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An artist’s depiction of how the Trail of Tears is related to the Treaty of New Echota. Weshoyot Alvitre for NPR hide caption toggle caption Weshoyot Alvitre for NPR An artist’s depiction of how the Trail of Tears is related […]

My family includes a farmer and a fiber artist in rural Kentucky, who rarely miss a Sunday service at their local Baptist church; a retired Jewish banker on the Upper West Side of Manhattan; a theater director in Florida; a

The legacy of our ancient human relatives, “brain-eating-amoeba” infections, emerging viral threats, the promise and peril of genome editing, and much, much more — in 2024, Live Science covered a plethora of fascinating, and occasionally concerning, health studies. Research granted

The former Motor City masterpiece-turned-American-ruin was on the brink of demolition until 2018, when Ford committed to a billion-dollar restoration project returning it to its Gilded Age grandeur. Stephen McGee On the second Monday of December, a holiday party was

Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three

In the whole of human history, no predator has killed more of us than the lowly mosquito. And this killing spree, which we still struggle in vain to stop, means the mosquito has been an outsized force in our history

For centuries, eggnog has been a part of America’s Christmas festivities. George Washington was rumored to have his own recipe, and the concoction was the catalyst of a riot at West Point in the wee hours of Christmas morning 1826.

Charlotte, an injured turtle, wears his custom-made, 3D-printed harness that helps him swim straight. Formlabs A green sea turtle named Charlotte is getting a second chance at swimming normally thanks to a 3D-printed harness meant to address his “bubble butt