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Clean, fresh water is an essential element to life — not only do people and animals depend on it, but it also sustains many businesses and agriculture. The majority of the fresh water used worldwide goes to irrigation, and the need is expected to rise with the growing global population.

Tieyan Liu of Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing says that as a researcher, he isn't focused on the competition, but rather on his own projects — and on how best to collaborate with his colleagues in the U.S. He reflects on what his facility has meant for Chinese-educated researchers and for the country's universities.

Health, energy and the environment, science and foreign assistance were among the areas that saw larger reductions in the fiscal 2011 budget request. Some of President Obama's pet projects, such as "Race to the Top" aid for public schools, managed to avoid the ax.

With the swine flu virus more widespread than ever and concerns about availability of the vaccine circulating, we solicited your questions about the pandemic. NPR's health editors teamed up with experts to tackle your questions.

U.S. intelligence officials say Najibullah Zazi, the man arrested in September for allegedly plotting to blow up targets in New York, contacted one of Osama bin Laden's right-hand men.

Tyler Perry continues to buck the Hollywood system by making his own movies and eschewing the conventional means of promoting them. With the exception of…

This One Should Have Stayed on the Shelf

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Chelsea’s Law in San Diego Thursday to put some sex offenders away for life. Friends, family and lawmakers attended the ceremony in Balboa Park to honor the murdered Poway teen the law is named for.

Institutional Wellbeing, on view through August 9th at Oceanside Museum of Art.

Conceptual artist Brian Goeltzenleuchter creates a special scent for Oceanside Museum of Art.