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The new "Sports360" exhibit features 25 hands-on stations inspired by football, baseball, hockey, soccer and Olympic sports.

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Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

After more than 50 years of research, scientists still don't know exactly what causes autism. But the data make clear that ...