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Low-glycemic foods that take awhile to digest may help keep weight off longer than other diets. The low-glycemic diet comes out on top in a new study that compared to the low-carb diet and the low fat diet.

A neurologist's unorthodox thinking led to an experimental drug that allows trapped nerve fibers to grow again. And that growth helps amplify signals that restored movement in laboratory rats.

In the 1980s, NPR looked to the film saga to help boost audience numbers. it bought the rights from George Lucas (for $1) and got the original Luke Skywalker. The result was an overwhelming success.

For a few hundred dollars and a vial of spit, a growing number of companies will search your DNA to try to predict your disease risks. One of them hopes to mine their data to find out which genes are linked to Parkinson's disease.

The biggest barrier appears to be whether parties in these talks have what experts say is the "political will" to write a final agreement.

Farmers in southern Oregon are pumping groundwater onto fields. They're not getting lake water for irrigation because water levels there were too low. Now, homeowners' wells are running dry.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jainey K. Bavishi, director of the New York City Mayor's Office of Resiliency, on recent flooding and how the city can prepare for weather events caused by climate change.

First COVID, then Afghanistan, now Ida. The stakes are high for President Biden to show an effective federal response to the hurricane after the chaos in Kabul and the latest pandemic surge.

NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks to author Christopher Oldstone-Moore about his history of the beard, Of Beards and Men.

Delta Airlines and the energy company BP are going carbon-neutral, a big challenge for two businesses that have emitted carbon in large amounts for decades.