Flash flooding slammed the Texas Hill Country overnight on Friday. At least 27 girls from a summer camp next to the Guadalupe ...

NPR has compiled a timeline of when local, state and federal officials posted warnings on social media as well as the ...

NPR's Pien Huang takes a journey to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival to hear from youth voices about how they're telling the story of America on the 4th of July.

Heat and wildfire smoke affect birth outcomes, according to a new study of women in Los Angeles.

First time novelist, Aisling Rawle, has just published "The Compound" - a book set in a semi-dystopian reality TV show.

An NPR journalist in Gaza describes his experience seeking food from a site run by private American contractors, facing Israeli military fire, crowds fighting for rations, and masked thieves.

Governor Greg Abbott says the state will work day and night to find people who may be stranded and unable to call for help.

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he wants the luxury resort on the eastern seacoast to become a "world destination," but ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with "The Jailhouse Lawyer" authors Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull. It's a memoir about Duncan's life as a wrongly incarcerated inmate and his efforts to exonerate himself.

Papilio is a picture book told in three parts about three stages of a butterfly's life (there are really four stages but egg ...

The movement of moths inspires a new music project by composer Ellie Wilson. She used data shared by ecologists to create a piece where the insects take center stage.