India’s Chhath Puja and Europe’s Yule celebrate the Sun, mark seasonal transitions, and unite communities through rituals, ...

The program pairs “Buddies” — teenage volunteers — with girls from low-income families attending government schools, helping ...

Moroccan rocks reveal that Earth’s magnetic field once changed fast but followed a hidden order, helping scientists map ...

For billions of years, Earth’s continents have stood firm, forming the foundation for mountains, rivers, and life itself. But ...

The ancient Greek engineer Mandrocles of Samos is credited with creating the Pontoon Bridge, which spanned the Bosphorus Strait.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Argentine novelist, Mariana Enriquez, about her new nonfiction book, "Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave." It chronicles her visits to cemeteries across four continents.

The Bosphorus Tunnel, also called the Eurasia Tunnel, is in Istanbul, Turkey. It crosses the strait at a maximum depth of 348 ...