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Singer-songwriter Susan O'Neill is an award-winning artist from Ireland. She's hoping to break through to a wider audience with her new album "Now in a Minute." This fall, Susan O'Neill described the inspiration behind it and plays a few tracks. This story originally aired on Sept. 19, 2024. 

Barilla — the Italian pasta company — has released a six-song “Al Bronzo Soundtrack." It says the soundtrack is scientifically designed to enhance the taste and texture of the pasta. A University of Oxford experimental psychologist, who worked on the project, says the science behind this is real. Last spring, The World's Bianca Hillier looked at what's known as "sonic seasoning." This story origin...

Math is often hard. Rap is fun. So, middle-school math teacher Antoine Carrier decided to combine the two. As Gerry Hadden reported last spring, Carrier has created a cool tool for helping tens of thousands of pre-teens with pre-algebra and geometry. This story originally aired on April 2, 2024.

Gabriela Ortiz is one of Mexico’s best-known classical composers, and she’s becoming better known in the United States, as the Los Angeles Philharmonic has premiered many of her rhythmic, colorful compositions. As Jeff Lunden reported, this fall she began a season-long residency at New York's Carnegie Hall that has offered many exciting new pieces. This story originally aired on Oct. 11, 2024.

Researchers have used laser-based remote sensing technology to document two urban centers high in the mountains of Uzbekistan. Located along an ancient trade route, these medieval cities were abandoned and forgotten and only recently rediscovered. Now, they have been mapped.  This fall, Host Carolyn Beeler spoke with archaeologist Michael Frachetti of Washington University in Saint Louis, lead aut...

Classic American folk tunes meet beloved ragas from India. As Falguni “Falu” Shah, lead vocalist for the band American Patchwork Quartet, told Host Marco Werman last summer, there’s a lot in common between these two music traditions. This story originally aired on June 17, 2024. 

Mountains are in constant motion. That includes the world’s tallest peak, Mount Everest, in the Himalayas. It’s added an extra 160 feet in the past 89,000 years, according to a study released in 2024. Adam Smith, a geoscientist at University College London and one of the study’s authors spoke with Host Carol Hills about how and why mountain ranges grow. This story originally aired on Oct. 1, 2024.

Mount Everest has a lot of claims to fame. Among them: the vast quantity of trash left behind by climbers. For years, local Sherpas and volunteers have been clearing trash from the mountain, which is arduous and exhausting at best, and even deadly at worst. This fall, Nepal deployed drones to help carry the load, as The World's Sarah Birnbaum reported. This story originally aired on Aug. 28, 2024.

A project in South Africa aims to reduce demand for rhinoceros horns by making them radioactive. Last summer, Host Marco Werman spoke with Professor James Larkin at the University of the Witwatersrand, who is inserting small quantities of radioisotopes into the horns of live rhinos, allowing for their detection and reducing their value as a commodity. This story originally aired on June 28, 2024.

The year 2024 marks 200 years since the first dinosaur was named. Naturalist William Buckland identified a Megalosaurus, or the "great lizard", in a lecture in London in 1824, marking the beginning of dinosaur science. Last winter, Host Carolyn Beeler spoke with archeologist Steve Brusatte about how far dinosaur science has come and what we're still learning about these creatures from the past. Th...

The Restoration Ecology team at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, recently published new research that uses super sensitive microphones to listen to and analyze the health of soil. As The World's Bianca Hillier reported this fall, the researchers say this new method could replace traditional ones, which are expensive, disruptive and laborious.  This story originally aired on Sept. 18, 20...

Meteorites from Argentina are sold at rock and mineral shops across the world. And for the most part, they have been illegally obtained. Buying and selling meteorites is prohibited in Argentina. This fall, reporter Michael Fox traced a meteorite necklace to its source, at the Campo del Cielo meteorite field in Argentina. This story originally aired on Oct. 16, 2024. 

Hosts Marco Werman and Carol Hills mention a few things you might have missed in a year of discoveries — including a new space observatory that opened high up in Chile’s Atacama desert.

Who doesn't have a fond childhood memory that's grown hazy with time, especially because there was never a photo to solidify it in the mind's eye? Well, as The World's Gerry Hadden reported from Barcelona last spring, a Spanish AI company can create the image on paper based just on the memory. This story originally aired on May 21, 2024. 

An almost forgotten horror story by the writer who brought the world “Dracula,” was read at the Bram Stoker Festival in Dublin last Fall. The recently uncovered “Gibbet Hill," is a short tale of horror. Host Carol Hills spoke with Stoker enthusiast Brian Cleary, who discovered the 130-year-old story. This story originally aired on Oct. 25, 2024. 

One of President Jimmy Carter's greatest legacies touches people's lives in highly remote parts of the world to this day. He targeted what are known as "neglected tropical diseases" — ones that upend people's lives, like river blindness and guinea worm. The World's Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Kelly Callahan, who worked with Carter in various parts of Africa.

The 39th President of the United States died on Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia at the age of 100. The World's Sarah Birnbaum takes a look back at President Jimmy Carter's legacy in American foreign policy.

Every year on New Year's Eve, a longstanding German tradition has been to gather around the television and watch an 18-minute, black-and-white British comedy sketch from 1963. It's called "Dinner for One," and features a wealthy old woman and her butler. Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman explain the tradition.

December is all about celebrations across much of the world, but in Ghana, it’s on a whole different level. Welcome to Detty December, which consists of back-to-back parties, beach raves and unforgettable moments. To give us a feel of the action, Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman takes us to a buzzing beach in Ghana’s capital Accra.

Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman look back to a year that brought us the hottest temperatures on record. Carolyn reported from inside the Pantanal region of Brazil where fires ripped through an Indigenous community for months. Also, The World's Patrick Winn went to Bangladesh to see how they've been able to significantly decrease the death toll caused by dangerous cyclones thanks to an effect...

In 2002, former US president Jimmy Carter went to Cuba. There, he called for an end to the decades-long US economic embargo against the island nation. In the same speech to the nation, in Spanish, Carter told host Fidel Castro it was time to allow for free elections and freedom of speech. More than two decades later, little has changed. The World's Gerry Hadden reports.

It’s the holiday season, a time when many of us think about end-of-year giving. The needs are immense. Both close to home and around the world. Stacy Palmer, the editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, speaks with The World’s Host Marco Werman about effective global giving strategies.

Crews continue sifting through debris after a plane crash-landed and burst into flames in South Korea on Sunday. It's not clear what caused the disaster, which left 179 people dead and only two survivors. The Boeing 737-800 was flown by an experienced pilot with more than 6,000 flight hours under his belt. Authorities say the jet received a bird strike warning just before the crash.

Nearly a quarter of a million people died from the earthquake and tsunami of December 26, 2004; the majority of deaths were in Indonesia. But one island, off the coast of the hardest-hit province in Sumatra, had just a handful of deaths. Researchers say residents on the island of Simeulue survived, in part, because of folklore passed down from generation to generation. Twenty years later, locals a...

Normal life is returning to many places in Syria. Children are going back to school, students back to universities. There are clean-up campaigns in different cities. Meanwhile, Syria's revolutionary flag is being painted on walls and buildings across the country, while former soldiers in the regime's military are being processed and handing in their weapons. Expatriates and refugees who haven't be...