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The X-47B drone will be the first to land on an aircraft carrier. It is also jet-powered, unlike its propeller-driven counterparts.

Scientists have long studied how near-infrared light bounces off forests and grasslands, as a proxy for plant health. Now, an artist is using the same trick to turn the Joshua tree into an instrument.

Deputy News Director Susan Sharon is a reporter and editor whose on-air career in public radio began as a student at the University of Montana. Early on, she also worked in commercial television doing a variety of jobs. Susan first came to Maine Public Radio as a State House reporter whose reporting focused on politics, labor and the environment. More recently she's been covering corrections, social justice and human interest stories. Her work, which has been recognized by SPJ, SEJ, PRNDI and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, has taken her all around the state — deep into the woods, to remote lakes and ponds, to farms and factories and to the Maine State Prison. Over the past two decades, she's contributed more than 100 stories to NPR.

Researchers at UNMC are studying a new drug that may assist people with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Daniel Murman, professor in the UNMC…

If you return a book late to the Midtown Carnegie Branch Library in Springfield, Mo., the late fines cannot exceed $5. Whoever returned a book nearly four decades too late left $6, just to be safe.

A Buena Vista University political scientist says redistricting has made Iowa’s Congressional races much more competitive---and negative.The 2010 Census…

Achievement test scores are up in both the Omaha Public Schools district and statewide.The reading, math, and science scores were released Tuesday. This…

For many years people have puzzled over why countries that get richer don't seem to get happier. Now, researchers have an answer.

In a state where 185 of 254 counties have no psychiatrist, how do you get students to want to become one — and then go to work in underserved areas? A loan repayment program may not be enough.

The influenza season is under way and experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn it may be particularly severe. We have an update on the flu and what you can do to protect yourself.