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As usual, the more than two dozen winners in 2019 span a range of fields, from fiction and cartoons to neuroscience and theoretical geophysics. Now they've got one important accolade in common.

Doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago announced Thursday they’ve performed the first successful double lung transplant on a COVID-19...

A young woman in her 20s was healthy before the coronavirus struck her. After two months on a ventilator and ECMO device, her transplanted lungs are now working.

Here are some of the most illuminating stories that we've read this week about the uprisings across the nation, and what brought the country to this moment.

As more culinary robots find their way into commercial food prep, one restaurant in San Francisco called Creator is hoping to strike a balance between high tech and the human touch.

Pete Shelley, the Mancunian co-founder and singer of Buzzcocks, embedded a vulnerability and honesty into early punk's genetic code, forever changing the genre.

This election season, groups that are unable to vote — like youth and undocumented people — are solidifying their impact on America's democratic process.

Enter Viktor Vekselberg, the latest character to have a role in the Russia narrative. And how did information associated with Michael Cohen's banking records fall into Michael Avenatti's hands?

The last thing that Nan Whaley, the Democratic mayor of Dayton, wants to hear in the wake of the tragedy that rocked her city on the early morning of...

NPR spoke with some of the attendees from last week's "March for Our Lives" rally in Washington, D.C., held in the wake of recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas.