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Benefits, Risks And Ethical Concerns Of Drones

Drones and other Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or UAVs, are a new technology that some are embracing. But others have concerns about privacy issues and how UAVs will be used and regulated. We take a look.

A 19th-century samovar made from silverplate, from the private collection of Sheldon Luskin. On loan to The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis

Tea Tuesdays: Cold Weather, Gogol And The Rise Of The Russian Samovar

The giant, metal, hot-water urns are at the center of Russian tea culture — and national identity. How that came to be may have as much to do with Russian literature as common usage.

A discarded syringe lays along the side of busy street in Tijuana, April 25, 2015.

Training Tijuana Cops To Avoid HIV Infections From Needle-Sticks

UCSD is partnering with Tijuana police and a Mexican research center to train the officers

Army Says Troops Coming Back From West Africa Will Face 'Controlled Monitoring'

The troops will be confined to a housing complex at their base in Italy for 21 days. The news comes just as the White House tried to convince New York and New Jersey to drop mandatory quarantines.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, has her temperature taken as she arrives in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Monday. Power is on a visit to West Africa to get a first-hand look at the global response to the epidemic.

U.N. Ambassador In Sierra Leone For Closer Look At Ebola Crisis

Samantha Power is on a multi-nation swing through West Africa to see how the global response to the deadly virus is faring.

At Home In The Strange Latitudes Of 'Man With The Compound Eyes'

Taiwanese author Wu Ming-Yi's new book, his first to receive an English translation, is a haunting tale of love, loss, millet wine and whales that walks a fine line between sci-fi and magical realism.

The Hadera desalination plant is one of five built in Israel after a severe drought in the 1990s. Along with conservation efforts and water recycling, the plants have helped end Israel's chronic water shortages.

Israel Bringing Its Years Of Desalination Experience To California

After decades of work, Israel now gets about a quarter of its water from the sea. But experts say desalination is not a magic bullet, and conservation and infrastructure fixes are also needed.

President Vladimir Putin speaks in Moscow on Dec. 23. Russia's current economic crisis is a result of Western sanctions and diving oil prices.

Sanctions Intensify Russia's Free Fall Into Economic Crisis

The Russian economy took a big hit in 2014. The U.S. and other countries imposed economic sanctions after Russia annexed Crimea, but it was falling oil prices that really hurt the country.

Republican political operative Tyler Harber admitted in federal court to illegally coordinating between a campaign and superPAC. He was sentenced to two years in prison and two years' probation.

Crossing The Line: Political Operative Gets 2 Years In Prison

For the first time ever, a political operative got prison time for illegally coordinating between a superPAC and a campaign. It could have implications for the 2016 presidential race.

Benjamin Rush, a physician and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, invented the rotational chair as a treatment for psychotic patients. He believed the chair helped improve circulation to the mentally ill brain.

From Freud To Possession, A Doctor Faces Psychiatry's Demons

In Shrinks, Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman looks at the development of what he himself calls the most distrusted, feared and denigrated of all medical specialties.

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