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One in 5 American children struggles with anxiety. To help students cope, more and more schools are turning to mindfulness — but the explosion of interest has some researchers advising caution.

Brain scans show that when people listen to songs, an area in the left hemisphere decodes speech-like sounds while one on the right processes musical information.

You may have heard the word "coronavirus" online or on TV. You probably have a lot of questions. Check out our comic to get some answers — and print out a zine version at home.

The U.S. stock market ended its worst week since the financial crisis with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 12.4%. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell promises to support the economy as necessary.

To close out Black History Month, Short Wave is highlighting just a few of the many incredible black scientists we've featured so far on the show.

The new cases, which have yet to be confirmed, were reported in California, Oregon and Washington. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization says the risk of the disease spreading is now "very high."

From the debate to the primaries — South Carolina and Super Tuesday — we give you the week's big political stories.

As voters prepare to go to the polls on Super Tuesday, there's an ad war playing out in Charlotte, N.C.

Voters in South Carolina will be at the polls for Saturday's primary.

The National Book Award-winning author has a new novel called Deacon King Kong. It's set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969. "Time and place is really crucial to good storytelling," he says.