The iPhone X has been spotted again on the Apple Store at a discounted price. The 2019 iPhones are rumored to have three camera lenses on their backs, but what could they be used for? Meanwhile, the FaceTime bug refuses to go away. Here’s a roundup of the top iPhone and Apple headlines from...

‘A consistent seven to nine-hour sleep each night is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health’

After decades evading the police, the drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera was convicted in a drug conspiracy trial and faces a life sentence in an American prison.

Michigan State University scientists have identified an early cause of intestinal inflammation, one of the first stages of inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome, which afflict around 11 percent of the world's population.

Exclusive: Insects could vanish within a century at current rate of decline, says global review

It’s the wealthiest Americans who are getting something for nothing, writes Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor

Fancied being part of a reality TV show about colonizing Mars? Sorry.

What separates a lethal prion from dementia-inducing amyloid plaque? Maybe not much

SpaceX has opened a new window into its ambitious plans for a global satellite broadband data network, thanks to an earth-station license application filed with the Federal Communications Commission. The application, filed on behalf of a sister company called SpaceX Services, seeks blanket approval for up to a million earth stations that would be used by customers of the Starlink satellite internet service. The stations would rely on a flat-panel, phased-array system to transmit and receive signals in the Ku-band to and from the Starlink constellation.

How can I find out if my plastic waste is really being recycled? What makes some plastic recyclable and some not? Here are answers from the NPR correspondents working on

Katsu ika odori-don came to global attention in 2010 thanks to a YouTube video that went viral. But how did this unique phenomenon come about?

If the Eagles or Marvin Gaye fan in your life is complaining about this year’s Grammy songs, this might be why.

The country’s antitrust regulator told Facebook it couldn't demand so much data from users simply to have an account. Experts say it’s a big deal.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos claims a lawyer for the National Enquirer emailed his counsel with a threat to post sexual pictures he had sent via text to his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, including a so called "dick pic." In a blog post published Thursday, Bezos accused AMI, the publisher of the National Enquirer, of blackmail and extortion, claiming that AMI has asked Bezos to publicly deny any political motivation in the publisher's coverage of his divorce.

Capsule that releases insulin in the stomach could replace injections for patients with type 2 diabetes.

Robert and Trude thought their son Mats lived a lonely life, but they discovered this was far from true.

Many animals understand numbers at a basic level for use in essential tasks such as foraging, shoaling, and resource management. However, complex arithmetic operations, such as addition and subtraction, using symbols and/or labeling have only been demonstrated in a limited number of nonhuman vertebrates. We show that honeybees, with a miniature brain, can learn to use blue and yellow as symbolic representations for addition or subtraction.

My elementary school teacher taught that those who emerged from the horrors of the camps would die young. A reasonable assumption, but wrong.

Analysis of headlines from the satirical newspaper The Onion could help you — or a computer — write humorous news headlines.

Amazon’s third-party marketplace is chock-full of independent sellers hawking everything from Korean face masks to out-of-print books and moon boots. From a business perspective, the system works great for the e-commerce giant: Amazon gets to sit back and collect fees from those sellers, whose sales on the platform continue to grow. In 2017, for the first time, more than half the products sold on Amazon came from those marketplace listings, rather than from Amazon itself.

When the U.S.S.R. collapsed, Washington bet on the global spread of democratic capitalist values—and lost.

Men who lived alone had a 23 percent increased risk for dying prematurely from any cause and a 36 percent increased risk for cardiovascular death.

Instagram has known about the popular meme account for years — and done nothing about it.

Hotels agree to be clearer about discount claims and stop high-pressure selling tactics.

A version of the club drug is expected to be approved for depression in March. Researchers think it could help treat suicidal thinking.

Comedian, writer, and actor Yassir Lester on finding the rhythm that works best for you, and being comfortable with letting ideas go.

The Norwegian government's groundbreaking $40 billion infrastructure project includes plans to build submerged floating tunnels in fjords.

The magnetic north pole has been drifting away from the Canadian Arctic at a brisk 55 kilometers — about 34 miles — per year, with ramifications for military and civilian travelers.

Roger McNamee, an early adopter of Facebook, was once an adviser to founder Mark Zuckerberg. Today, McNamee is one of the social media giant's fiercest critics. He speaks to host Anna Maria Tremonti about his new book Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe.

A history of smoking cannabis has unexpectedly been linked to greater fertility in men. The result came as a big surprise to scientists measuring the sperm counts of more than 600 men from couples attending a fertility clinic. They expected cannabis to have a detrimental effect on sperm count and fertility.