Every other Friday on Morning Edition, the Outside/In team answers a question from a listener about the natural world. For the past few weeks, we’ve been tackling queries on the theme of “blue.” What ...

Mary Cassatt, “The Blue Room” (1878), oil on canvas, 90 x 129 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington (Image via Web Gallery of Art) The Guardian reported this week that Queen Elizabeth appeared ...

If you live outside of the Plains and Texas, this might be a new one to you, but if you are familiar with a blue norther, I might have just sent chills up your spine! A Blue Norther is a term used ...

Word sequence puzzles constitute fascinating (and fun) experiments in associative thinking—that is, experiments in how we make semantic, conceptual, or formal connections among the words in a set.

A rare astronomical event will occur Monday night, with those in the DMV able to see a super blue moon. The moon will officially go from a waxing gibbous to a full moon at 2:26 PM and will begin to ...

Let’s review the current Blue Lake Recall by comparing past Council/Manager actions with those of the present Council. Over the past decade, a strong partnership between the City Council and a highly ...