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By Katie Knapp SchubertOmaha, NE – Preventing and reducing the number of preterm births is the focus of this month's Science Cafe.Doctor Jack Turman, a…

By Katie Knapp SchubertOmaha, NE – Personalized medicine is the focus of UNMC's latest Science Caf .The field of personalized medicine studies how drug…

Nebraska’s prairies and the wildlife that call them home are the subject of Tuesday's UNMC Science Café.Chris Helzer, program director for the Nature…

In a fickle media market, Disney's overall revenue grew 4%. Despite declining ad revenue and uncertainty over the Hollywood writers and actors strikes, CEO Bob Iger sees growth opportunities.

Huge advances in hurricane prediction have been made in the years since Hurricane Andrew. NPR's Jon Hamilton is at the National Hurricane Center in Miami where researchers are tracking hurricane Frances and trying to predict where and how hard it will hit. He reports on the latest developments in hurricane science and technology - and why it's still proving so difficult to predict the intensity of the storm.

Summer living is supposed to be easy — school is out, the days are long, the traffic eases. But it's not all diving boards and lemonade: Summer can throw us some curveballs, too. NPR kicks off its Summer Science series with tips from a fire scientist on how to build the perfect campfire.

It's the epic quest of campers everywhere: How do you toast that marshmallow just right? As part of our Summer Science series, NPR turned to a fire engineer for some professional guidance.

The new documentary about Al Gore and global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, scores on two counts, say two NPR experts. It does a good job on the "big-picture" science of climate change while being a "pretty terrific movie," too.

According to the facial feedback hypothesis, the simple act of putting a smile on your face can boost your mood. But recent research shows pasting on a grin can have mixed results.

Eight young people were in an SUV when it flipped over a guardrail and into a pond. All were from Warren, Ohio. "It's going to be a rough week, a rough rest of the school year," says the local school superintendent.