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Investigations into sudden acceleration involving Toyota vehicles are shedding new light on black boxes in cars. As with black boxes on planes, they can reveal a lot about driver behavior and the car's performance.

On a recent expedition to the North Pacific Ocean UC San Diego researchers discovered plastic in nearly 10% of the fish they found. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is to blame.

Science and religion seem to involve very different ways of seeing the world. But polls indicate many scientists do believe in God. How can people whose profession requires skepticism and empirical re

In The War Lovers, Evan Thomas tells the story of how a few men, led by future President Theodore Roosevelt, helped to provoke in the American public a fervor for combat that led to the 1898 Spanish-American War.

A Haitian businessman who lives in Petionville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, says he stood in line for 8 hours to get gasoline. Still, says Pierre Brisson, who was interviewed last week on All Things Considered, he considers himself among the lucky ones.

For the most part, these are grim days for Catholic nuns. Convents are closing, nuns are aging and there are relatively few new recruits. But in Nashville, Tenn., the conservative Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia are seeing a boom in young recruits. The average age of new entrants is 23.

The Critics Discuss the Winner of Comic-Con's Judge's Choice

Two Americans and a German share the prize for work that used light to make some of the most precise measurements ever performed. Engineers have used the observations of Roy Glauber, John Hall and Theodor Haensch to improve lasers, Global Positioning System technology and other instruments.

Long-time peace educator Colman McCarthy joins us to talk about bullying and violence in schools and why teaching children about peace is vital.

Author Mark Helprin's latest novel is a sprawling tale of love, honor and danger in the years just after World War II. Returned soldier Harry Copeland spots a mysterious woman in white on the Staten Island Ferry. She turns out to be an heiress with Broadway dreams and a complicated past that threatens their growing love.