Refuse-derived fuel, or RDF, is essentially what the name sounds like: fuel made up of discarded materials, including agricultural waste and plastic trash. Every year, potentially large amounts of ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe passed into the outer atmosphere of the sun and took incredible images of the sun’s corona. Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Nour Rawafi, astrophysicist and Parker Solar ...

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Solar power has reached critical mass, according to author and environmental activist Bill McKibben, and it's already transforming the way humans consume energy.

President Trump says he wants to make sure the United States wins the artificial intelligence race. The White House says ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump about the sentencing of Brett Hankison, the former police ...

With this debut novel of an immigrant torn between the U.S. and Nigeria, Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo takes her place among the ...

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Roland Reisley is the last original client of Frank Lloyd Wright, still living in the Usonian home designed by the famed ...

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Lawmakers are poised to give California’s water districts legal cover from lawsuits as they work to meet strict new state ...

The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee tells the federations overseeing swimming, athletics and other sports that it has ...