In the trolley problem, you are asked whether you would kill one person to save five. Something odd happens when the problem ...

The Puerto Rican Studies Hub at the University of Wisconsin-Madison launched in October, focusing on strengthening the ...

Eighteenth-­century mental institutions employed a tactic called the bain de surprise, suddenly dunking their patients in cold water to jolt them out of their depression or psychosis. (Some doctors ...

Rogue waves were dismissed as nonsense for centuries, until New Year's Day in 1995. Their counterpart – rogue holes – were only proved real in 2012.

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Greyhounds took their last loop in Rhode Island in 2009, the year before lawmakers moved to permanently ban dog racing in the state. But the betting never stopped since simulcast races are still ...

Sloane Heller woke up one summer morning in her suburban Kansas City home in 2023 with a loud internal alarm. “I didn’t feel like I’m in my own body,” Heller said. Across the state in St. Louis, ...

Anita Diamant and her husband, Jim, recently moved into a smaller place. It meant they had to winnow their vast collection of books by about a third. What remains offers a table of contents of her ...

The lack of big shows or big games is not a failure of management or marketing, it’s simply a fundamental change in the entertainment market. Roanoke needs to keep that in mind as it contemplates ...

Watched the Dune movies, loved the story, and want to start reading the books? Here's your ultimate reading guide to the Dune universe.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with archaeologist Gary Feinman about new findings that show democracy existed throughout the ancient world and was not exclusive to Mediterranean Europe.