From sparking the imagination to helping with mental health, listen to poems read by NPR readers and see how poetry has affected their lives.

The New York State Legislature returns Monday, and environmentalists hope legislators will act on a series of measures to ...

Chef Joseph Yoon began cooking cicadas after experimenting with insects for an art project. He shared his experience with ...

Students in the U.K., France and Mexico have sought to erect what many of them call "solidarity encampments," prompting a variety of responses from university authorities and local law enforcement.

It is "the first known case of active wound treatment in a wild animal with a medical plant," biologist Isabelle Laumer told NPR. She says the orangutan, called Rakus, is now thriving.

Katie Ledecky is used to getting medals, having earned 10 at the Olympics. But on Friday she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award a civilian can get from the U.S. government.

The singer-songwriter's fourth album is her best yet, with crisp, commanding songwriting, shades of '60s baroque pop and melodies that seem to have existed forever.

For decades, nonprofits, health insurers and hospitals have been trying to solve the problem of the people who need the emergency room again and again. Here are some of the lessons they've learned.

Ecologists haven't known whether a warmer climate in these forests is drawing deer north, or whether human land development might play a bigger role.

A new documentary, Hip-Hop and the White House, considers rap's association with presidential politics — and in so doing, ...

Seasonal allergy symptoms have been increasing in recent years according to some medical professionals, Dr. William Reisacher ...

Canada has one of the world's lowest rates of tuberculosis. Yet this deadly disease is surging among Indigenous people in ...