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It isn't just crafty marketing that draws us to that newest gadget, restaurant or travel destination. According to Winifred Gallagher's latest book, we're biologically predisposed to be attracted to novelty and change.

Rebels and the government of Nepal have signed a peace deal. The agreement ends a 10-year insurgency, and begins a new political era in the Himalayan nation. Wednesday has been declared a national day of celebration for the accord.

Is it possible that, one day, beef production will not require grazing land, feed lots or slaughterhouses? In Britain, burgers made from cow stem cells were put to the taste test on Monday.

For one year, on her daily walks, poet Harryette Mullen observed the collision of the natural world with the man-made environs of Los Angeles. She translated her impressions into a series of tankas, 31-syllable poems in the Japanese tradition. The resulting collection is called Urban Tumbleweed: Notes From a Tanka Diary.

As Thanksgiving draws near, many of us are thinking about what we're thankful for. Novelist and memoirist Anne Lamott says she is filled with "wonder at the just sheer beauty of creation." She discusses her new book, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.

What if the song "Baby Shark" stopped after just two stanzas? There's no Daddy Shark in sight at a Chicago-area zoo where an epaulette shark pup hatched this summer.

Italo Calvino's delightful "cosmicomic" stories have long been scattered — split into separate books and translated in pieces. Now, a collection new to the U.S. is finally bringing them together.

Meg Wolitzer's novel is about lifelong friendship tinged with jealousy. It begins at a summer camp in 1974 and follows a group of friends through middle age. Wolitzer says her teen years were a rehearsal for her adult life and that today she is "different" but "in the same shell."

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to GOP Rep. Will Hurd about former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson's testimony before the House Intelligence Committee about Russian influence in the 2016 election.

Kate Lynnes of Albuquerque, N.M., shares her "signature song," "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" by Marvin Gaye, which inspired her to become an environmental consultant.

For some cats, leashed walks "can certainly create environmental enrichment, get them some more exercise," says veterinarian Grace Cater. Other cats? Not so much.

A nearly complete fossilized skull from Argentina helps explains the success of these giant dinosaurs that roamed some 95 million years ago.

Famed Cellist Yo-Yo Ma has a project dedicated to promoting and celebrating ecological healing. That led him to Glacier National Park to play for a herd of newly reintroduced bison.

As the U.S. seeks to penalize Russia, the country still has a strong lobbying presence in D.C. How much of a pariah must a nation become before it loses its public presence in the U.S. capital?

Researchers say the creatures pose little threat to humans but they are concerned about the growing prevalence of invasive species — a problem made worse by global trade and climate change.

Scroll through Life Kit's New Year's Resolution Planner to find the perfect goal this year, whether it's exercising more, paying off your credit card debt or having more fun.

Halloween is one of the busiest wedding days of the year for the San Bernardino county clerk. For the first time, they're performing weddings for couples at Calico Ghost Town.

"Words can't do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years," Parton wrote in a statement.

Books "overtly promoting DEI, gender ideology, and critical race theory" are under new scrutiny following a memo issued by acting Assistant Secretary of the Army Derrick Anderson.

The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.