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Emergency room departments are reporting soaring numbers of pediatric trauma accidents associated with micromobility devices. Experts and advocates agree that the federal government needs to step in. Copyright 2026 NPR

Some South Korean schools have imported a U.S. educational model to boost literacy skills and independent thinking eroded by AI and a test-focused Korean educational system.

The Office of Army Cemeteries have returned the remains of 11 Native American and Alaska Native students who died while attending the Carlisle boarding school in Pennsylvania more than a century ago. Copyright 2026 WITF

In the woods near a Maryland juvenile detention center, officials found the graves of more than 200 Black boys. It's one of 40 similar gravesites across the country, from Oregon to Maine.

Leading researchers in heat exposure are coming together to reach a consensus on what we know — and don't — about the health benefits of sauna and its potential for treating and preventing disease. Copyright 2026 NPR

DonnaJean Wilde held a plank for five hours at the Huntsman World Senior Games earlier this month in Utah. It could be a new world record for longest plank held by a woman. But why does she do it?

Ads promoting President Trump and his policies continued to be paid for by the U.S. government well after Trump announced he would have his MAGA Inc. super PAC take over funding the ads and kept airing despite a federal judge ordering them to come down. An NPR analysis of data from AdImpact finds that nearly $22 million in taxpayer dollars has been spent to air the ads since the campaign began in late September. Nearly $10 million of that total was spent after Oct.

A Ukrainian company that got rich making smartphone-controlled cameras to watch pets at home now outfits first-person-view drones with an image recognition system powered by artificial intelligence. Copyright 2026 NPR

Protesters in the Indian capital have again defied authorities to demonstrate against a controversial revision of the country’s voter rolls that has seen 130 million people removed or threatened with removal. NPR’s Diaa Hadid reports. This article was originally published on WBUR.org. Copyright 2026 WBUR

Click here for the original audio. Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the devastating asteroid impact 66 million years ago. The songbirds you see today are directly linked to the velociraptor, triceratops and T. rex. In June, Here & Now‘s Scott Tong spoke with Steve Brusatte, a paleontologist, about his new book “The Story of Birds,” which explains how birds evolved and how they survived the extinction event that wiped out so many other species.