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School shootings, social media, beauty standards. 13-year-olds Erika Young and Norah Weiner delve into what middle school looks like today in their award-winning podcast.

As university faculties around Illinois strike for better pay and working conditions, budget analysts have found that state spending on higher education has fallen dramatically over the past 20 years.

Palestinians mark 75 years since what they call the Nakba , or "catastrophe," when Palestinians were displaced in Israel's founding war.

Palestinians mark 75 years since what they call the Nakba, or "catastrophe," when Palestinians were displaced during Israel's founding war.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Daniel Runde of the Center for Strategic and International Studies about Secretary of State Antony Blinken's recent Caribbean trip and the state of U.S-Caribbean relations.

In Mel Eslyn's film Biosphere, the last two men on Earth must adapt and evolve to save humanity... or play video games.

Nearly a third of Americans were under extreme heat advisories, watches and warnings. In Nevada, Arizona and California, desert temperatures could soar, in parts, past 120 F.

Hint: The answer doesn't revolve around buying more gadgets. Nor does it depend on you dragging yourself to the gym seven nights a week. This calls for a concerted attack — while moving.

Many struggle with tremors and balance much of the time, but when the music starts, these people dance. It gives them joy — body and soul. Scientists say dance might have lasting brain benefits, too.

Microscopes illuminate the tiny. But sound? Scientists didn't really see it as all that important, until an amazing invention came along that opened new worlds: the stethoscope.