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China has made developing and selling humanoid robots an economic priority, but getting robots to work requires hours of repetitive "training" done by people to create data about the physical world.

Lawmakers are expressing broader willingness to regulate AI development, but the path forward may not be a quick one.

The Trump administration has tied new requirements to election security grants. Some states told NPR they're passing on the grants as a result.

In Alaska, a federal grant that funded seismic data collection in order to warn people about tsunamis is being cancelled. Experts say cuts like this could make tsunami warnings less reliable.

María del Carmen Abascal's case has drawn tens of thousands of people to the streets in recent days and led the Spanish government to present measures to address the country's housing crisis.

Lung cancer is still the top cancer killer. But new developments are shifting what the future might hold for patients, as one man's cancer journey shows.

Human rights experts commissioned by the U.N. say they have found "reasonable grounds" to believe the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran, including a strike on a school in the southern city of Minab.

Reporting from ProPublica show that some FCC officials in charge of overseeing the multi-billion dollar deal for Paramount Skydance to acquire Warner Brothers Discover may have a conflict of interest.

NPR's Michel Martin asks former Obama administration official Benjamin Gedan about the viability of the Trump administration's plan for Venezuelan oil.

Overprescribing antibiotics breeds antibiotic resistance. A new tool aims to lower a notably high rate of such prescriptions in Rwanda.