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Scientists — 2 from Japan and 1 from the U.S. — have won the Nobel Prize in physics for the invention of blue light-emitting diodes — a new energy efficient and environment-friendly light source.

Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German scientist Stefan Hell have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for "the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy."

Ukraine's incursion into Russia opens a third front that Kyiv is counting on to build leverage and morale. NPR's A Martinez talks with the Financial Times' Ukraine correspondent Christopher Miller.

Thousands marched in D.C. and New York and hundreds in Boston, spurred on by anger over the fatal police shootings of Michael Brown and Tamir Rice and the choking death of Eric Garner.

Sean Sexton is still working the cattle ranch in Vero Beach that his ancestors settled more than a hundred years ago. WGCU's Cary Barbor talked with him…

With 40 percent of its students at risk of failing, one radical new high school in Washington, D.C., wrestles with whether to lower its own high expectations.

A train that runs between Seattle and Chicago had about 160 onboard when it ran off the track Saturday afternoon in Joplin, Mont, the train agency said. Multiple people are injured.

Actress Tippi Hedren talks with her daughter, actress Melanie Griffith, and her granddaughter, actress Dakota Johnson, about how being a woman in Hollywood has — and hasn't — changed over the years.

The scenes from Haiti may look familiar, as heavily armed gangs trade fire and civilians cower in fear. But there is something different about this latest episode.

After the 2001 al-Qaida attacks, the CIA ramped up counterterrorism operations. This included a surge in young, female recruits. Three have written new books about their secretive work.