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NPR's Juana Summers talks with economics professor Caitlin Myers, who has been tracking travel distances to abortion facilities, about the impact of Florida's ban on abortion after six weeks.

Popcorn has been around at least 4,000 years. The Aztecs even had a word for the sound of kernels popping — totopoca. On National Popcorn Day, ponder the story of this beloved snack.

The incoming Trump administration is likely to crack down on the H-1B visas used by tech companies and research institutions to hire top talent from other countries.

In the world of science, 2011 may go down as the year of the retraction. Lots of highly publicized discoveries got debunked this year. And many of those discoveries involved findings that both scientists and the public really wanted to believe.

By Dan LockeCouncil Bluffs, Iowa – The Iowa School for the Deaf plans to build a state-of-the-art science center for its students.The $1.5 million dollar…

(Information in the following story is from: Lincoln Journal Star, http://www.journalstar.com)LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A judge has ordered a man who killed…

By Katie Knapp SchubertOmaha, NE – More than a dozen American Red Cross volunteers from Nebraska, including three from Omaha, are assisting storm victims…

A monthly survey of economic conditions in nine Midwest and Plains states is down for the fifth time in six months.Creighton University economist Ernie…

With his brown skin and long dreadlocks, Marc Quarles stands out in his predominantly white neighborhood. He's particularly aware of that, he says, when his biracial children aren't with him.

The Omaha Public Schools board has six new members.Voters in the OPS district chose nine board members in Tuesday’s election. Earlier this year, the…