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Surprise, anger, parenting and Lizzo: That's one way to sum up the list of the most engaging stories in 2019. Other big topics included consumerism and climate change — and officials behaving badly.

Verizon says a software problem caused the glitch and it is conducting a postmortem, but experts say outages are "a fact of life" these days.

The White House's top drug control official is set to visit New Mexico on Thursday for a forum on addressing the opiate crisis.Michael Botticelli,…

Cookbook author Diane Morgan says there's much more to a carrot than the orange part. But too often, she says, the root vegetable's frilly green fronds end up in the trash.

Not paying someone for a job they did is illegal. It's called wage theft. But in California, the worst offender has paid only a tiny fraction of the millions of dollars in wages he owes workers.

In A History of the World in Twelve Maps, Jerry Brotton examines the construction of a dozen world maps throughout history, and argues that world maps are no more objective today than they were thousands of years ago.

Neptune isn't as blue as people think, and astronomers have figured out why Uranus sometimes appears a tad greener. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Jan. 5, 2024.)

The self-organizing behavior of starlings reveals insight into "murmurations".

In Europe, a perhaps surprising source for nucleation is dust from the Sahara.

Damage estimates from deadly Memorial Day weekend storms and flooding in Central Texas have topped more than $80 million for public property.The Austin…