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A new study finds that butterflies probably originated in North or Central America around 100 million years ago.

When President Biden dared Republicans to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act during his State of the Union address, he pulled out an idiom that's all his own: "Lots of luck in your senior year."

Ahmad Jamal, a prodigious pianist, composer and bandleader whose seemingly effortless mastery resulted in part from a childhood dare, has died at age 92.

Taylor Swift fans flocked to theaters this weekend to see a promotional film celebrating her new album. The movie grossed an estimated $46 million globally in its limited three-day run.

From the Emotional Roller Coaster to the Worry-go-round, cartoonist Gemma Correll walks us through her brain's not-so-amusing amusement park in a darkly funny memoir.

Expert guidance on the realities of pregnancy and new motherhood from Life Kit. Find episodes on the menstrual cycle, egg freezing, postpartum depression and more.

Our names are an extension of who we are, and if your name is mispronounced all the time, you know how painful that can be. Here's why getting names right is so important.

Even amid rising grocery prices and increased sensitivity to environmental issues, Americans still trash once-edible food at alarming rates.

The enamel on our teeth is the hardest tissue on the human body. A new study looks at the nanoscale structure of enamel from teeth dating as far back as 18 million years ago to see how it's changed.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Miles Herszenhorn, a junior at Harvard's student newspaper covering the fallout of university president Claudine Gay's testimony before congress.