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You nominated 300 cool stories of scientific surprise for Skunk Bear's Golden Mole Award. Our shortlist has it all: circuits painted with light, imperceptible genitalia, and a terrifying frog.

Climate change has forced tens of thousands out. "I know I have a beautiful home," one islander says, "but ultimately it will go into the womb of the river. All we can do is try to delay the process."

Mosques have been broadcasting the Islamic call to prayer over loudspeakers, with the city’s permission.

In exchange for raising the debt ceiling and avoiding a government default, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's plan calls for slashing federal spending, cutting regulations, and putting stricter rules on some social programs.

Democrats caucused in Nevada and Republicans went to the polls in South Carolina. We know the results now — but here's what the day really looked like on the ground.

Fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. went north, leading the Chicago Freedom Movement. Bernard Kleina and his camera were there, too — and the former priest walks NPR through his color photos.

Ben Meenan is a mass media major. He plays the lead role in SUNDAY*.

Peaceful demonstrations on Monday following the funeral of Freddie Gray were overshadowed by violence in the streets of Baltimore.

NPR's Frank Langfitt, who has been driving Chinese people around Shanghai to meet a variety of people and better understand the rapidly changing country, takes his experiment to a whole new level.

Afghanistan is a mountainous land where mountain climbing is rare among men and virtually nonexistent among women. An American is now preparing young Afghan women to scale the country's highest peak.