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After spending several decades writing beloved children's scores, Newman is back with the acerbic Dark Matter.Hear a conversation with Steve Inskeep, plus a performance of some original songs.

Activist Heather Booth and the Jane Collective provided thousands of women with abortions before Roe v. Wade.

Gibbons returns with a solo album, Lives Outgrown, and a song that wonders beyond this life. On this week's 8 Tracks, NPR Music's Lars Gotrich listens to songs that explore what happens next.

The masses of balls that appeared along 11 miles of coast in western Siberia were snowy and icy. Some of them were small, and some were quite large.

The Metropolitan Opera opens its 128th season next week with a work new to the company, Donizetti's Anna Bolena. Anna Netrebko stars in the title role,…

The combination of the Flaming Lips' sprawling musical palette and Deap Vally's raunchy guitar glam is a psychedelic dream that will take your brain on a journey while your body is in isolation.

Narendra Modi is a Hindu nationalist and political outsider who won India's election in a landslide. To understand India's political history, author Akash Kapur recommends a book by V.S. Naipaul.

It's crunch time for the U.S. Supreme Court, as consequential decisions will be coming soon. The biggest issues left: same-sex marriages, subsidies under Obamacare and lethal injection drugs.

After developing underground for 17-years, a swarm of buzzing cicadas will soon emerge across eastern Ohio. A lot has changed since they were last here...

Some linguists are arguing that the advent of softer food thousands of years ago led to changes in biting patterns and, eventually, to more frequent use of sounds like "f" and "v" in human languages.