Dr. Anita Hill joined Radio Boston to talk about her long career of advocacy and her upcoming performance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Two thousand flowers are in bloom right now at the New England Botanic Garden's annual orchid show. But tucked among the living plants are dozens of sculptures of orchids made from single-use plastic bags.The exhibition is called "Patterns in Bloom" and it's the brainchild of New England artist Molly Gambardella.

Amidst growing biotechnology competition between the U.S. and China, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party visited biotech labs in Boston this week.

Radio Boston talks about some potentially big changes to COVID isolation guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Ahead of a national election season in 2024, community organizations are trying to get out the word to local Black voters to make their voices heard.

"The Jar is a 21st-century model to help people create, catalyze and deepen meaningful relationships with people who are like them and not like them," founder Ben-Aharon said. "It allows people to show up fully as themselves."

Lisa Alexander of Boston College Law School, Andrew Brinker of the Boston Globe and Chris Dempsey of the city planning firm Speck Dempsey join Radio Boston to discuss an upcoming referendum in Milton over whether to comply with the MBTA Communities Act.

Two hundred years ago, an English geologist named William Buckland found a fossil unlike anything he’d ever seen. He called it "Megalosaurus" and thought it belonged to a large lizard. Little did he know he’d discovered the first of a group of animals that still fascinate us today: dinosaurs.

We get to know Massachusetts Congressman Stephen Lynch, from his time as an iron worker and lawyer, to how he's changed in the nearly 30 years he's been in elected office. Plus, how a cheeseburger may have saved his life. Seriously!

WBUR climate correspondent Barbara Moran joins Radio Boston to explain what's causing wastewater to enter Cape Cod's bays and estuaries and what some enterprising residents are doing about it.