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More and more doctors are offering ketamine, an anesthetic and club drug, to severely depressed patients who haven't responded to other treatments.

Scientists use a new gene-editing technique to prevent mice destined to go deaf from losing their hearing. (This piece initially aired Dec. 20, 2017 on All Things Considered).

Daniel Alarcón's new collection of short stories follows a young man living in a capital post-revolution and includes an Abraham Lincoln love story, set in modern-day Chicago.

A zoo in Blackpool, UK has a solution for the shameless seagulls stealing food from visitors and animals alike: get someone to chase the gulls in a giant eagle costume. The zoo is currently hiring.

In this leap year, experts and leap day babies weigh in on the pros and cons of adding a 29th day to February.

President Obama gave an impassioned defense of his signature legislation after announcing 7.1 million Americans had signed up by the end of the law's first open enrollment.

Winters was best known for creating a repertory company of characters that he carried around in his head. In 2000, he told NPR's Scott Simon how he built that cast, after taking some advice from another performer.

At the end of 2015, 65.3 million people had fled conflict and persecution, the refugee agency says. That's one in every 113 people — or 24 people every minute. And very few found places to resettle.

Brett Goldstein is a writer for Ted Lasso and plays Roy Kent, a gruff but lovable retired footballer-turned-coach. He says, "sport is there so men can say 'I love you' without saying 'I love you.' "

A report from the Natural Resources Defense Council finds that 40 percent of food in the U.S. today goes uneaten. But grassroots groups are working to turn food waste into something useful.