Cuba's power grid collapsed Saturday leaving the country without electricity for a third time in March as the communist government battles with a decaying infrastructure and a U.S.-imposed oil ...

Kelly Chibale says that the hunt for new drugs is kind of like a fairy-tale quest. And it takes a lot of time and patience.

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Robert Mueller, the former FBI director and special counsel who led the high-profile investigation into Russian interference ...

WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with music power couple Iqua and Adegoke Steve Colson about their 50-year marriage, latest release ...

Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of ...

In messages to NPR, Tehran residents describe largely deserted streets roamed by paramilitary officials and vigilantes. They ...

The U.S. Postal Service's leader says it is set to run out of money in less than a year and may have to stop deliveries ...

Seawalls are great at protecting property and people. A new nature-inspired seawall add-on is trying to make them better at ...

Israel said it killed Iran's minister of intelligence, Esmail Khatib, in an overnight strike Wednesday. The announcement came ...

With the Iran war entering a third week and the price of oil reaching nearly $105 a barrel on Monday, President Trump again ...

The letter X can be a lot of things: rebellious, mysterious, religious. For this Word of the Week, we examine its origins and ...