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Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have pushed back the barrier of how small we can see to a record, atom-scale 0.6 angstrom, over 100,000 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair. NPR's Michele Norris talks with physicist Stephen J. Pennycook about the microscopic breakthrough.

More than 1,000 people have now been charged for the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. NPR has tracked every case from arrest to sentencing. Here's what is happening to those charged.

Scott Detrow speaks with Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon about the enduring popularity of the fighting game franchise.

Nearly 1,400 people died after Hurricane Katrina crashed into Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of the deaths were in New Orleans, which has had an uneven recovery in the past 20 years.

A list of the groundbreaking musicians, producers and journalists we lost in 2021.

The repairs to the Liberty Road overpass on Eastbound I-94 on Ann Arbor’s west side are set to begin this afternoon and are expected to cause a significant traffic disruption. WEMU’s Josh Hakala has an update.

The American automaker reported that tariffs cost it $1.1 billion and reduced the company's profit margin from 9% to 6.1%.

A new World Health Organization study finds 1 in 6 infections worldwide are resistant to some antibiotics, highlighting a growing threat from drug-resistant bacteria.

A study in Nature suggests the amount of carbon that humans can still emit and still keep warming to 1.5 °C may be exhausted within the next 6 years.

NPR has documented an alarming pattern of hoax school shooting calls across the country. Now another pattern has emerged: bad actors using these moments to spread misinformation online.