A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba-kiki effect," which has…
U.S. speedskater Jordan Stolz had a lot of hype accompanying him in these Winter Olympic Games. He's now got two gold medals, one silver, with…
An NPR reporter covering the Olympics in Milan takes us on cultural side quests, to a hospitality house and a candy store.(Image credit: Rachel Treisman)
"Consciousness is under siege," says author Michael Pollan. His new book, A World Appears, explores consciousness on both a personal and technological level.(Image credit: Christopher Michel)
Canada was long the top dog of Olympic women's hockey. But with a win Thursday, the Americans could do more than earn a third gold…
In a slow-motion race of two retail behemoths, Amazon's trump card was its lucrative cloud-computing business. (Image credit: Justin Sullivan)
A Republican voting overhaul is back on Capitol Hill — with an added photo identification provision and an altered name. Opponents say the legislation would…
Who says serious athletes are always serious? Akwasi Frimpong, who's competed for Ghana, is a world-class wisecracker as he reflects on being a Black African…
A proposed rule could put nearly 80,000 people at risk of eviction, many of them U.S. citizen children. Undocumented immigrants don't get rental aid but…
A new Kenyan intelligence report said the Kenyans were recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine after being misled with false promises of jobs in…
