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Humans have long tried to mitigate their own destructive impact on the planet through conservation efforts. Often, those efforts are atta ...

How do we make create good habits, like exercising more or eating healthy food? A new study finds paying people even pennies can help. Today: how to make habits stick.

Harpist Subin Lee plays Composer Henriette Renié's Trio for harp, violin, and cello, and Luke Blackburn's Menagerie of Endangered Creatures: Blue, Vanishing.

Lady Gaga talks with Patrick Stoner about approaching her fellow actors as family. ...

Science journalist Catherine Price on why having fun is so important, why it's underrated and how to incorporate it into our lives.

Investigative journalist David Cay Johnston details in a new book how former President Trump used the Oval House to enrich himself and his family.

Uproar at Penn after a controversial figure is invited to be a visiting scholar. A new grant to help medical workers cope with stress. And - Murphy's Pinelands picks: a shock.

Saul Griffith's hopeful and realistic action plan for fighting climate change while boosting the job market is to electrify, electrify, electrify.

In 2018, Owen Rivers woke up in a hospital bed after a fentanyl overdose — and could no longer form new memories. It was a terrifying e ...

We discuss the psychology behind why and what we give, how it's received and what its says about us. And we'll look at the growing "buy nothing" movement.

Peter Dinklage talks with Patrick Stoner about how he uses his expressive eyes in extreme closeups to convey his inner thoughts. ...

The field of candidates in Pennsylvania's Senate and gubernatorial races keeps expanding. We talk with three political reporters about the candidates and what's at stake.

NPR investigative correspondent Tim Mak on his new book "Misfire" about how the NRA became increasingly tied to the far-right and why the organization is now in jeopardy.

Reactions and calls for change after yet another attack against Asian Philadelphians. A Rabbi talks about opioid abuse recovery. The Philadelphia Union is up to something big.

Tipped workers make a subminimum wage and during the pandemic tips have declined while harassment has increased. This hour, improving work and wages for tipped workers.