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A rare Indian movie centered on the true story of a friendship between a Muslim and Hindu man reached the Oscars, but will it reach their village?

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with glaciologist Ted Scambos about the conclusion of a multi-year study of Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, the "plug" holding back a formidable amount of ice.

Iran's economy was fragile before the war. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, a professor of economics at Virginia Tech, about the current state of the country's economy.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with journalist and author Scott Anderson about Iran's power structure after the killing of Ali Larijani, the head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.

The Strait of Hormuz crisis is leaving thousands of crew members on commercial ships stranded. Arsenio Dominguez, head of the UN's International Maritime Organization, explains.

We trace the origins of the popular aquarium fish the cardinal tetra back to the Amazon to see how even the most remote corners of the world are transformed by the global economy.

A few weeks ago, a video game designer and a musician hid treasure somewhere in the forests of the Northeastern U.S. It's called Project Skydrop. NPR joined the hunt.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Bloomberg AI infrastructure reporter Dina Bass about concerns over circular financing in the AI sector.

Geitaoui Hospital has Lebanon's only unit specializing in burn treatment. Since Israel launched an air and ground invasion of the country to fight Hezbollah, burn cases have mounted.

Kay Redfield Jamison's new book describes how Lowell's manic-depressive illness influenced his life and work. "His manias tended to lead him into writing a fresh kind of poetry," she says.