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The FDA is evaluating whether to approve the first ever genetically engineered animal to be eaten as a food -- a fast-growing, farm-raised salmon. But some say there are food safety and environmental concerns that need to be addressed.

In her new memoir, NPR's All Things Considered co-host uncovers some painful family secrets — the "things left unsaid" by her African-American relatives as they tried to shield the younger generation from memories that haunted the past.

How do our bodies change when we reach middle age? How can we keep ourselves happy and healthy when battling the stresses of the current economic climate? We'll talk with a doctor who focuses on the connection between weight, mood and sex in midlife.

What laws prohibit employers from discriminating against employees, or potential employees, based on physical appearance? Can employers legally discriminate in this manner?

Pollution remains a major problem in Beijing, despite citywide efforts to reduce it in time for the Aug. 8 start of the Olympic Games. Coaches and athletes worry about how the poor air quality will affect health and performance.

Pick an event, any event. The upcoming Super Bowl. Or the recent State of the Union address. More and more, it seems that we are caught up not so much in the event itself — the football game, say, or the president's speech — but in the events around the event.

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case that pits California's right to run its prisons against the Constitution's guarantee that those behind bars get basic minimum medical care.

The world-famous physicist has been hospitalized in England, Cambridge University officials said Monday. The university said Hawking was comfortable and would remain in the hospital overnight.

At the atomic level, things can be messy at room temperature — particles tend to jump around. But a group of physicists have found that if you cool things way down, and apply a magnetic field, some quantum particles align in elegant symmetrical arrangements.

'Il Divo' Kicks Off This Year's Festival