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The business of wearing a mask to prevent the spread of COVID-19 might seem to you like a matter of science, but it’s also a matter of personal bias…

Every parent finds ways to soothe a crying baby. One father posted a video online demonstrating how his infant stopped crying after hearing the song "Psychosocial" by Slipknot.

One Trump campaign strategy was to get a large rural turnout to offset expected losses in cities. That strategy failed in the longtime GOP stronghold of Arizona.

Nearly all election polls forecasted a blue wave. But when that failed to materialize, pollsters looked foolish — and the news organizations they partner with lost credibility too.

From New Mexico becoming the first state ever to elect all women of color to the House, to Delaware's Sarah McBride, the first transgender state senator, the list of diversity firsts in 2020 is long.

Thursday marks 30 years since computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee submitted his formal proposal for a new idea: the World Wide Web. At the time, he was working at the CERN laboratory in Geneva.

There are a lot of lessons to be learned from the time the world came together to plug the hole in the ozone layer.

President Trump's lawsuits seeking to challenge the election results in key states haven't gained much traction. We'll explain why.

The political divide between rural and urban America has become more obvious this year. But people living in cities and those in rural towns may have more in common than they realize.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Vineet Arora, a hospitalist at the University of Chicago, about warning Illinois officials that hospitals will run out of intensive care unit bed by Thanksgiving.