Search results for

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Alberto Minetti of the University of Milan about his research on how astronauts on the moon could keep fit by running around the inside of a cylindrical "Wall of Death."

Snap Recipients are already looking to stock up at food pantries, but USDA cuts earlier this year are exposing gaps in the food safety network.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have put all the chips in on their pursuit of being baseball's first back-to-back champions since 2000. The Blue Jays and their red-hot lineup won't go down easy.

The Los Angeles Metro is using classical music on its light rail system to deter homeless people from congregating and sleeping in a downtown station.

Pope Leo XIV is the first Augustinian friar ever to be selected to lead the Catholic Church. The Villanova graduate was raised in Chicago, where he was known as Robert Prevost.

28% of Americans are now religiously unaffiliated. A new study from Pew Research looks at how atheists, agnostics and those whose religion is "nothing in particular" view God, religion and morality.

As newspapers fold around the country, a citizen journalist in a small Alabama town keeps watch over the local government.

As President Joe Biden seeks a second term in office, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll shows that a majority of Americans are concerned about his mental fitness.

The songs tell women they are "more than a mother" — then promote the pharmaceutical company's fertility treatment programs. But the music videos raise some concerns.

The NPR education team brings you 25 books with minority characters and authors.