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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…

Three Omaha locations were recently added to the National Register of Historic Places by The National Park Service.David Calease, National Register…

David Greene speaks with NPR's Joe Palca about Morning Edition's upcoming series, "Summer Science."

Matthew Miller, of Bakersfield, Calif., had entered North Korea on a tourist visa. The country says he sought to be thrown in jail to investigate human rights issues.

Nineteen states have passed legislation to make daylight saving time permanent. But those laws won't take effect until Congress makes it legal. And the medical community sees one major problem.

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.