It's time for our science news roundup from Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. I am joined by Emily Kwong and Jessica Yung - good to have you both back here. EMILY KWONG, BYLINE: Hi, Ari. JESSICA YUNG ...

For a long time, fish have been underappreciated in the intelligence sector. In popular media, they were depicted as forgetful, robotic beings with little to no knowledge of their environment. However ...

For this episode of “For Science!” we explore the concepts of solubility and density using the “floating fish” experiment. Because dry erase markers are created to not stick to surfaces, it is made ...

Mesopelagic fish, long overlooked in ocean chemistry, are now proven to excrete carbonate minerals much like their shallow-water counterparts—despite living in dark, high-pressure depths. Using the ...

It wasn’t an ancient boomerang. It was, in fact, a fish — albeit unlike any known today. Beyond that, nobody’s quite sure what to make of Pegasus volans. The fish’s ribbonlike body, known from two ...