PARKER CURRY: Hi. I'm Parker Curry, and I take dance classes. LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: 4-year-old Parker Curry is also the author of the book Parker Looks Up. Jessica Curry Morton is her co-author and her mom. JESSICA CURRY MORTON: What is Parker L...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Frozen II has swept the holiday movie season with all the elements you'd expect - wind, water, fire, ice and, of course, a big ballad... (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, INTO THE UNKNOWN) IDINA MENZEL: (Singing) Into the unknown, ah, ah...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: What makes a banana taped to a wall worth $120,000 to someone? If it's been put there by the right artist. This banana was duct-taped to a wall by Maurizio Cattelan, the Italian artist, and it's on display this week at Art Basel in...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It's the holiday gift for when you can't think of what else to give somebody - good for old, young, women, men, north, south. NPR even sells them - socks. And they're having their moment in the fashion world. Steven Frumkin is dean...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Our dogs grow old more quickly than we want. The old rule of paw, if you please, is that for every human year, a dog ages seven. Scientists have come up with a new way to calculate that. And their formula may be more accurate, but...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: What did Mike Pompeo know, and when did he know it? Questions turn (ph) around the secretary of state in the impeachment investigations. Did he know, as witnesses testified, that President Trump demanded political favors from Ukrai...
Why Did Trump Delay Security Aid To Ukraine? AILSA CHANG, HOST: Why did the Trump administration delay nearly $400 million in security aid to Ukraine? That is the question at the heart of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Was it because,...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. Few things are more satisfying than sleeping late on weekends. But though the extra z's may improve your mood, they do not appear to improve your health. Because a new study shows that...
This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata. It sounds like a witches' recipe: gather the hearts of a fence lizard; a little brown bat; a naked-tailed armadillo; and dozens of others. So initially we tried to get them...
This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata. Every spring, migratory birds flood back to where they breed. That migratory behavior is accompanied by some human behavior: In English-language Wikipedia, the page views fo...