National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek tells Host Carolyn Beeler about Suyanggae, South Korea, an archaeological zone with ...

The World Health Organization has released a new study saying that an estimated 107,500 people died from measles in 2023, ...

The Biden administration will begin sending US military contractors to Ukraine. This policy reversal was first reported late ...

Last night’s Latin Grammy Awards were filled with lots of performances, awards and glitter. The World’s Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Carol Hills give some of the highlights.

There is likely no one among the more than 2 million Palestinians in Gaza who hasn’t been touched by war in some way. More than 43,000 people have been killed in Israeli attacks, and many have been ...

A feature film shot before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine tells the story of one of the country’s most famous national heroes. His name is Oleksa Dovbush. During the 18th century, Dovbush is said to ...

For decades, Okinawa, Japan, has prided itself as a hotspot for longevity. In 1999, the Japanese islands were listed as one of five “blue zones”, where people statistically live the longest, often ...

At a bar, your olive pits end up in the trash. In Spanish olive presses, however, they’re collected, dried and sold as a “bio-fuel” for furnaces. In the race for sustainable heat sources, even big ...

According to a new study from the World Health Organization, measles is estimated to have killed 107,500 people in 2023, most of them under the age of five. The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler talks with ...

A lot of the energy consumed in cities comes from commercial and residential buildings. Heating those buildings is a big part of that. In Boston, some of the largest buildings in town will be heated ...

With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, East German culture disappeared practically overnight, cast aside for the newly ...

In a lightning round of science news: volcanic history on the dark side of the moon, updates for sky-watchers ahead of this weekend’s supermoon and Leonid meteor shower and a new finding about cats’ ...