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In upstate New York, spring is breathing new life into the woods. We go for a hike in the Adirondack Mountains.

Doug Whitney was supposed to develop Alzheimer's by 50. Now scientists are trying to understand why his brain remains healthy at 75.

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.

We look at the Biden administration's response to the fall of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, as well as President Biden commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people.

Outdoor enthusiast Sam Jones left Australia after posting a video of herself separating a baby wombat from its mom on a dark road. Australians are cheering her departure and worrying about the animal.

As students around the country return to classrooms, Emmet Friend of Chicago, Maria Guillan of Orlando, Fla., and Alice Trithart of Potsdam, N.Y., share their back-to-school feelings.

NPR has collected multiple eyewitness accounts about small, gun-carrying drones shooting — and sometimes killing — civilians in Gaza. Israel's military has not confirmed whether it uses sniper drones.

During a brutal 14-year civil war, Syria's ousted regime dropped hundreds of thousands of bombs and munitions on its own civilians. Now Syria faces the challenge of clearing the unexploded munitions.

Scott Simon and Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media discuss Bill Belichick's move to college football and Juan Soto's massive new contract with the New York Mets.

Mao Zedong built China's Communist revolution on the back of the country's impoverished peasants, and now Chinese leader Xi Jinping wants a new economic revolution to take root in the countryside.