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Google made a name for itself with search technology, but it has dabbled in moonshot projects like self-driving cars. Now the company's life science unit is looking for better diabetes treatments.

Why do screams demand our attention like no other sound? The answer seems to involve an acoustic quality called roughness that triggers fear circuits in the brain.

More than half the 400,000 refugees who have fled to Bangladesh are children. That presents a daunting challenge to aid workers.

A new approach seeks to equip university students with the tools of fact-checkers.

The suspect followed a female student into a classroom in the Life Sciences North building around 1:30 p.m. Monday, sat down extremely close to her, commented on her clothing then reached out and touched her breast.

Twitter changed its "favorite" icon from a yellow star to a red heart. Twitter users aren't loving it, but NPR's social science correspondent Shankar Vedantam predicts it's just a matter of time.

The NASA probe that has spent the past 13 years making countless discoveries about the ringed planet and its moons was taken out of orbit and sent plunging into Saturn's atmosphere.

Opioid overdose deaths among middle-aged black men have increased 245 percent in the past three years in Washington, D.C.

Photographer Tommy Trenchard spent time in Bangladesh with refugees who have run for their lives.

Eggs evolved over 300 million years ago and now come in all kinds of shapes, from Tic Tacs to teardrops to pingpong balls. After studying some 50,000 eggs, a team of researchers thinks it knows why.