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Regina Barber and Rachel Carlson of Short Wave talk about humans' unique breathing patterns, how a hotter planet worsens droughts, and the diets of dinosaurs.

Twelve years ago, Charlie Amsler planted two tiny fig trees in his front yard in Wellfleet. Today, they're huge, thriving plants that produce loads of…

This week, in a special episode of NEXT, we listen to a collection of award-winning stories from the New England News Collaborative: from a retrospective…

But William Bratton tells NPR the issue was being corrected. The death of Eric Garner in police custody and the subsequent slaying of two New York City police officers has created a tense atmosphere.

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft on Sunday night fired its six main rocket engines for 33 minutes. That slowed the probe down enough so it could be captured by the Red Planet's gravity.

Milder or wilder? Wetter or drier? A hard, cold look at the future of the season.

A cool Atlantic Ocean and a mild-to-moderate El Niño in the Pacific equatorial region have forecasters predicting only four or five Atlantic hurricanes this year.

In the next decade, thousands of zero-emission trucks and buses could fill the roads. On Tuesday, Massachusetts joined 14 other states in a commitment to…

This is a time of year when it can be hard to imagine that birds are declining. With flocks of sometimes thousands of Tree Swallows swarming the dunes of…

It comes as much of Europe, including Spain and Germany, sees record-breaking temperatures.