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In this gorgeously designed movie, the walls of an elaborate cardboard maze are more substantial than the characters inside it.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Gene Giacomelli of the University of Arizona about working with NASA to develop a kind of greenhouse where astronauts can grow crops while in space.

Senate Republicans on Thursday unveiled their plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act - also known as Obamacare. The long-awaited plan marks a…

The Colombia-born, Toronto-based singer beat out some of Canada's most beloved artists, winning after Polaris' unique jury system found her album La Papessa to be the country's best of the year.

President Trump spoke with Mexico's president, Enrique Peña Nieto, for an hour by phone on Friday. According to both sides, the two agreed to work together to resolve their differences.

The three comedy legends join Harry Shearer's lawsuit, first filed last fall, against the film's owner.

In 1914, the newspaper reported that applications were "pouring in" for WWI war bonds. Researchers at the Bank of England, analyzing old records, have discovered that wasn't remotely true.

After a noisy month in the press and a significant round of layoffs, SoundCloud announced today it had secured its largest round of financing to date, ending speculation of its demise (for now).

India's "culture wars" have risen to a new level with actors, filmmakers and writers joining to protest against the right-wing Hindu government's inaction against religious intolerance and violence.

In many parts of the South, more than one-third of seniors are taking drugs that they should avoid, an analysis of Medicare data finds. Ten percent are taking two or more potentially problematic medicines.

Computer activists threaten to reveal identities of teenage boys linked with the alleged rape of Rehtaeh Parsons, who, after more than a year of harassment and online bullying, committed suicide this month.

The relatively scarce "sweet wormwood" plant has long been the only source of the herbal drug artemisinin. A new trick for making artemisinin in the lab should help even out supplies around the world, scientists say, and cut the cost of malaria treatment.

"Accidental Racist" launched an Internet firestorm and threatened to overshadow everything else on the country singer's fine new album, Wheelhouse. Even in that polarizing song, Paisley's biggest sin is that he's well-meaning in a way that topples too easily into sentimentality.

Wild animals use all sorts of plants and natural substances to ward off illness. There are chimpanzees that eat leaves to purge parasites and bees that coat hives with resin to beat back bacteria.

If the government stops paying off its debts, people might rush to lend the government money. Here's why that may happen — and why, in the long run, it would be a problem.

Japanese Airlines announced Monday it would buy Airbus planes in a deal that could be worth up to $9.5 billion. It's a blow for U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing.

The Nordic Orion's journey across the Arctic, made possible by global warming, saved 1,000 miles and $80,000 in fuel, the ship's operator says.

John Riccitiello, whose rocky six-year tenure saw a 60 percent drop in Electronic Art's stock price, said in his resignation letter that he leaves feeling that EA "has never been in a better position as a company."

Wisconsin has the highest number of binge drinkers in the nation, and they cost the state $6.8 billion in 2012.

Manure from pig farms doesn't just contain residues of antibiotics used in livestock. It also carries high concentrations of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a new study of Chinese pig farms finds. And researchers say "it's a global problem."