NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former Trump national security advisor Ambassador John Bolton about the President's upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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We mark the birthday of Katharine Lee Bates, the author of the poem, “America the Beautiful.” She was a writer, teacher, anti-war activist and campaigner for women, immigrants, African Americans and ...

The technology to make diamonds in a lab has existed since the 1950s, and now lab-grown diamonds are changing the market in ...

Delftware is the iconic ceramic from the Dutch city of Delft, blue and white painted tiles, dishes, flower pots.

The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ...

Home and rent prices are sky high in part because of a massive housing shortage. Utah is among a growing number of states trying to force cities to build more affordable places. This article was ...

The Trump administration has given an ultimatum to immigrants without legal status: leave now voluntarily, or you’ll be detained and deported.

Ford has announced a line of smaller, cheaper electric vehicles, including an affordable midsize pickup truck. This comes at a time when EV sales are flat and the Trump administration is eliminating ...

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