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Against the backdrop of the 12th anniversary of 9/11, we look back at the lessons learned as the U.S. faces action in another Middle Eastern country.

With plenty of election ennui going around, NPR Books dug into the archives for new ways to look at the election storyline, including an idea of what happens when a campaign gets a dose of sci fi, fantasy and puberty, respectively.

The latest project from Google X is a smart contact lens, a tiny flexible computer capable of monitoring glucose levels in tears. Researchers at Google are hopeful that one day this technology might be used to help diabetes patients better control their disease.

For those who viewed the end of the Soviet Union as a tragedy, Crimea was a chance to showcase Russia's strength. Now Russia may have changed its relationship with the outside world for years to come.

A Somalia refugee who is a student at Mesa College, won a prestigious national science award for cancer research.

Itch can be a useful warning sign, or a maddening symptom with no cure. But the origins of itch have long been a mystery. Scientists think they've come closer to understanding the origins of itch in a molecule that makes mice scratch like mad.

This has not been an easy month for Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

For an extra layer of online protection, author P.W. Singer advises making your security answers something counterintuitive, like pizza.

The Lyrid shower is caused by Earth passing through the orbit of a comet known as Thatcher. The best time to watch should be in the early hours of Monday morning, just before dawn.

Local physicists from UCSD were involved in the discovery of a new subatomic particle called the Higgs Boson, or "the God particle," the finding of which was just announced in Geneva, Switzerland.