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This summer, we've talked to authors, scientists, performers and others to find out what they've been reading, for work and for fun. We also asked our listeners to tell us what books have kept them up through the night, eager to find out how the story ends.

The 15 Asian elephants — some mature and others still young — left a nature reserve near China's border with Myanmar and Laos more than a year ago and have been northward bound ever since.

Paying bills during the pandemic can be difficult. A survey by NPR, Harvard and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found of the four largest U.S. cities, Houston feels the crunch the worst.

Scott Detrow speaks with Seattle Times reporter Marisa Ingemi about COVID-19 in hockey. The NHL has postponed several games because of infections.

For decades, it was impossible to say that a specific weather event was caused, or even made worse, by climate change. But advanced research methods are changing that.

Anastasiia Konovalova was a teacher in Odesa, Ukraine, when the war started. In a matter of weeks, she established a school for Ukrainian refugee children that now has a 600-person waitlist.

Companies are bracing for potential trouble ahead by lowering their advertising budgets, cutting costs and adapting to their customers' changing spending habits.

In 1969, an explorer and photographer named Loren McIntyre was dropped into the Amazon rainforest to try and make contact with a tribe called the Mayoruna. Now his story is headed to Broadway. The show uses binaural audio to play sounds of the rainforest in 3-D.

A new law allots billions for research and manufacturing semiconductor chips. The chip industry is enthusiastic, but says bringing chipmaking to the U.S. will be a long, complicated process.

Landing a job at Goldman Sachs is a golden ticket. It's harder to get hired by Goldman than to get into Harvard. CEO David Solomon says 3,500 workers start this week. He wants them all in the office.