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At the American University of Beirut where up to 1,600 rescued cats roam the campus.

The physics of the spiral pass have baffled physicists and football fans for decades.

Scientists have placed two seismometers 8000 feet below the ice cap at the South Pole to measure earthquakes and support tsunami alerts.

NPR's Emily Kwong talks with Mara Hoplamazian about the new podcast, "Safe to Drink," about Merrimack, New Hampshire's fight for clean drinking water.

Research shows it helps to start small if you want new habits to stick. NPR's Life Kit has more.

On the first Sunday of the Olympic Winter Games, downhill skier Breezy Johnson captured the first gold for Team USA. And Alpine racer Lindsey Vonn crashed and was transported to the hospital with a broken leg.

Ukrainians are dismayed after skeleton sled racer Vladyslav Heraskevych was banned from the Olympics for his helmet decorated in honor of war victims.

Allegra Goodman's new novel is called This Is Not About Us, but critic Maureen Corrigan says that title is coy: Readers are bound to see aspects of themselves and their families in these pages.

A half century on, Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese's film about urban isolation and a lonely cabbie, is perhaps more relevant than ever

After months of wrangling and much tension, India and the US have finally released a framework for an interim trade agreement