This bright meteor was seen in the sky above Wrightwood, Calif., during the Leonid meteor storm of 1966. Storms are more intense than showers, but every year Leonid meteors streak across the night sky in November. NASA/Getty Images hide caption
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Helping a spouse or parent who has dementia steer clear of hazards can include ridding the home of all guns. Nicole Xu for NPR hide caption
Firearms And Dementia: How Do You Convince A Loved One To Give Up Their Guns?
Forged in 1879 and sanctioned by the General Conference on Weights and Measures at its first meeting, Le Grand K, the international prototype of the kilogram, has been kept under lock and key in a vault outside Paris. BIPM hide caption
Say Au Revoir To That Hunk Of Metal In France That Has Defined The Kilogram
North Korean rockets, such as these shown drilling near Pyongyang on March 7, 2017, launch from mobile trucks. KCNA via Reuters hide caption
Chris and Nancy Brown embrace Monday while looking over the remains of their burned residence after the Camp Fire tore through the region in Paradise, Calif. Dozens of people have been killed in the latest fires to hit the state. Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Megafires More Frequent Because Of Climate Change And Forest Management
Humans would do better to accept many of the life forms that share our space, than to scrub them all away, says ecologist Rob Dunn. Basic Books hide caption
Counting The Bugs And Bacteria, You're 'Never Home Alone' (And That's OK)
"Our data suggests that something about baking seems to be changing the hands of the people who do the baking," says ecologist Rob Dunn. Rick Gayle/Getty Images hide caption
Protestors holding pictures of people who died from use of paint removers, including Drew Wynne, protest outside a Portland, Maine, Lowe's store on May 10, 2018. They were trying to persuade the retailer to stop selling paint strippers containing methylene chloride. Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images hide caption
Retailers Plan To Clear Deadly Paint Removers From Shelves, As EPA Delays Ban
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Retailers Plan To Clear Deadly Paint Removers From Shelves, As EPA Delays Ban
Taking fish oil supplements to prevent cardiovascular disease and cancer may not be effective, a new study suggests. Cathy Scola/Getty Images hide caption
Vitamin D And Fish Oil Supplements Mostly Disappoint In Long-Awaited Research Results
Nicole and Ben Veum, with their little boy, Adrian. Nicole was in recovery from opioid addiction when she gave birth to Adrian, and she worried the fentanyl in her epidural would lead to relapse, but it didn't. Adam Grossberg/KQED hide caption
Childbirth In The Age Of Addiction: New Mom Worries About Maintaining Her Sobriety
Mourners comfort each other Thursday during a vigil at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza for the victims of the mass shooting at Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images hide caption
A bumblebee outfitted with a unique tracking tag forages outdoors. James Crall /Science hide caption
Researchers followed a group of kids from childhood into adulthood to track the link between trauma in early life and adult mental health. fzant/Getty Images hide caption
Patients awaiting epilepsy surgery agreed to keep a running log of their mood while researchers used tiny wires to monitor electrical activity in their brains. The combination revealed a circuit for sadness. Stuart Kinlough/Ikon Images/Getty Images hide caption
The skull of a mosasaur, one segment of a full-scale reconstruction, is displayed in front of a mural painted by natural history artist Karen Carr, depicting the mosasaur's underwater environment. Madeleine Cook/NPR hide caption
Researchers say it's too soon to say if marijuana could help humans with Alzheimer's, but experiments in mice showed some effects. MmeEmil/Getty Images hide caption
The oldest figurative painting, found in caves at the far eastern edge of the island of Borneo, depicts a wild cow with horns and dates to at least 40,000 years ago — thousands of years older than figurative paintings found in Europe. Luc-Henri Fage/Nature hide caption
Indonesian Caves Hold Oldest Figurative Painting Ever Found, Scientists Say
Alba Nava uses an aspirator to gather virus-carrying whiteflies that have been feeding on tomato plants at the University of Florida. Dan Charles/NPR hide caption
Is The Pentagon Modifying Viruses To Save Crops — Or To Wage Biological Warfare?
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Tetris and other absorbing brain games can get you into a "flow" state that relieves stress. Mary Mathis/NPR hide caption