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Robert Wood, an electrical engineer at Harvard's Microrobotics Lab, is engineering colonies of RoboBees. They don't sting, and they can be used for surveillance or crop pollination.

Melissa Mayeux plays shortstop for two of France's national teams: the U-18 junior squad and the senior softball team. She's known as a smooth fielder who can also handle a bat.

For many Christians, November 1 is All Saints' Day, set aside to remember those who've died. NPR's Michel Martin takes this time to reflect on recollection — and who decides what memories are honored.

Ammunition and tools for explosives were found in the car and home of the San Bernardino shooting suspects. A day after the attack, the investigation is widening and the region is struggling to cope.

The head of the governor's commission studying the Newtown shootings said he is direct contact with the family of gunman Adam Lanza. The commission that…

President Obama apologized for the attack on a hospital. But six months later, victims say they're facing a complicated bureaucratic process over compensation.

Beginning in the mid-1930s, state and federal governments examined ways to improve road transportation around the country. While some federal roads linked…

McCain was one of four students who sat down at an all-white lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., on February 1, 1960. He died yesterday at the age of 73.

The confrontation between a school resource officer and a student in a South Carolina school has revived questions about the role of law enforcement in the nation's classrooms.

Since China's three-decade-old one-child policy has been in place, it has impacted countless families both there and in the United States.