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About 40 percent of invertebrate pollinator species such as bees and butterflies are facing extinction, according to the global assessment.

Why is a 200-year-old icon of the medical field still in wide use in the digital age? Some say modern tools are more informative and worth the extra cost, but the stethoscope has staunch defenders.

Chief Jarrod Burguan says the push for Apple's help to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters is "an effort to leave no stone unturned in the investigation."

Jewish men and women turning 52 Monday are also having their 13th leap year birthday, finally getting a chance to celebrate their Bar or Bat Mitzvah. NPR takes a look at how they are celebrating.

Thomas actually passed the 10-year mark of silence during oral arguments earlier in the month. But that moment was largely overlooked amid the coverage and controversy surrounding Scalia's death.

Adam Grant, author of Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, tells us what makes an original, how parents can nurture originality in their children, and its potential downside.

In Petina Gappah's new novel, an albino Zimbabwean woman named Memory is charged with murdering her adoptive father. She narrates the tale from inside a maximum security prison in Harare.

China's Internet authorities have shut down all social media accounts of Ren Zhiqiang, a sharp-tongued real estate mogul compared by some in China to Donald Trump.

Beyonce's Formation video has shocked some who were unaware she was a political activist. She is just the latest in a long line of black entertainers who have been involved with political causes.

With Donald Trump likely to loom large in Super Tuesday contests, Steve Inskeep talks to Mike Leavitt, the former governor of Utah, for a sense of what the Republican Party establishment is thinking.