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An 18-year-old from Texas created an app using artificial intelligence that may someday help detect suicide risk.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former Georgia state legislator Stacey Abrams about her latest novel: Rogue Justice. She has a third Avery Keene novel in the works.

For parents of teenagers, adolescence can be challenging, but to a brain scientist it's a time of breathtaking development. And it's a "window of opportunity" on the way to becoming an adult.

Ablaye Ndiaye, who has Down syndrome, carried the torch in the opening ceremonies, brought energy and joy to the court and won a medal in basketball at this year's games, which concluded on Sunday.

Scientists say they've found evidence of a very long gravitational wave that could open a window onto supermassive black holes — and perhaps even other extreme, unseen objects in the universe.

Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old high school junior, was shot by a white homeowner after he went to the wrong address to pick up his brothers. The shooter was charged on Monday after criticism over delays.

Scientists say remains of four men exhumed from what was once an Anglican church suggest they were well-nourished, "high-status" leaders in the early 17th century colony. And one was likely Catholic.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Ariel Kushner Haber about her late father, Rabbi Harold Kushner, who died last week. He authored many bestsellers, including "When Bad Things Happen to Good People."

For the first time, astronomers have caught a star in the act of swallowing a planet, providing a glimpse into how the sun may eventually eat up Earth.

Kara Jackson is mostly known for her poetry. But singing was her first love, and she's now out with her debut album, Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?