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Joe Palca speaks with 2006 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine about their work and what it's like to win the prize.

The Christmas Day attempt to blow up a U.S. airplane has exposed critical weaknesses in airport security measures. Critics have focused on technological and intelligence gaps, but some also question whether authorities are focused enough on other measures to identify suspicious people.

'Toy Story 3' and 'The Goonies' Get Special Treatment

Many women were full participants in the Arab uprisings. Now, some are wondering where it's gotten them. Those who were expecting more rights after the Arab Spring are instead finding themselves frustrated.

Nearly one-third of American women report being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives. Host Gloria Penner talks with the director of the Family Justice C

In December 1997, a tiger prowled the outskirts of a small town in Russia's Far East. In his book The Tiger, John Vaillant re-creates the events of that terrifying winter in an environment where man and tiger live side-by-side.

Host Tom Fudge talks about the new Superman movie with Film Club of the Air regular Scott Marks and University of Minnesota physics professor Dr. James Kakalios, who authored the book The Physics of S

The president's special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan died Monday at 69, days after suffering a tear in his aorta. He held many diplomatic and foreign policy positions over the years and, in 1995, negotiated an end to the Bosnian War.

When a psychiatric technician at Napa State Hospital was murdered last fall, allegedly by a patient, staffers began going public with their safety complaints. More than 80 percent of the patients at the hospital arrived by way of the criminal justice system — deemed either not guilty by reason of insanity or just too dangerous to be paroled.

Read an exclusive excerpt of Lionel Shriver's latest, Big Brother. Shriver is no stranger to controversial topics, from school massacres to the American health care system. Big Brother is a comedic take on obesity and its effect on an Iowa family.