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A woman at a filling station in Kansas thought some kind of nature show was playing on the video screen above her pump. Then she realized it was an actual snake behind the screen.

According to U.S. Census data, more than 36 million Americans live by themselves. A few chime in with suggestions for weathering the pandemic alone.

A curator of mollusks at a natural history museum, listener Kevin Roe shares some of his favorite musical picks: Skip James, Abida Parveen and Nick Cave –- three singers with rich, evocative voices.

Two Americans and a German share the prize for work that used light to make some of the most precise measurements ever performed. Engineers have used the observations of Roy Glauber, John Hall and Theodor Haensch to improve lasers, Global Positioning System technology and other instruments.

Every answer today consists of the names of two famous people. The last name of the first person is an anagram of the first name of the last person. Given the nonanagram parts of the names, you identify the people.

Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss discuss the roots of their creative partnership, shouting as a natural extension of singing and their new album, Reign of Terror.

A cyclone hitting Bangladesh and Myanmar is threatening one of the world's largest refugee camps.

Great white shark populations have been difficult to track around Cape Cod due to the species' elusive nature and smaller populations, according to researchers.

The DNA of a young boy, buried more than 12,000 years ago in Montana, shows a direct line to today's native people.

When it comes to the health benefits of cold water dips, the hype is ahead of the science. NPR talked to researchers about what's true, what's not, and the latest on how to get the most out of it.