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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Art Cullen discusses the battle to keep print news alive in small-town America. Cullen runs Iowa's Storm Lake Times, along with his brother, the paper's publisher.

Paleontologists announce finding an animal skeleton that may bridge the gap between fish and the first four-legged land animals. The 375-million-year-old creature, with a head like a crocodile's, has a body built for swimming. But its front legs are a compromise between fins and feet.

Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor died this week. NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the former ambassador to Iran's heroic role during the 1979 hostage crisis.

A 23-year-old Washington woman was sentenced to 40 years in prison Wednesday for stabbing her mother to death and leaving her body in a nature preserve…

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.