As many as 40 percent of students who intend to go to college don't show up in the fall. Education researchers call this phenomenon "summer melt," and it has long been a puzzling problem.

All of us think back to turning points in our lives, and imagine how things could have unfolded differently. Why do we so often ask ourselves, "What if?"

How many ads have you encountered today? On this week's radio replay, we discuss the insidiousness of advertising in American media.

It doesn't just keep them entertained. New research highlights an unexpected positive impact — and also shows that when a parent sings to a child, the parent can benefit, too.

To us non-babies, babbles like "ah-gah" and "dadadadada" can sound like cute gobbledygook. But they don't have to be such a mystery. We'll get a primer on how to decipher the dialect of tiny humans.

How many ads have you encountered today? On this week's radio show, we discuss the insidiousness of advertising in American media.

How do you convince a generation of people who once slaughtered each other to reconcile? In Rwanda, a team of psychologists, writers and policymakers came up with an unusual idea: a radio soap opera.

Imagine seeing a cockroach skitter across your kitchen counter. Does the thought alone gross you out? This week on Hidden Brain, we discuss disgust.

Finding a new job may be the solution to your woes at work. But there may also be other ways to get more out of your daily grind.

Every time you give in to the buzzing notifications of our phone or computer, you pay a price: little by little, you lose your ability to focus.

If you've ever shouted at Siri or rolled your eyes at your Roomba, you know that artificial intelligence isn't always that smart. But there's still a lot that robots can tell us about ourselves.

The abolitionist Harriet Tubman has now been memorialized with a state park in Maryland's Eastern Shore. A visitor center commemorates her role in transporting dozens of slaves to freedom.

Roberta Cordano is the first Deaf woman to lead Gallaudet University, the world's only liberal arts university for the deaf and hard of hearing.

The White House and other government agencies are not required to follow the Fair Labor Standards Act when it comes to paying interns. Many interns struggle to survive in the nation's capital.

Skin tone is only part of the challenge for an oft-tattooed customer who wants to see herself reflected in the "human canvases" of tattoo artists.

Different skin tones call for different tattooing approaches. That can make things difficult on tattoo artists and their customers alike.

"Dwell time" is the amount of time visitors spend wandering through a museum. In most museums, that's around two hours. But in the newest Smithsonian, some visitors are there for as long as six.

While most Westerners see the swastika as a symbol of Nazi Germany or white supremacy, it has been a symbol of good fortune in Asia thousands of years before Hitler.

Creaky doors and squeaky floorboards are part of the territory of an old house. But what about the unexplained sounds that come and go?

People can be found riding bicycles on sidewalks around the country. But should sidewalks double as bike lanes?