The Iran conflict has sparked intense debate over whether it represents a strategic necessity or a major policy mistake. Escalation has already drawn in regional actors, increased global tension, and ...

Humans can only see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum. Here’s why evolution may have intentionally hidden ...

In this week’s Elie v. US, our justice correspondent explores the GOP’s glee over the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights decision. Plus: Elie’s take on Musk v. Altman. U.S. Supreme Court Justice John ...

One expert said police presence, curfews and aggressively prosecuting juveniles for serious crimes are ways to start taking ...

We’ve long tried to control the weather by engineering rainfall. Now such cloud-seeding efforts are escalating, creating conflict between countries and stoking conspiracy theories. But do they work?

An international effort is underway to contain an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda that ...

South Africa’s correctional system has lost track of nearly 28,000 absconded parolees – including convicted murderers, ...

E-cigarettes may carry cancer risks of their own, researchers warn. A doctor explains what people who vape and parents should ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with "Hamnet" author Maggie O'Farrell, whose new novel, "Land," draws on her own family's history with Ireland's Great Famine.

Walt Whitman famously wrote “I contain multitudes.” How we deal with our multitudes is an important topic for individuals and for a society.

The Trump administration’s withdrawal from WHO and its cuts to foreign aid have put us and the world at far greater risk.

An Iran deal will bring short-term relief at best. What India needs is a radical injection of ideas to catch up in the ...