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David Perlman, age 98, talks with Steve Inskeep about his career as a science writer as he gets ready to retire from the San Francisco Chronicle after 77 years.

A social entrepreneur in Brussels is encouraging computer geeks to change the district's reputation from a hotbed of terrorism to a source of innovation — and the results so far have been remarkable.

The fight over voter registration policies continues in Kansas. A few years after putting major changes in place, thousands of registrations have been suspended for lacking a proof of citizenship.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Carleton University professor Aaron Ettinger about the expected impact on Canada of Donald Trump's re-election as U.S. president.

President Trump's threat to halt Venezuelan oil sales stirs fear, but for a country long battered by shortages, it's just another crisis.

Edna O’Brien, one of Ireland’s most celebrated authors, has died at 93. Critics have praised her novels for honest portrayals of women’s passions.

The same receptor on nerve endings that makes sinuses tingle when we eat wasabi plays an important role in the pain of inflammation. The first 3-D view of the receptor could lead to better pain drugs.

The GOP carried Arizona in nine of the last 10 presidential elections, but Hispanics in Maricopa County could swing the state to the Democrats this November.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Frank Close, a physics professor at Oxford University, about theoretical physicist Peter Higgs. Higgs died on Monday at the age of 94.

For decades, Illinois has failed to return Native American remains and belongings to their communities despite a federal law mandating states to do so.