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Renaissance woman Hedy Lamarr was born on this day 100 years ago. Not only was she a major screen actress, she was also an inventor. NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates speaks with Lamarr biographer Richard Rhodes.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Many of Nebraska's senior senators are expressing hope that the Legislature and Governor-elect Pete Ricketts will collaborate next…

The federal government is putting $100 million behind a simple idea: doubling the value of federal food benefits when people use them to buy fresh produce. This idea started small but became a hit.

On Wednesday, the Creighton Institute for Economic Inquiry will host a lecture by Father Robert Sirico.Ernie Goss, MacAllister Chair and Professor of…

UNO’s Office of Latino/Latin American Studies is presenting a lecture by Cecilia Menjivar this morning at 11:30.Menjivar, an El Salvador native and…

After a launch that failed last fall, the administration is hoping this year's open enrollment period goes more smoothly, by letting customers browse first.

Never mind the physics. Color isn't just a particular wavelength of light, it turns out. It's a fascinating mix of context and what's happening outside and inside your head.

Civil asset forfeiture rules say all that matters is that the car or house or cash was used by somebody in a crime. Challenging the seizure is often too costly to be worth it.

Tristan Walker, founder and CEO of Walker & Co. Brands, and J.J. McCorvey, a writer at Fast Company, discuss the tech industry's diversity problem.

Can you run a clinical trial without a placebo group? That's one of the questions facing researchers in West Africa.