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Football is underway and already fans are being treated to some great games courtesy of some unexpected players: rookie quarterbacks. It's not often so many rookie QBs make such an immediate impact.

The Department of Energy is focusing on aerogels to reduce the severity of lithium battery fires. A lab that creates the substance shares the technology behind it all.

NPR's Scott Simon asks the Libertarian vice presidential candidate to lay out the positions of his party on a range of domestic and foreign policy issues.

Hurricane Sandy pummeled the beaches of the Northeast, stripping away sand and dunes, and ploughing through seawalls. Can beaches be rebuilt to face fiercer storms and rising seas? And is there even enough sand to do it? Ira Flatow and guests discuss engineering the nation's coasts for "the new normal."

Beyoncé, Megan Thee Stallion, Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish were the biggest winners at the coronavirus-delayed and -distanced 63rd annual Grammy Awards.

To celebrate Disability Pride Month, NPR readers tell their disability stories and share what they wish other people knew about living with a disability.

We're talking to the people (and Muppets) behind "Rainbow Connection" in this edition of The Sounds Of America.

In softcover fiction, Ellen Meister resurrects a literary icon, Ryan McIlvain sends elders door to door, and William H. Gass strikes the key to an identity crisis. In nonfiction, Monte Reel tells of the Victorian who chased after gorillas, and Bill Streever explores the thermometer's upper frontiers.

The 109th Nobel Prize for Literature will be awarded Thursday morning. NPR has a look at past winners and their reactions to winning.

A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officer will not face charges after he shot and killed an armed suspect during a domestic disturbance in…

Among his other mandates, Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr is investigating the firings of the White House Travel Office staff, which occurred early in the Clinton Administration. Starr received that assignment through an unusual chain of events: the General Accounting Office has referred Clinton aide David Watkins to the Jusitce Department for a criminal investigation becuase Watkins allegedly had lied to GAO investigators. The GAO made that referral after encouragement from republican Congressman William Clinger of Pennsylvania, who chairs the committee investigating the Travel Office affair. NPR's Jon Greenberg reports.

Who can vote and how they can cast their ballot are questions as important today as they were almost 60 years ago.

William Beaty, an electrical engineer, has come up with a "traffic fluid dynamics" theory to explain traffic jams, and tells host Rachel Martin how drivers can help smooth out the waves of traffic flow.

Residents of the state of Maine are not used to extreme heat. We hear from a strawberry farm where owners are worried about crop damage, and a beach where people are heading to cool off this summer.

A judge denied a motion to release police video of the April 21 killing of Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man, by sheriff's deputies. Court deliberations revealed dramatic new details of what happened.

A federally funded clinic in rural Mississippi embodies the history of community health centers in the U.S., and shows how these safety-net clinics can help minority patients during the pandemic.

Altuna stealthily shaped the consumer landscape for decades, designing stores for The Gap, Pottery Barn, Patagonia, Restoration Hardware, Williams Sonoma and many more.

As President Bush prepares to deliver his State of the Union address, NPR's Juan Williams joins residents of a St. Louis suburb for a discussion about Iraq, the economy and other issues the president's speech is likely to cover. Listen to more of the discussion at npr.org.

After being caught in a net, narwhals appear to get confused about what to do. Researchers say the whales' befuddlement could provide clues about how they will adapt to a changing Arctic.

The three former Minneapolis police officers have been found guilty of federal crimes — for failing to intervene as a fellow officer killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck.