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U.S. law enforcement has introduced robots to help protect local communities from improvised explosives. In San Diego County, the sheriff’s department uses the new device to disarm bombs and protect

Mailuu-Suu, Kyrgyzstan, was once an elite Soviet industrial town, where uranium was mined and processed. The mining came to a stop in the 1960s. The radioactive waste remains, and little has been done to protect the town's more than 20,000 residents.

Tuesday’s primary election will pit incumbent San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders against well-heeled businessman Steve Francis. With three other candidates in the race, there’s a good chance neither fron

Following a lengthy debate on science and life, the House passes a ban on all human cloning. The measure covers clones created for medical research, and envisions stiff fines and prison sentences for violators. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports.

Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.

Australians Robin Warren and Barry Marshall receive the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Their research bucked conventional wisdom, showing that a bacterium, not simply excess stomach acid, causes peptic ulcers. Also, it suggested that bacterium may be a major cause of stomach cancer.

Type 2 diabetes is no longer a disease of old age. Increasingly, the disease is hitting people in the prime of life. But research shows that for some people, diet and exercise can be just as effective as drugs in preventing the disease.

A group of Afghans are moving back to their homeland from Iran. The Shiite group is creating a settlement near Herat, where the population is mostly Sunni. Many see the move as trouble, and as a conspiracy created by Iran.

A heap of debris taken from a quarry in Mexico has yielded a stone block inscribed with what appears to be the oldest writing ever found in the Americas. Experts say symbols are nearly 3,000 years old and was created by the Olmec civilization. At left, a recreation of the symbols.

Over the weekend, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw paid a surprise visit to Baghdad, where they urged Iraq's political leaders to form a government. Sunday, Jill Carroll flew home to her family in Boston, left, after three months of captivity in Iraq.