AILSA CHANG, HOST: Scientists say they have solved a mystery about the Zika virus. They think they've figured out why the virus became a global threat all of a sudden and started causing severe birth defects. As NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff reports, the...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Hugh Hefner has died at the age of 91. He created Playboy magazine at his kitchen table in Chicago in the early 1950s. It became not only a brand but it came to symbolize a lifestyle, both glorified and despised, of lavish partie...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Mark Twain has a new book out this week, a fairytale called The Purloining Of Prince Oleomargarine. Yeah, OK, we know Twain died in 1910. But notes he made about a bedtime story he once told his daughters were recently discov...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: China is riding a tidal wave of domestic consumption. More products means more advertising, and that means more models. Few are busier these days than those from China's northwestern region of Xinjiang. NPR's Rob Schmitz explains w...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: A new movie looks at artist Vincent Van Gogh in a startling way. It uses thousands of oil paintings to create a unique form of animation and a murder mystery. The film is called Loving Vincent. NPR critic Bob Mondello says that whe...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Now we're going to dust off some old words, starting with this one - dotard. AILSA CHANG, HOST: It means an old person, especially one who has become weak or senile. It was popular during Shakespeare's time. SIEGEL: Last week Nor...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Late last night, the Guggenheim Museum in New York announced it was pulling three works from an upcoming show of contemporary art from China. One is a large screen-covered box with live lizards and insects inside. The other two are...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The nation's organ transplant network is proposing a change in how livers are made available. The idea is to make the system more equitable, but some are worried that this change would make things less fair for some people, and we...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The nation's organ transplant network is proposing a change in how livers are made available. The idea is to make the system more equitable, but some are worried that this change would make things less fair for some people, and we...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: And we're going to spend some time now in China's far northwestern region, Xinjiang, which is four times the size of California. It's home to a Muslim minority group called the Uighurs. They have had this tense relationship with C...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The first new original Star Trek TV show in a dozen years debuted on CBS last night - Star Trek: Discovery. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says the show goes where no Trek show has gone before. It's a prequel to the original Star Tre...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Thousands of people in the United States are not exactly homeless; more like houseless. They live in vehicles - RVs, campers, vans. And they follow the work, moving from job to job. The journalist Jessica Bruder embedded with this...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Now an estimated 4 percent of Americans have food allergies, and that can show up very early in life. But many kids actually outgrow some of their allergies. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports on a surprisingly simple test that can...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The flu can be especially dangerous for women who are pregnant. NPR's Rebecca Hersher reports that researchers have been studying the flu vaccine in pregnant women and recently they published some unexpected findings. REBECCA HERS...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In the new book Unforgivable Love, you will find a lot of hot, steamy and dangerous liaisons. And it is, indeed, a retelling of the 1782 French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses. This version has just as much betrayal and bed-...
