AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Public health officials are increasingly worried about a strain of bird flu virus that's circulating in China. In the last nine months it's sickened more than 700 people, and about 40 percent of them died. Now a team of researche...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: We're going to speak now with someone who has spent the last month exploring a largely uncharted world, discovering some bizarre creatures that have never before been seen by humans. Dr. Tim O'Hara is a marine biologist, and we are...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: NPR's Invisibilia, the show about human behavior, has returned with a new season of stories about the invisible forces that shape our lives. This week, they're looking at how ideas and concepts from our culture get into our heads...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: To truly see Japanese innovation, look no further than the bathroom. Japan's high-tech, toilet-bidet combos have these menu panels that are full of rinsing and drying features, and NPR's Elise Hu is going to explain one noisy inno...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The journalist Tom Ricks stopped writing about the present to write about the past. DAVID GREENE, HOST: We have heard Ricks often on this program. His newspaper reports on the U.S. military received two Pulitzer Prizes. One of hi...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: ABC may never air the next season of its Bachelor in Paradise, a fizzy spinoff of the network's reality romance show, The Bachelor. Warner Bros. has suspended production following allegations that the show may have filmed one cas...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There are more than 130 vacancies on the U.S. federal courts. And now, President Trump has started to fill some of those jobs. The number is unusually large because in the last years of the Obama administration, Republicans block...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Members of the Senate have found something to agree on. Nearly all voted in favor of strengthening sanctions against Russia. The Senate vote on the bill was 97 to 2. Russia already faces sanctions for its actions in Ukraine, whic...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: After showing some reluctance, the nation's largest Protestant denomination is taking a stand against white nationalism after all. NPR's Nathan Rott reports on the Southern Baptist Convention. NATHAN ROTT, BYLINE: The controversy...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It is a good time for the spoken word. There's a whole lot out there - from radio to podcasts to audio books. Turns out there are lots of choices out there for young audiophiles too. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, WOW IN THE WORLD) THE POP...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In books and movies, a monster is often more than just a monster. Maybe it represents anxiety or corruption or the id. Those themes slither under the surface of Sarah Perry's new book, The Essex Serpent. Her novel is set in England...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Let's spend a moment on an overshadowed question about Russia and the U.S. election. For President Trump, the investigation of Russian interference in last year's election is a quote, witch hunt. For some lawmakers, though, the r...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Library of Congress today named Tracy K. Smith as the nation's new poet laureate. NPR's Lynn Neary spoke with her about her new role. LYNN NEARY, BYLINE: Tracy K. Smith is keenly aware that she's taking on the job of the nati...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Hollywood movies love technology. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM) UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) OK, satellite imagery coming through. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character) Roger that... MARTIN: Spy movies, science fiction movies, hor...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Magpie Murders it's a whodunit about whodunits. It's the new book by Anthony Horowitz, his latest foray into fictional crime solving. He knows the genre well. He's written two Sherlock Holmes novels with the blessing of the Conan...
