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Astrophysicist Adam Frank asks: What is the relationship between the first two words in that New-Agey triplet: "Be here now?" How do "be-ing" and, well, "here-ing" go together?

Former Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock was indicted on 24 counts including wire fraud, theft of government funds and making false statements. He says he looks forward to "all the facts coming out."

A Sicily court has convicted the ship's captain and another man over the wreck involving hundreds of migrants in April 2015. It was one of the deadliest migrant disasters in the Mediterranean.

A diagnosis of cancer changes everything.If you are in the workforce, you likely know someone at your workplace who has been or will be diagnosed with…

The Democratic Republic of Congo ordered telecom companies to block social media sites ahead of protests planned on Monday, marking the end of the president's final constitutionally sanctioned term.

Two recent studies comparing genetic cancer tests suggest that doctors need to be careful about assuming the results provide a complete picture for selecting among treatments options.

A grenade-shaped trailer hitch, a replica exploding vest, and dead seahorses in a bottle are a few of the strangest items that Transportation Security Administration officers encountered this year.

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.

Eight percent of respondents in a recent national poll said they or someone in their household had imported a prescription drug to the U.S. at some point. Are the deals as good as they seem?

Google sifted through 5 million satellite images to create a series of zoomable, time-lapse videos depicting the human impact on the planet.