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"China's law does not really encourage people to defend themselves, because that would be encouraging them to rise up and resist [authority]," a Chinese lawyer noted.

Scientists predicted that more than 1,000 babies would be born with the birth defect in Brazil last year. That never happened. Why?

A cluster of neurons connects breathing and emotion centers in mouse brains, researchers say. If this turns out to be true in humans, it could explain how controlled breathing calms the mind.

Director of the Northwest Sacred Music Chorale, Stan McDaniel joined Verne this morning to talk about the chorale's upcoming concerts featuring Handel's…

Life Overtakes Me, a short documentary, is about refugee children who fall into a comalike state. We interviewed the author of a New Yorker article about this condition.

President Trump has called NAFTA a "catastrophe" and threatened to impose a border tax on Mexican imports. How does that impact produce companies with operations on both sides of the border?

On Wednesday the Idaho House of Representatives voted to remove the state’s 6% sales tax on groceries. This follows a similar vote by the Senate last…

The Washington State University women’s basketball team lost its chance to win a national postseason tournament last night (Wednesday). The Cougars saw…

The bodywide inflammation known as sepsis kills about 300,000 people in U.S. hospitals each year. Promising treatments have come and gone, warn skeptical doctors, who call for rigorous research.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Ames Simmons, director of transgender policy at Equality North Carolina, about the compromise measure to repeal most of the state's controversial bathroom bill.