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All summer, NPR's Science Desk has been looking at sweat. Humans are covered with millions of sweat glands, but it wasn't always that way. When did humans start to sweat?

A heat wave at the start of the school year has educators scrambling to keep kids cool and safe.

A collapsing glacier roared down a mountainside in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday. It wiped out one village in its path. The destruction it caused surprised officials who blamed climate change.

Schools weigh freedom of speech and safety risks as nationwide protests pop up on college campuses over the Israel-Hamas conflict.

NASA is ending its Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station a month early. The agency announced one of the four crew members has a "serious medical condition" and needs to return to Earth.

It was a who’s who of Buffalo Bills history at the ceremony for the new Highmark Stadium. Legendary players like Jim Kelly and Thurman Thomas, dignitaries from government and pro sports, and thousands of tradespeople who put near non-stop efforts into getting the facility built.

Some nonprofits are stepping in to help families in need make sure students get the back-to-school tools they need.

Disinformation efforts are becoming more sophisticated in Taiwan, and often it's domestic platforms spreading false information.

Marine scientists have begun restoring corals to underwater nurseries as waters have cooled and conditions have improved off Florida's coast, following a summer of record-breaking ocean temperatures.

Birkenstock, which is nearly 250 years old, is now a publicly traded company — valued at about $8 billion. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Oct. 11, 2023.)