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Scientists are missing a proven tool to help them fight the coronavirus: A blood test that can tell who has been exposed in the past. U.S. scientists are developing one — China may already have one.

Climate change has become a top issue for Democratic primary voters. But it's not clear if the politically divisive topic will play as big a role in the general election.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Julia Holman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation about how Australia is coping with the consequences of wildfires and floods.

Elizabeth Freeman used the colonists' ideas of equality and independence to sue for her freedom. Her lawyer was Theodore Sedgwick, who would later become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Matthew Belnap was to be released from jail. Authorities say he shaved Kaleb Wiewandt's head so they would look a like. Wiewandt was released first and then Balnap complained his released was delayed.

Cathy Park Hong's essays serve as a major reckoning, pulling no punches as the author uses her life's flashpoints to give voice to a wider Asian American experience, one with cascading consequences.

A building boom in the Southeast Asian country has pushed up demand for sand in a river that 60 million people rely on.

More than 10,000 homes in Virginia have solar panels, according to the Department of Mines Minerals and Energy. Proponents of renewable energy say those…

The first suspected U.S. case of novel coronavirus infection through "community spread" was left undiagnosed for days, hospital officials said, because the case didn't fit the CDC's criteria.

From an endless stream of political misinformation to inescapable lies on social media, are we living in a post-truth world?