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Whether it's once a year or once a week, more people are plunging into cold water for fun and health benefits. NPR spoke to researchers about what's true and what's not on this wellness trend.

There have been touching moments — sometimes away from the headlines, and the front lines — that have moved the world this year.

Residents reported strikes in the Gaza's central region, the latest focus of the nearly three-month air and ground war that has now engulfed most of the territory.

We have five biography and memoir suggestions from NPR's Books We Love: "Spare," "Congratulations! The Best is Over," "Sunshine," "Thicker Than Water," and "Sure, I'll Join Your Cult."

NPR's Rob Schmitz asks actor Peter Sarsgaard about making the new movie "Memory" and about the nature of memory itself.

For decades, researchers have said that our mammalian ancestors were solitary but a new analysis turns that thinking on its head, suggesting they were far more sociable than was previously thought.

NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks to author Vanessa Chan about her new novel "The Storm We Made," about a Malayan mother who becomes a spy for Japanese invaders.

In a year in which the European far-right made electoral gains in several countries, Poland proved an exception. This month the ruling Law and Justice Party left power.

At a rare high school in Jerusalem where Israeli Jews and Palestinians go to class together, teachers talk about how they're trying to teach empathy amid war between Israel and Hamas.

Pictures of happiness, of a disappearing Sierra Leonean island, of a pair of flip-flop-clad feet poking out of the Indian Ocean surf: Here are our photo stories from 2023 that we won't forget.