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Have you been tinkering away on an invention you hope will be the next big thing? Or, perhaps you've already built a better mousetrap but don’t know how…

The atmosphere of school choice in Wisconsin is the subject of study by people on many sides of the education reform debate in this country. But so is the…

For a second consecutive year, Marquette University’s English Department, and its friends and alumni group, are throwing a birthday party. The honoree…

For many people in Milwaukee, their fish consumption increases exponentially during the season of lent. But for others, the Friday fish fry is simply part…

Why is so much academic writing basically unreadable? Steven Pinker says the writers are cursed with too much knowledge. "They don't know that the jargon…

The Rosetta mission - the first probe ever to land on the surface of a comet - had no people aboard. But if it had, and they were American, Jim Locke…

Winners of this year's John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott medals — some of the most prestigious prizes in children's literature — were announced Monday. NPR takes a look at the award-winning books.

New Zealand has declared war on tobacco with a remarkable new law. The indigenous Māori population, with the country's highest smoking rate, has a lot to gain. But they have a bone of contention.

Since May of 2002, Gary Ellenbolt has been bringing South Dakotans the news of a new day on SDPB's Morning Edition. Imagine the guy in the local coffee shop who knows everything, can't wait to tell everyone, and throws in a clever phrase now and again, and you'll have an idea of the typical morning on South Dakota's only statewide radio network.

A new traveling exhibition called Native Fashion Now has debuted at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.