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Former Vice President Joe Biden vowed that, if elected, his administration would "lead by science." Sen. Bernie Sanders urged President Trump to declare a national emergency.

On Tuesday, countries at the global climate summit COP26 pledged to cut back on heat-trapping methane emissions and do more to fight deforestation.

A Skagit Valley Chorale rehearsal early last year became a deadly COVID-19 superspreader event. Now, the group is figuring out how to come back together and reforge the bonds of a community choir.

The unprecedented study involves using the gene-editing technique CRISPR to edit a gene while it's still inside a patient's body. In exclusive interviews, NPR talks with two of the first participants.

Agency officials issued a final ruling on Wednesday saying chlorpyrifos can no longer be used on the food that makes its way onto American dinner plates. The move overturns a Trump-era decision.

Record-breaking wildfires in 2020 turned Western forests into barren burn scars. Those forests store winter snowpack that millions of people rely on. But, the science on the effects to the region’s water supplies isn’t well understood.

Megan Rice spent two years in federal prison while in her 80s after breaking into a government security complex to protest nuclear weapons.

Gilead Sciences Inc., said Thursday that Remdesivir is approved for people at least 12 years old who need hospitalization for their coronavirus infection. A large U.S. study found it cut the time to recovery by five days — from 15 days to 10 on average.

The first Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book was published in October 1979. Fans are looking back at how the series has endured in popularity and why it's still relevant.

A special event on Saturday celebrates art, documentary storytelling, and the City Heights neighborhood with workshops, art stations, food, music and a Dinah Poellnitz-curated exhibition.