All Lee Bender really wanted was a hot shower. Somewhere in the pursuit of that shower, she and five other women touched off a mini-revolution that resulted in two of San Francisco’s most revered ...

Many of the orcas captured and sent to marine theme parks in the 1960s and 1970s came from the Pacific Northwest. An incident 50 years ago this month changed that. A staffer in then-Washington ...

Straddling two continents and shaped by empires, trade routes and contrasting cultures, Turkey truly has something for ...

The deep-diving record went back to France last week. At 10:09 one morning, on the Atlantic 160 miles off Dakar, the French navy's bathyscaphe FNRS 3* submerged. Three hours later she settled ...

Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot a space craft. A new documentary charts her path to the stars. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Collins and film director Hannah Berryman.

Australian Cameron McEvoy broke the 50m freestyle world record, swimming one length of a pool in 20.88 seconds at the China ...

A Marine Raider from Cincinnati, missing since a WWII firefight in 1943, was recently identified through DNA analysis.

In the heart of Glacier National Park, a young diver’s pursuit of adventure ended in a heartbreaking tragedy that shocked all ...

Zac Brown is a 'Survivor' superfan who flew to Fiji for Season 50 to spear fish, cook, and sing for the cast. We join him on the island.

Women of Kenya’s Turkana community often walk miles each day in scorching heat to collect water for their animals and ...

Former Google executive Matt Brittin ‘set to be named BBC director-general’ - Matt Brittin has been on a ‘mini gap year’ ...