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It isn't easy to make money as an artist these days, but three crafty New Yorkers are managing to sell their work — and make a living — outside the traditional gallery system.

A new study finds that science is assimilated within a web of existing attitudes and beliefs, a core part of which concerns a person's social identity, says Tania Lombrozo.

Efforts to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus have shut down factories across China, part of a vast supply chain the world's economies rely upon. The economic impact is global.

NPR's David Greene talks to NBC reporter Ben Collins, who studies the radical web, about how the Internet can radicalize people and how social media can be weaponized.

Novelists Nella Larsen, Wallace Thurman and George S. Schuyler forged their art in what W.E.B. Du Bois famously called the "double-consciousness" of African-Americans.

The University of California, Davis, hired companies to scrub the Internet of any references to a pepper spray incident that occurred on the campus in 2011. This revelation comes amidst calls for the resignation of Chancellor Linda Katehi who hired the contractors. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Sam Stanton of the Sacramento Bee, who broke the story.

Chat rooms and websites offered support for many gay kids growing up in small towns in the 1990s who felt detached from their peers. In the span of 20 years in the same Louisiana town, one teen today has had a very different experience than a woman who grew up there in the '80s.

Network science is shining a spotlight on everything from your status in high school — it's not as simple as how many people you know — to the spread of diseases, says commentator Adam Frank.

At the end of September, NPR joined forces with the Sunlight Foundation and The Washington Post to present the 2012 Election Hackathon, which drew nearly 100 developers to D.C. for a 26-hour programming challenge. See photos and apps from the event and hear from some of the winners in our wrap-up.

Comedian-turned-politician Beppe Grillo's populist Five Star Movement is soaring in the polls ahead of elections this weekend. His rallies have attracted tens of thousands of Italians tired of a poor economy, widespread corruption and political patronage. But there are concerns that no one knows what Grillo's movement stands for.