After days of anticipation, Taylor Swift revealed the cover art and October release date for her next album, The Life of a Showgirl, in a wide-ranging podcast interview on Wednesday. The singer, ...

Climate reporter Barbara Moran talks with the Endless Thread team about weather patterns and theories about why it sometimes seems it’s always a bad weather weekend. Ben Brock Johnson and Amory ...

AOL debuted a dial-up service in 1989. Dial-up has largely been replaced by broadband internet. NPR’s Ayana Archie reports. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

This week, a glacial outburst sent millions of gallons of water surging down the Mendenhall River that runs through Juneau, Alaska. The river rose to a record level, but temporary barriers largely ...

Gov. Jeff Landry is voicing a change of heart regarding the Solar for All program, launched under President Joe Biden to provide cleaner power and reduce electric bills for some 900,000 low-income ...

This week, Denzel and Spike return to theaters together for the first time in decades, four mutant turtles return for their anniversary run in cineplexes, and a strange and original horror movie ...

The June murder of a teenage social media star has become part of a wider conversation in Pakistan about gender-based violence in the age of social media.

The percentage of Americans who say they drink has fallen to a record low, according to a new Gallup poll. The dip coincides with a growing concern among those surveyed that drinking even in ...

A federal appeals court handed President Trump a victory on Wednesday. The court ruled the administration can continue to freeze or terminate billions of dollars that Congress approved in foreign aid.

Within Israel's prime minister pushing for a full occupation of Gaza, some of Israel's exhausted soldiers are pushing back and calling for an end to the war.

The Boston Public Library is launching a project in collaboration with Harvard University and OpenAI to increase public access to hundreds of thousands of historically significant documents.

Inca society kept records by encoding information into knotted cords called khipu. A new analysis of hair woven into these cords suggests this record-keeping was practiced by commoners as well as ...