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Out in Alaska's Bering Sea, about 90 miles from Nome, sits a small, rocky island that used to be home to a couple of hundred Inupiat Eskimo. They lived in houses built on stilts, perched on rocky cliffs.

Women in the U.S. military have been flying warplanes for years, and recently began serving in artillery and tank units. But they're still barred from direct ground combat. Now, for the first time in the course's 35-year history, the Marine Corps is putting the first women through its grueling Infantry Officer Course: 86 days crawling through obstacle courses, lugging heavy machine guns, navigating the woods at night.

A Horror Love Story

A small percentage of college students commit most of the rapes on campus. Research suggests that the attitudes of male friends can either lead men to commit rape or stop them.

For an extra layer of online protection, author P.W. Singer advises making your security answers something counterintuitive, like pizza.

Navy corpsman Angelo Anderson was never much of a tennis fan, but he'll be running among the game's greatest players over the next two weeks as he serves as a ballperson for the U.S. Open. Anderson survived bone-shattering bullet wounds while serving in Afghanistan, and is now able to walk - and run - with enough skill to beat out 500 applicants for the ballperson job.

Army Specialist Kelli Hewlett serves on the frontlines of Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital, helping soldiers return home

When high school junior Nora Huynh got her report card, she was devastated to see that she didn't get a perfect 4.0.

Twenty years ago, many scientists didn't think that genes could cause diseases like cancer. The discovery of the BRCA gene for hereditary breast cancer changed that. Mary-Claire King tells how.

The scientist is known as much for his contributions to theoretical cosmology and quantum gravity as for his willingness to make science accessible for the general public. His work is the topic of a new biography by science writer Kitty Ferguson.