The World welcomes 2025 with this music holiday special. We look at a middle-school teacher in France who uses rap to teach ...

Barilla — the Italian pasta company — has released a six-song “Al Bronzo Soundtrack.” It says the soundtrack is scientifically designed to enhance the taste and texture of the pasta. A University of ...

Rapper Ana Tijoux became an international star in 2010 with her album “1977.” It was named for the year she was born, in France, to Chilean parents in exile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet ...

Singer-songwriter Susan O’Neill is an award-winning artist from Ireland. She’s hoping to break through to a wider audience with her new album “Now in a Minute.” This fall, Susan O’Neill described the ...

Math is often hard. Rap is fun. So, middle-school math teacher Antoine Carrier decided to combine the two. As Gerry Hadden reported last spring, Carrier has created a cool tool for helping tens of ...

In this New Year’s Eve special, The World looks at discoveries from around the globe. With Mount Everest adding an extra 160 ...

Hosts Marco Werman and Carol Hills mention a few things you might have missed in a year of discoveries — including a new space observatory that opened high up in Chile’s Atacama desert.

An almost forgotten horror story by the writer who brought the world “Dracula,” was read at the Bram Stoker Festival in Dublin last Fall. The recently uncovered “Gibbet Hill,” is a short tale of ...

Researchers have used laser-based remote sensing technology to document two urban centers high in the mountains of Uzbekistan. Located along an ancient trade route, these medieval cities were ...

The year 2024 marks 200 years since the first dinosaur was named. Naturalist William Buckland identified a Megalosaurus, or the “great lizard”, in a lecture in London in 1824, marking the beginning of ...

Classic American folk tunes meet beloved ragas from India. As Falguni “Falu” Shah, lead vocalist for the band American Patchwork Quartet, told Host Marco Werman last summer, there’s a lot in common ...

The Restoration Ecology team at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, recently published new research that uses super sensitive microphones to listen to and analyze the health of soil. As The ...