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An Arizona utility wants to build a new reservoir in the desert it says will lower its carbon footprint. There are skeptics.

Texas' immigration law has raised fear that it'll promote racial profiling by police. The concerns evoke memories of what happened after Arizona passed its so-called "show me your papers" law in 2010.

Two sisters struggled to remember troubling childhood events until adulthood. A neuroscientist and author gave them the science and the language to turn their work into a dance performance and a book.

The aftermath of Israel's raid on Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital and airstrike on foreign workers shows the risks of an even wider assault on Rafah, where most Palestinians are now sheltering.

That's the finding of a new study in Bangladesh, which gave reading glasses to hundreds of people and then measured their earnings.

"A lot of things started going wrong from the very beginning," historian Hampton Sides says of Cook's last voyage, which ended in the British explorer's violent death on the island of Hawaii in 1779.

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Rebecca Abou Chedid of the aid organization Anera about its decision to stop operations in Gaza after the death of seven World Central Kitchen staff.

The deadly earthquake struck Taiwan during the morning rush hour on Wednesday — collapsing buildings and triggering tsunami warnings in Japan and the Philippines.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to journalist Ruchi Kumar about the Taliban's recent announcement that women would once again face death by stoning for adultery.

For our series The Science of Siblings, we hear how researchers have found out that caring for siblings can make people happier.