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What are those dog ears doing on my heart? Ancient anatomists named body parts after things they resembled in real life. So you've got a rooster comb in your skull and a flute in your leg.

The show imagines what it would be like if the axis countries had won World War II, and America was divided between Germany and Japan. The show's heroes struggle against totalitarianism.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Vali Nasr, dean of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, about Russia and Iran's roles in the Syrian war.

Dayton is one of only five US cities that still have electric trolley buses. Listener Aaron Hill had several questions about the trolleys: he wondered...

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Raja Shehadeh, a Palestinian lawyer and writer best known for his book Strangers in the House, about his memories of the Six-Day War and its lasting impact on the Middle East.

Gazing into your dog's eyes apparently triggers happy feelings in both parties - suggesting that dogs really may love us back. (This piece originally aired on All Things Considered on April 16, 2015.)

The root causes of the accident that killed 304 people are still unclear, and parents of the victims are embroiled in a political tug of war.

Unauthorized immigrants who entered the U.S. as children and have lived here since 2010 now wait to see what will happen to programs that were designed to temporarily protect them from deportation.

Senators could not reach an agreement to avert a government shutdown that began Saturday morning.

The storm, which meteorologists are calling a "bomb cyclone," brought bitterly cold weather to the South.