NPR's Scott Simon speaks to writer Matt Klein about how to win back our attention in an age of infinite information.

NPR's Short Wave talks about babies' perceptions of rhythm, how sleep may help us solve puzzles and why snakes may be able to fast so long.

A public hearing Wednesday at the Durham County Courthouse was the first opportunity for members of the public to weigh in on this year's iteration of the Carbon Plan. This plan outlines how Duke Energy will achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

Italy's Winter Olympics promised sustainability. But in Cortina, environmentalists warn the Games could scar these mountains for decades.

Chile is freezing its future to protect its plants.

We join a group of mudlarkers to see what's hiding by a creek in Philadelphia, as contributors ask what mudlarking, scavenging the banks of rivers or creeks for treasures, can uncover.

As South Carolina's outbreak grows to 876 confirmed cases, vaccinations in the state surged in January. Cases have also been reported in two ICE detention facilities.

Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process: Count up the growth rings in the fossilized bones. But new research into some of dinosaurs' living relatives, like crocodiles, suggests that this method may not always work.

Canton follows other communities in western North Carolina that are considering resistance to data centers, citing environmental, energy and noise pollution concerns

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.