The cover art for the 1976 paperback edition of Madeleine L'Engle's classic sci-fi/fantasy novel "A Wrinkle in Time" — featuring a winged centaur and a glowering, red-eyed face — is iconic. And yet, for nearly 50 years, no one has known who illustrated it. Well, not NO ONE. Not a … | Continue reading
The Conversation asked Elana Bernstein, a school psychologist who researches child and adolescent anxiety, to explain the task force’s new draft recommendations and what they might mean for kids, parents and providers. | Continue reading
At the Northfield Mountain pumped storage hydroelectric station, generators are powered by a mountaintop reservoir. | Continue reading
The U.S. surgeon general has advised people to get the opioid-reversal drug. But it's why Isela, pictured, a Boston Medical Center nurse, was denied life insurance. | Continue reading
A team of New England scientists is looking into whether feeding seaweed to the country's roughly 90 million cattle could help cut their methane emissions. The early results are promising -- but skeptics argue seaweed is not a silver bullet. | Continue reading
It's called the Great Resignation. Millions of Americans workers have left their jobs and embarked on new careers. And that's brought a surge of interest in trade schools like the North Bennet Street School in Boston. | Continue reading
A Somerville startup says its rust-based battery generates 25 times the power storage of its lithium-ion counterparts for a tenth of the cost. | Continue reading
Professor Safiya Noble's research found search engines exacerbate racist stereotypes and victimize marginalized groups. | Continue reading
A new study from the University of Hong Kong offers preliminary information that could explain why this new coronavirus variant may be more transmissible. | Continue reading
Logbooks from the New England whaling industry contain meticulous descriptions of 19th century weather. Local researchers are now using those records to fill in gaps in modern climate science. | Continue reading
When you’re in a high place, peering over a ledge or a drop off, do you ever get that super weird feeling that you should just...jump? This is a real scientific phenomenon. It has a name: The call of the void. | Continue reading
The US is one of the most expensive places in the world to build new roads, tunnels, and bridges. Why? And what impact could it have on the infrastructure compromise working its way through Congress? | Continue reading
Where it's popular -- in Massachusetts and now far beyond -- "Russian math" is such a big "thing" that some parents worry their children will be at a disadvantage if they don’t enroll. | Continue reading
Tech giants have a long way to go in supporting "digital democracy" in our shifting society, says Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology. | Continue reading
The coronavirus found a world vulnerable to the worst effects of a pandemic despite warnings from experts and a string of recent global health threats. The system, the report said, remains "unfit." | Continue reading
Alden Research Laboratory in Holden, Mass., build a scale model of the Mississippi River to test sediment diversion plans. | Continue reading
Peter Daszak of the investigative team sent to Wuhan says the farms were probably where the coronavirus first jumped from bats to another animal before infecting humans. | Continue reading
A tiny nonprofit transformed its software to manage COVID vaccine appointments in 27 states. The program, PrepMod, is now under a microscope. | Continue reading
We celebrate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, by looking at New England’s reluctant role in it. | Continue reading
In the aftermath of a violent mob storming the U.S. Capitol building, Endless Thread got back in touch with Indi Samarajiva. Indi's a writer who lived through the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, and he was featured in Endless Thread's "Things Are Bad" episode back in October. Th … | Continue reading
Small businesses and low-income residents in Mass. are drowning, and the federal cavalry isn't coming. It's time to call on the wealthiest among us to pony up, writes Miles Howard. | Continue reading
At the beginning of the pandemic, a New England Conservatory professor found himself scrounging for audio platforms that would allow him to seamlessly play music with people remotely. | Continue reading
In her seventh true-crime book, McPhee investigates the crossed connections and alleyways of the Tsarnaev brothers and the U.S. government. | Continue reading
Kinsa data also proved the effectiveness of social distancing and is now pinpointing new spikes around the country. | Continue reading
The move comes even as city officials say the technology isn't yet used by the Boston Police Department -- though the department could get access to it with a software upgrade. | Continue reading
Faculty were told in an email that "it seems likely that, under any circumstances, most of our instruction will be online." | Continue reading
We remember the African-Americans who lived in the woods of Walden before Henry David Thoreau, and who have been largely forgotten by history. | Continue reading
In the first episode of Endless Thread's new series, "Madness," we hear powerful accounts of abuse at a psychiatric hospital in Montreal, and learn about the renowned doctor who conducted these disturbing experiments on unwitting patients. | Continue reading
The lawsuit claims the decision to move classes online deprived students of the benefits of on-campus education. | Continue reading
So far, people who have tested positive for the coronavirus are identifying fewer close contacts than project organizers expected. Also, many of the people listed as close contacts aren't answering their phones. | Continue reading
On March 13, President Trump promised to mobilize private and public resources to respond to the coronavirus. NPR followed up on each promise and found little action had been taken. | Continue reading
Brigham and Women's Hospital on Sunday said one of its health care workers tested positive for the coronavirus. | Continue reading
If a new treatment for a rare muscular and spinal atrophy disorder works, we pay. If not, we get most -- if not all -- of our money back. | Continue reading
As the BSO embarks on a concert tour in Japan, here's how they pack everything in. | Continue reading
A professor and a group of math-minded students at Davidson have been crunching numbers to help the college's sports teams. | Continue reading
Go behind the headlines: From the economy and health care to politics and the environment – and so much more – On Point hosts Meghna Chakrabarti and David Folkenflik speak with newsmakers and real people about the issues that matter most. On Point is produced by WBUR for NPR. | Continue reading
A new analysis concludes an estimated 14,000 black Americans would have died from the opioid crisis had they been prescribed the drugs at the same rate as their white counterparts. | Continue reading
An inside look at the world's first synthetic frog. | Continue reading
The study says wind farm operators are likely to benefit from the uptick in wind speeds since faster wind means more efficient wind turbines. | Continue reading
Massachusetts State Police is the first law enforcement agency in the country to use Boston Dynamics' dog-like robot, called Spot. That's raising questions from civil rights advocates about how much oversight there should be over police robotics programs. | Continue reading
President Nixon had a speech prepared for him in case the Apollo 11 moon landing turned into a disaster. He never gave that speech -- until now. | Continue reading
Amtrak says it logged an operating revenue of $3.3 billion — a 3.6% increase over the last fiscal year. | Continue reading
Marion Stokes recorded over 70,000 tapes of television from the late 1970s until her death in 2012. | Continue reading
In the early '60s, Craig Breedlove designed, built and drove a jet-powered vehicle that would launch him to stardom ... and almost kill him. | Continue reading
Activision Blizzard is facing criticism for banning a professional player after he made statements in support of Hong Kong protesters. | Continue reading
She is one of a growing chorus of folks opting to forgo having kids because they are worried about the kind of world they'll inherit. | Continue reading
Very little of plastic we recycle is actually removed from the waste stream. | Continue reading
China's data centers draw particular scrutiny because they are still mostly powered by coal. | Continue reading