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Spiderwebs can capture environmental DNA, or eDNA, from vertebrate animals in their area, potentially making them a useful tool in animal monitoring, tracking and conservation.

In a lawsuit filed this week, a group of current and former Alabama prisoners say they have been coerced into providing cheap labor to the state and to private employers.

Research shows nearly 1 in 5 school-age children are using melatonin to help them sleep. But these supplements are unregulated and pediatricians worry about their safety and the dose.

NPR's Scott Detrow chats with the directors of All Things Considered about the music they listened to the most this year and why.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Dr. Andrea Palmer, a Fort Worth OB-GYN, about the "medical emergency" exception in Texas' abortion ban.

NPR staffers recommend non-fiction reads from our Books We Love list: "On Minimalism," "Anansi's Gold," "Asian-Americans in an Anti-Black World," and "The Wager."

Film critics like to argue, but Chang says that he and his colleagues agree that this was a really good year on screen. Beyond the Barbie and Oppenheimer blockbuster, here's what you shouldn't miss.

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Lori Cash, a postal worker near Buffalo, N.Y., about how a new rule change by the United States Postal Service affects her work.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Middle East Institute president Paul Salem about hostilities between the U.S. and Iran-backed militias, and the risk of a wider war in the Middle East.

The watermelon now symbolizes unofficial Palestinian solidarity amid reports of online censorship and the ongoing civilian deaths in Gaza.