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The writer, poet, activist and musician joins Rachel Martin to discuss his latest album, the story of a hacker living in resource-rich Central Africa.

The National Geographic Society, in partnership with IBM, launches the "Genographic Project." More than 100,000 DNA samples, collected over five years, will trace the origin and movement of humans.

A rapturous reception as Pope Francis celebrates Mass with a million worshipers in the capital Kinshasa.

A rapturous reception as Pope Francis celebrates Mass with a million worshipers in the capital Kinshasa.

The group "Curators of Sweden" puts it this way: "Every week, someone in Sweden is @Sweden: sole ruler of the world's most democratic Twitter account."

The court ruled against the family of dictator Francisco Franco and said the government can exhume his body from the monument where it lies. He will be reburied in a cemetery beside his wife.

One of the really big challenges facing our world is how to grow more food without using up the globe's land and water. One company in Ohio says we've been ignoring one solution: insects. It's using larvae of the black soldier fly to convert waste into feed for fish or pigs.

That fish gracing your dinner table now is either caught in the wild - or raised in offshore cages. But with demand growing, researchers are looking for...

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to Morning Edition's poet-in-resident Kwame Alexander about his new Young Adult book: The Door of No Return.

Scientists believe the south pole region might hold frozen water that could help future astronaut missions.