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For the first time, new home tests — available at pharmacies without a prescription — can test for both the flu and COVID simultaneously.

Is it the flu or is it COVID? One at-home test can tell you

Nov 18, 2024 The FDA recently authorized the iHealth at-home test for the SARS-CoV2 virus and two strains of the flu virus.
Hopi R2D2, a life-size animatronic made to look like R2-D2 with Hopi pottery designs

Art exhibit combining Native life, 'Star Wars' heads to Tempe Center for the Arts in 2025

Nov 15, 2024 The exhibit, previously called "The Force is with Our People," has a whole new name and includes 19 artists from different tribes.
This graphic shows the difference in the appearance of the Moon’s size in its furthest and closest distances to Earth.

Stargazers can see the final supermoon of the year this weekend

Nov 14, 2024 If you miss this supermoon, you won't be able to see the next one until October 2025.
The new inductees into The National Toy Hall of Fame include My Little Pony, the card game Phase 10, and Transformers.

My Little Pony, Transformers, Phase 10 join the National Toy Hall of Fame

Nov 12, 2024 All three of this year's inductees were created in the 1980s.
A key in a door lock.

How to find lost objects: 6 techniques that really work

Nov 12, 2024 Finding missing items is an art and a science. The next time you misplace your house key, try these strategies to hunt it down.
Scientists used a gumball machine filled with toys to test how toddlers learned when they thought something was impossible or just improbable.

Impossible, you say? Try asking a toddler

Nov 7, 2024 Even toddlers can tell an event that is improbable from one that appears impossible.
Baby Haggis, a pygmy hippo, was born to parents Otto and Gloria at Edinburgh Zoo on Oct. 30.

Baby Haggis is the new Moo Deng

Nov 7, 2024 A pygmy hippo is born in Edinburgh.
Australia's Rachael Gunn, known as B-Girl Raygun, competes during the Round Robin Battle at the breaking competition at La Concorde Urban Park at the 2024 Summer Olympics on Aug. 9, in Paris. Her performance drew laughs and criticism and now Gunn is responding.

Australian breakdancer Raygun is retiring from the sport after her Olympics backlash

Nov 7, 2024 Her routine was made into memes and spoofed on late night television.
Voters cast their ballots at Robious Elementary School in Chesterfield County, Va.

See what Election Day 2024 looked like across the country

Nov 5, 2024 Some of NPR’s member station photographers spent the day documenting Americans casting their votes in what could be a historic election.
Voter organizers have had concern over “ballot fatigue,” meaning voters might not fill out the entire ballot because it is so long.

Maricopa County voters’ long ballot could lead to delays

Nov 5, 2024 In Maricopa County, voters have had to sift through a two-page, front and back ballot with a wide range of issues.

WATCH: Election 2024 PBS News special coverage – LIVE ASL

Nov 5, 2024 PBS News will offer live ASL for its election special coverage, thanks to interpreters from DPAN.tv
NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague and Don Pettit urged Americans to vote on Tuesday.

NASA astronauts cast their votes from space

Nov 5, 2024 "It doesn’t matter if you are sitting, standing, or floating - what matters is that you vote!"

NPR Election Day live updates

Nov 5, 2024 Here's what you need to know, including when polls close
An election worker gathers tabulated ballots to be boxed inside the Maricopa County Recorders Office, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022, in Phoenix.

Here's how NPR will report the 2024 election results

Nov 5, 2024 NPR partners with The Associated Press to ensure that races are called accurately.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland poses for a portrait in her office in the Department of Interior headquarters in Washington, DC on October 8, 2024. She selected each art piece, all made by Indigenous artists, that hangs on the wall behind her.

America's first Native American cabinet secretary says she's righting historical wrongs

Oct 30, 2024 Deb Haaland says she thinks about her elders and the U.S. government’s historical policy of assimilation every day.
Salas and her daughter Rebeca went to a pro-choice rally together.

Want to understand the dramatic shift in Latino views on abortion? Go to Arizona

Oct 24, 2024 Pew Research Center polling shows that 62% of Hispanics in the U.S. believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

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