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From The Stone Age To The Digital Age In One Big Leap

Date: 03/28/2013

by: Juan Forero

In the heart of the Amazon in western Brazil, an Indian tribe called the Surui lived in the stone-age as recently as the late 1960s.

Date: 03/28/2013

by: Mark Memmott

Police found hundreds of rounds of ammunition, guns, three photos of "what appears to be a deceased human covered with plastic" and other evidence when they searched the Newtown, Conn., home of kil

by: Nancy Shute

Allergy shots have long been one of the best available treatments for hay fever, other allergies, and asthma, but they're a pain.

Date: 03/25/2013

by: Tom Bowman

When the Pentagon said earlier this year that it would open ground combat jobs to women, it was cast in terms of giving women equal opportunities in the workplace — the military workplace.

Mosh Pit Math: Physicists Analyze Rowdy Crowd

by: Geoff Brumfiel

Physics and heavy metal don't seem to have a lot in common, but Matt Bierbaum and Jesse Silverberg have found a connection. Both are graduate students at Cornell University.

Face-To-Face With Death In Iraq

by: Kelly McEvers

On the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, NPR is catching up with some of the people we encountered during the war.

by: Jonathan Blakley

Pope Francis has now been installed and the world's Catholics are looking to see where he will lead the church.

by: Eyder Peralta

The race to fill South Carolina's 1st Congressional District has gotten quite a bit

by: John Ydstie

Amid Washington's dysfunction, one issue has united some liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans: a common concern that "too big to fail" is alive and well.

by: Jon Hamilton

Alzheimer's disease doesn't just steal memories. It takes lives.

by: Maureen Chowdhury

Defense Distributed, an organization best known for advocating open-sourced

by: Deborah Amos

As Syria's revolt enters a third year, Syria's political opposition is meeting in Istanbul this wee

by: NPR Staff

Here's the plan: Find someone, get married, grow old together. But what if you've done that, and suddenly you find yourself back at square one?

Letters To My Dead Father

by: Kelly McEvers

Ten years after the U.S. invaded Iraq, NPR is taking a look back, revisiting people and places first encountered during the war.

by: Cheryl Corley

During the March Madness of 1963, playing was infused with politics. The NCAA matchup between Loyola University of Chicago and Mississippi State helped put an end to segregated basketball.

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