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Falcon Lake, on the U.S.-Mexico border, has been named the best bass fishing lake in the country. But a Mexican drug cartel also uses the lake to smuggle drugs. While that hasn't kept the anglers away, it does mean fishing there carries an element of risk.

Opposing petition drives in Nebraska could present voters with competing choices on abortion. The one with the most votes wins.

On HBO's Game of Thrones spin-off, a question of succession turns the show into Succession.

The idea of an afterlife has fascinated humans for millennia. In a recent Intelligence Squared debate, two teams faced off over the concept of life after death from a scientific perspective.

The BepiColombo spacecraft flew less than 200 miles from Mercury's surface and photographed volcanic plains and icy craters.

Daniel Zwerdling is a correspondent in NPR's Investigations Unit.

Diets often fail in the long term because they're too strict or require unnatural eating habits. In a new book, Barry Estabrook turns to science and history to find a weight-loss regimen that works.

The study found 51 close encounters came within of 50 feet or less of a manned aircraft. There were 28 instances, where a pilot had to maneuver to avoid a collision with a drone.

A 2,000-foot tower, proposed by developer Christopher Carley and designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, would rise above the lakefront... and give Chicago the nation's two tallest buildings.

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.