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Hundreds of first-year and transfer students are moving into residence halls this week. They're among the lucky ones to get accepted.

Julia Labbate is a Syracuse University student exploring the intersections of media, geography, and storytelling through creative and technical pursuits.

Marisa Nuñez is a graduate student studying Broadcast and Digital Journalism at Syracuse University, expected to graduate in August 2026. As a content creator at WAER, Marisa helps produce digital and radio stories.

It used to be that neuroscientists thought smart people were all alike. But now they think that some very smart people retain the ability to learn rapidly, like a child, well into adolescence.

A national movement to ban plastic bags is gaining steam, but these restrictions may actually hurt the environment more than help it.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Sen. Tom Carper, chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, about Thursday's hearing on the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dan Reicher of Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment about a historic agreement addressing land-use for large scale solar projects.

If you live in a big city, you may have noticed new buildings popping up — a high-rise here, a skyscraper there. The concrete jungles that we've built over the past century have allowed millions of us to live in close proximity, and modern economies to flourish. But what have we given up by moving away from the forest environments in which humans first evolved? This week, we revisit our 2018 conversation about the healing power of nature with psychologist Ming Kuo.

The cotton seeds aboard a lunar lander had encouraged hopes that plants could grow on the moon. But days after China boasted of the experiment's success, the tender shoots died.

What used to be an almost dead lake is now teeming with fish and bird activity, as well as other plant and animal life. Audubon New York and the Onondaga…