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Latino USA put out a call on social media asking listeners to share their linguistic mishaps. Here are the results.

One of our producers goes deep into a theory about music and romance she developed in Argentina when she was 16.

In the 1970s, Consuelo Hermosilo and nine other Latina women took L.A County Hospital to court for allegedly sterilizing them without proper consent.

Mobile phone voice recognition programs like Siri and OK Google are all the rage these days. But when you try to talk to them in a mix of English and Spanish, the results can be confounding.

A city in Brazil is using a genetically modified mosquito to control the spread of diseases like Dengue fever and the Zika virus. NPR reports on whether the scheme is working.

James Pampush devoted five years and his Ph.D. dissertation to one question: Why do homo sapiens have chins, when all of our evolutionary relatives don't? He tells NPR's Robert Siegel about "the enduring puzzle of the human chin."

Researchers have uncovered a juicy tidbit that could be the parasite's undoing.

How many cases of microcephaly in Brazil have actually been linked to the Zika virus? Of the nearly 4,200 cases reported, only six have been linked with certainty to the virus.

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with our regular political commentators, E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times about the week's political news.

Paul Kantner co-founded the band Jefferson Airplane with Marty Balin in 1965. When that band broke up, he founded Jefferson Starship and led the band for more than 40 years. Kantner died in his native San Francisco Thursday after suffering a heart attack earlier in the week. He was 74 years old.