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Windowless bedrooms are not uncommon, especially in student housing. Now Austin, Texas, has moved to ban windowless bedrooms in any new housing.

Bill McQuay is an audio producer with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. For fifteen years McQuay was an NPR sound engineer and technical director for NPR programs including Morning Edition, Weekend Saturday and Sunday, Performance Today and NPR's Radio Expeditions. Radio Expeditions is where McQuay began his long time collaboration with NPR science correspondent Christopher Joyce, a creative relationship that continues today.

As a correspondent on NPR's national desk, Kirk Siegler covers rural life, culture and politics from his base in Boise, Idaho.

The Chicago Rockford Airport had the federal go-ahead to demolish portions of the prairie

Carjackings are up in cities across the country. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with someone who committed a carjacking at 16 about why they did it.

Cockatoos in Sydney have become expert trash bin burglars. Scientists say birds in different neighborhoods have taught each other different techniques to open the bins, a sign of cultural complexity.

A study shows how forced relocation of Native Americans in the U.S. has moved them to lands more susceptible to climate change.

NPR's A Martinez talks to California's Surgeon General Nadine Burke Harris about children coping with adverse childhood experiences brought on by COVID, and what can be done to undo the damage.

Chinese experts say the country's economic, social and political environment played a major role in shaping He Jiankui, the scientist who led controversial research altering the DNA of human embryos.

Behavior and environment are big factors in a surge in obesity. Scientists are busy trying to identify the many genes that play a role in weight gain to develop a predictive obesity test.