It's time to discuss one of the perennial debates of the holiday season. Are real Christmas trees or their fake counterparts ...

Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin pursues her 100th World Cup win this weekend on her home slopes in Killington, Vermont.

We get a rare up close look inside the Dutch company ASML, and its technology behind the most advanced microchips.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Eric Liu, co-founder of Citizen University, about how to coexist in community with people who vote differently.

Scientists observed wolves in Ethiopia feeding on flower nectar. This may be the first instance of a predator serving as a pollinator.

A few years ago, scientists cracked a murder mystery -- they figured out what's been killing Coho salmon in urban streams in the Pacific Northwest. The culprit: particles from tires.

The parliamentary election will decide the next government, and will show whether Ireland bucks the global trend of ...

In this week's StoryCorps, Philadelphia radio host Cherri Gregg remembers her grandmother, Maryhall Fuller Robinson Snead, who helped her find her voice.

María Corina Machado leads the political opposition in Venezuela, and for months, she has done so while in hiding.

Indigenous advocates called the final agreement in Azerbaijan "drastically insufficient." Now they're focusing on next year's ...

The six-month season saw an above-average number of storms. Scientists say climate change is leading to more powerful and ...

Rob Schmitz is NPR's international correspondent based in Berlin, where he covers the human stories of a vast region reckoning with its past while it tries to guide the world toward a brighter future.