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California biotech companies could benefit greatly from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on patent law. Some patent experts believe the ruling could allow companies to eventually own genetic materials.

Shocked by the poverty he saw on a reporting trip, a Chinese journalist set up a program to provide meals to 25,000 poor children in rural China, many of whom suffer from malnutrition. Indirectly, his efforts have prompted the government to ramp up its efforts to feed the country's most vulnerable.

The University of California, Berkeley, has made it a practice to offer its Nobel laureates an extra-special perk: a free lifetime permit to park in the highly coveted spaces near the central campus. The spots would normally cost about $1,500 a year.

When a body washed up on the shores of New York's East River in 1897, the race to solve the murder sparked one of the country's first great newspaper wars. Weekend Edition's literary detective Paul Collins tracks that war's progress in his new book, The Murder of the Century.

In many parts of the U.S., it's hot. People are thirsty. But if you're Muslim, you can't drink from sunup to sundown during Ramadan. A comedian, an athlete and two imams describe how they cope without water — and coffee and soda. It's a "fight, trying not to grab a pop out of the refrigerator," one says.

Was Homer Simpson Running The Fukushima Power Station?

Starting next year, Medicare will pay for all sorts of preventive services and recipients won't have to shell out a dime. But workouts, aren't on the list.

As a nation remembers the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Fronteras reached out to hear your stories.

The disaster in Japan, which has the third-largest economy in the world, could have ripple effects around the globe, including the United States. But economists say it's much too soon to say whether the worst-case scenarios will actually come to pass.

The director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) says America's investment in science is key to stimulating the economy. Francis Collins is in San Diego for the conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.