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From left, Chvrches is: Iain Cook, Lauren Mayberry and Martin Doherty. (Courtesy)

With Second Album, Chvrches' Ascent Continues

The trio was hardly known outside of Scotland three years ago. Today, they're headlining festivals.

Gyms Face Dilemma When Accommodating Transgender Clients

Some gyms have faced complaints after allowing transgender gym members to use the locker room of their choice.

Mispronunciations Aside, Computer Speech Has Come A Long Way

We go back in the NPR archives to find a 30-year-old progress report on the development of computer speech from NPR correspondent Ira Flatow. Things have come along quite a bit since then.

On Orders From Mao, Researchers Set Off On Nobel-Winning Drug Work

In the 1960s, Chairman Mao Zedong ordered scientists to find a malaria antidote to help ailing soldiers in North Vietnam. Today's Nobel Prize for medicine went to one of those researchers.

A suspected gang member is detained and accused of collaboration in attacks against the public transport in San Salvador that left nine bus drivers dead and paralyzed the city for three days.

How El Salvador Fell Into A Web Of Gang Violence

Gang violence wasn't always rampant in El Salvador. The Rev. Gerardo Mendez, who works with youth in gang-controlled areas, sat down to talk about how gangs became so powerful in this small country.

Arkansas: Deal With Inmates Over Drug Secrecy Not A Contract

Arkansas' prison system says that an agreement to tell condemned inmates the source of its execution drugs isn't technically a contract and that a judge…

Iraqi tribal fighters opposed to the Islamic State receive weapons training near Amiriyat al-Fallujah in the western province of Anbar. It's been more than a year since the U.S. organized a coalition to fight the Islamic State, but the group still holds much of western Iraq.

Iraq's Fight Against ISIS Stalls

Iraq and the U.S. have vowed to defeat ISIS in Iraq's western province of Anbar. The tribes there want to fight, but their recruits are under-equipped and weak. The country wants more U.S. help.

Luwam Melake (left), a recently arrived Eritrean refugee, and Saba Tesfay, who is half-Hungarian and half-Eritrean, wash, roast and grind coffee beans during a traditional Eritrean coffee ceremony. They performed the ceremony at the Kisuzem restaurant as part of a Budapest food festival celebrating the cuisine from Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea and Somalia.

Budapest Foodies Hope Cuisine Can Help Heal Anti-Migrant Prejudice

Forget the goulash. Budapest's restaurants have been featuring refugee cuisine — think Syrian sweets, Afghan pies and Eritrean flatbread. It's a festival to foster understanding through food.

The "Super-Kamiokande" neutrino detector operated by the University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research helped scientist Takaaki Kajita win a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Canadian Arthur B. McDonald.

Physics Nobel Awarded For Work On Neutrinos' Metamorphosis

Working far apart, both Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald found that neutrinos shift identities like chameleons in space — and that they have mass.

Flood Warnings Weren't Heeded, Meteorologist Says

The director of the Atmospheric Sciences Program at the University of Georgia says experts sounded the alarm that South Carolina's flood would be historic and devastating.

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