now what? To help you find your next moment of joy, we asked our readers what creative ideas they've come up with to...
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Video analysis reveals Russian attack on Ukrainian nuclear plant veered near...
Last week's assault by Russian forces on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant was far more dangerous than initial assessments suggested, according to an analysis by NPR of video and photographs of the...
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D.C. is filled with hidden fossils. Searching for them helped me find...
Not long into my career in journalism — probably on my sixth deadline of the week — I realized I was in need of some slow, low-stakes adventure. The kind of fun that requires little planning, zero...
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Russia is draining a massive Ukrainian reservoir, endangering a nuclear plant
Russia appears to be draining an enormous reservoir in Ukraine, imperiling drinking water, agricultural production and safety at Europe's largest nuclear plant, according to satellite data obtained by...
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Tracking health threats, one sewage sample at a time
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – The best time of day to collect a wastewater sample is in the morning. That's according to Raul Gonzalez, an environmental scientist who's an expert on how people's hygiene habits...
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Step inside the world's only nuclear-powered passenger ship — built in 1959
Deep inside the Port of Baltimore, past stacks of shipping containers and a plant that makes wallboard, sits the world's first, and only, nuclear-powered cruise ship – the NS Savannah. The Savannah is...
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