Keeping a museum's temperature and humidity constant -- rain or shine, all year long -- takes a massive amount of energy, and it's expensive. But some museums have a solution.

For the World Cup, FIFA requires a particular kind of pitch: a hybrid of natural and artificial grass. We hear about what it takes to make it.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Heather Schneider of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden about the garden's efforts to conserve seeds of rare plants from Santa Rosa Island, where a wildfire just burned.

At least 18 NPR journalists have accepted buyouts and another 10 have been laid off as the public media network attempts to ...

The phrase "bird watching" does not take in the full range of people who love searching for wild birds. We meet a few of the many visually impaired birders who use their ears.

Ben Rhodes was a speechwriter and security adviser for President Obama. His book, All We Say, is a collection of 15 speeches — from Ben Franklin to Trump — about what it means to be American.

Music is interwoven with the sounds of daily life in this West African island nation, which hosted two international music ...

When a species is facing extinction, it takes an enormous human effort to stave it off. Case in point: the painstaking ...

The White House is saying little about President Trump's check-up at Walter Reed Tuesday, his third in 13 months. Critics say the lack of transparency only raises more questions about his health.

A question at a special meeting of the Springfield City Council began a conversation on redevelopment and prioritizing ...

The new movie tells a story about how good meteorology can literally win wars. It also takes us back in time, to when the ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Brandon Rottinghaus, professor of political science at the University of Houston, about the outcome of Tuesday's primaries in Texas.