Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave talk about the brain benefits of quitting cigarettes, language development in premature babies, and a mysterious imprint in a Chicago sidewalk.

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Henry “Tribes” Amoloja, always knew he wanted to become a barber. What he didn’t know was whose hair he’d be cutting.

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Jacinda Ardern's partner Clarke Gayford is appearing in a new advertisement across the ditch, featuring alongside Aussie comedian Celeste Barber in an ad for audiobook service Audible. The ad shows ...

Ex-Giants running back Tiki Barber has had a pretty eventful past 48 hours. On Monday, he called for his former team's head coach Tom Coughlin to be fired. Daily News football writer Gary Myers then ...

Australian author, actress and comedian Celeste Barber made it big on Instagram recreating photos of actresses and models. Her social media parodies earned her 9.4 million followers on Instagram alone ...

For centuries, the primary way that astronomers studied outer space was through sight. But just ten years ago, scientists successfully established a way to ‘listen’ to our cosmos – detecting ...