NPR's Don Gonyea, who thinks of Detroit as home, ponders the challenges facing the city's newly elected mayor.
Some listeners have complained that NPR's national political correspondent Mara Liasson, who is also a contributor to Fox News, has a conservative bias.
Germans and Jews alike still grapple with the legacy of a night of destruction, 75 years later.
The weather and demand from China are driving prices up. But how do you say the word pecan?
The recent discovery of polio in Syria and Israel should be a wake-up call to European health officials, scientists say. Low vaccination rates in some regions could offer the crippling virus a chance to reenter Europe and possibly gain a foothold. Vaccines used there also make it more likely that people can spread the virus.
A hairdresser in Alaska is one of the first people to get health insurance through HealthCare.gov. The 37-year-old woman has a chronic thyroid problem, so she's thrilled to find affordable coverage.
Restaurants with a "weak" online reputation are more likely to write fake positive reviews, a study finds. But chain restaurants, which do not benefit greatly from Yelp, are less likely to commit review fraud.
Roy Choi is a chef who's celebrated for food that isn't fancy. He's one of the founders of the food truck movement, where instead of hot dogs or ice cream, more unusual, gourmet dishes are prepared and sold. His Kogi trucks specialize in tacos filled with Korean barbecue.
NPR's The Salt tried to figure out which foods would help us cultivate healthier microbiomes. Turns out that no one is really knows for sure. But eating more vegetables probably won't hurt.
"People who multitask all the time can't filter out irrelevancy. They can't manage a working memory. They're chronically distracted," Nass said. "They initiate much larger parts of their brain that are irrelevant to the task at hand. And even - they're even terrible at multitasking. When we ask them to multitask, they're actually worse at it. So they're pretty much mental wrecks."
P/2013 P5, with six comet-like jets, was first spotted using the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii and then seen in more detail by the Hubble Space Telescope.
To The EdgeSome people might only dream of adventure, but for others, there's no option but to explore the most extreme places on Earth. From the deepest caves to the roughest oceans, from the North Pole to dizzying heights on a high wire - what drives adventurers to constantly push themselves to the brink of human endurance?
Back in the 17th century, many English cheese-makers realized that they could make more money if they skimmed off the cream. But in doing so, most of the color was lost, since the natural orange pigment is carried in the fatty cream.So, to pass off what was left over as a high-quality product, the cheese-makers faked it.
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