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The Kentucky Derby is known for its horses, and the spectacular hats that attendees wear. But this year the pandemic has milliners adding an extra accessory to the famous headgear.

"I didn't call them to come help my brother die," Joe Prude told NPR. "I called them to come help me get my brother some help."

Every birthday, 28-year-old Matthew Robson's dad got him the same present: a bottle of 18-year-old Macallan single malt. With one rule: don't open it. The whisky is now worth about $53,000.

An experimental drug let mice spend a month in the International Space Station's near-zero gravity without losing mass. It could help people spend years in space without major health consequences.

Fires and record temperatures are wreaking havoc in California. The governor has declared a state of emergency. NPR discusses what's the been like in the state this Labor Day weekend.

None of us is perfect, and sometimes the Hubble Space Telescope just flat-out points to the wrong spot in the sky. This has been happening more than ever in the last couple of years.

In the original, a gigantic bear is on the prowl. After nearly 40 years, Grizzly II is coming to streaming platforms and drive-in theaters. It stars Laura Dern, Charlie Sheen and George Clooney.

Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, Ore., have been persisting for over 100 days. And now counterprotesters from the right are making their presence felt in the state.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Hanna Yahorava, the executive director at the Regional Press Publishers Association in Belarus, about the government's increasing crackdown on its critics.

Scientists and engineers in California are building a unique 3.2 billion pixel camera for a telescope under construction in Chile. The camera has taken its first test pictures — of broccoli.