Guy Bartal, from the light refraction lab at Berkeley, talks about the research his lab is doing on "invisible cloaks." Bartal oversees research in this lab and is a co-author of two papers that came out this week on light bending.
The Peabody Award-winning journalist covered wars and ethnic conflicts in more than a dozen countries. In his last years, he turned his reportorial skills inward, chronicling his encounter with cancer in a blog for NPR titled simply "My Cancer." He died Friday at age 53.
At 20, the guitarist and songwriter from Glasgow has already sold 1 million copies of her debut album overseas. On the eve of the U.S. release of This Is the Life, MacDonald played a few songs and spoke with Scott Simon.
Biofuel advocate David Blume talks about common misconceptions about the use of ethanol for fuel, and about his vision for decentralized, community supported ethanol production in the United States.
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A global study shows the number of "dead zones" — areas of ocean with too little oxygen for most marine life — has increased by one-third since 1995. In the latest issue of the journal Science, researchers say these polluted waters are the leading threat to life in coastal oceans.
In 1963, Dr. Gustavo Mestas and his family escaped from Cuba and Fidel Castro's communist regime. His daughter, Ileana Smith, was 10 at the time. When she asked about their move recently, her father responded with a laugh. "That is a very complex problem," he said.
Dallas' unique court initiative focuses on keeping individuals with minor drug offenses out of prison. Studies show that the rehabilitation-focused program, led by a charismatic judge, is simultaneously reducing the recidivism rate and saving tax dollars.
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For two years, the author lived in a Laotian hospital, in an apartment above the operating room. His experiences there inspired characters — including a country coroner — for the books he would later write.
If you're among the people who make personal calls on a company mobile phone, the Internal Revenue Service may want to talk with you. The IRS considers such cell phone calls to be a taxable extension of your compensation package.
Every day, millions of people are asked to retype sequences of squiggly letters so Web sites can verify they're not automated spammers. A scientist has figured out how to harness that manpower to digitize old books.
When he was a child, Howard White's mother taught him the importance of a simple, polite greeting. Now an executive at Nike, White believes everyone he meets deserves to be acknowledged. For him, that begins with "hello."
Scientists from the National Geographic Society were hunting for dinosaur bones in the Tenere Desert in Niger. Instead, they found the graves and remains of people who lived there as long as 10,000 years ago.
Wyoming's booming natural gas industry has increased wages around the state, but inflation has risen as well. The hot natural gas trade has also had a cooling effect on the service industry.
Over the last hundred years, generations of skin doctors and immunologists have worked to develop some sort of pill that will reverse the sensitivity to urushiol — the sticky resin in poison oak, poison ivy and sumac that triggers the itchy allergy.
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For historian-turned-mystery-writer Jason Goodwin, the bustling Istanbul bazaar is a perfect setting for murder, and the evening call to prayer is "a good time to kick a man to death in the street."
If you've been watching the Olympics, you've probably seen swimmers finishing dives and coming off turns with a whiplike underwater kick. The so-called dolphin kick can give swimmers an extra surge in the water.
If not for a turn of history, Sunny Boy Kiefer would be included in an exalted group of swimmers, from Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe to Mark Spitz and Michael Phelps. Starting in 1935 when he was 17, Kiefer set backstroke records just about every time he jumped into the pool.
Women are currently the fastest growing segment of the prison population in the United States. The Ohio Reformatory for Women meets this expanding population's unique set of demands with an in-house nursery.
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The largest mental institution in the U.S. is actually a wing of Twin Towers, an L.A. County jail. The sheriff says it doesn't make sense to incarcerate the mentally ill, but as long as it's the only option, he's trying to make it work.
Scientists have been studying the mechanics of the dolphin kick used by elite swimmers such as Michael Phelps and Natalie Coughlin. They've found that swimmers are more efficient while submerged rather than at the water's surface.
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