Search results for

America's only cobalt mine opened last year to great fanfare, as the mineral is crucial for green energy. But it surprisingly closed just months later.

The all-female Korean Haenyeo divers show genetic adaptations to cold-water diving involving their blood pressure and cold tolerance. It's "like they have a superpower," says one of the researchers.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Levi Weaver, baseball writer for The Athletic, about the Texas Rangers winning their first World Series title.

The United Nations is pleading for more aid as thousands of Afghans shiver in tents after earthquakes flattened villages and killed more than 1,000 people.

An annular solar eclipse, nicknamed the "ring of fire," will sweep across much of the Western Hemisphere on Saturday, Oct. 14. Here's what to expect.

In a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, public opinion about Israel in its war with Hamas is supportive, though the role of the U.S. in the region isn't as clear as Biden faces sharp disapproval.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with David McCloskey, whose new spy versus spy novel Moscow X is about a CIA officer scheming to recruit a Russian intelligence officer — and vice versa.

Mexico has made history. For the first time since it became a republic more than 200 years ago, Mexicans have elected a woman president.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Elham Pourtaher, an Iranian studying in the U.S., about daily life in Iran and rising tensions between the two countries.

Some states are passing laws to get ready for a possible future in which abortion is no longer protected on the federal level.