NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with addiction correspondent Brian Mann about the drop in overdose deaths among teens and young adults in the U.S.

State agencies are likely to face more cuts in the upcoming fiscal year that begins July 1 because of spending requirements ...

The Pew report reveals how religious disaffiliation and population growth have influenced the global religious landscape.

For more than 80 years, residents of Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater have been banking on a pumping project to protect their ...

Columbia University has agreed to a $750 million settlement with hundreds of former patients of a disgraced obstetrician and gynecologist who sexually abused them over two decades at the university's ...

In order to make its sophisticated products cheaply, Apple sent engineers to China to train workers and paid for expensive ...

Sly Stone was the visionary frontman, composer and producer of the pioneering funk group Sly and the Family Stone.

The declaration says that under the Trump administration, the National Institutes of Health has been forced to politicize and stigmatize important research.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has already deported some of the people picked up in raids that triggered protests in Los Angeles.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired an entire vaccine advisory committee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday as part of his ongoing efforts to overhaul federal ...

The Apple TV+ series "Murderbot" centers around an artificial life form that acts as security for a team of scientists, though it really would prefer to watch soap operas.

In Lima, a city known for some of the world’s wildest traffic, a Peruvian startup is testing driverless cars. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.