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Solar panels cover cars parked in a lot nearby Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta. The city aims to rely largely on renewable energy by 2035.

Cities Are Making Big Climate Promises. Keeping Them Can Be Tough

Dozens of cities have ambitious plans to get their electricity from clean or renewable sources. But those goals can clash with power providers, whose priority remains economics, not climate change.

Facebook says 30 million users were affected by a recent security breach, including 400,000 whose accounts were nearly fully accessed and another 14 million who had broad categories of personal data stolen.

Facebook Says 14 Million Accounts Had Broad Array Of Personal Data Stolen

In an update on a recent security breach, Facebook says 30 million accounts were affected. For nearly half of those, hackers accessed users' searches, locations and other details.

Primatologist And Author: Morality Wasn't Invented By Religion

Primatologist and author Frans de Waal, Ph.D., says several species of mammals exhibit cooperative, even empathetic behavior, which is one of the hallmarks of morality. De Waal is speaking at SDSU Tuesday.

Some patients have started to seek out an oral treatment for food allergies that's not yet widely offered by clinicians.

A New Treatment Can Relieve Food Allergies, But Few Doctors Offer It

Many parents of kids with life-threatening food allergies live with fear, EpiPen in hand. Some are trying oral immunotherapy, a treatment that can help patients build tolerance to foods like peanuts.

A study found that parachutes were no more effective than empty backpacks at protecting jumpers from aircraft. There was just one catch.

Researchers Show Parachutes Don't Work, But There's A Catch

A study found parachutes were no more effective than backpacks in preventing harm to people jumping from aircraft. The researchers' tongue-in-cheek experiment makes a deeper point about science.

Spaghetti westerns loved the landscape of the human face, here Lee Van Cleef stars as a lawman tracking a Mexican peasant in Sergio Sollima's "The Big Gundown."

'The Big Gundown' Kicks Off Spaghetti Western Film Series

First film in They Call Me Sergio program screens May 24 at Digital Gym Cinema

Activists say they are bringing replicas of the Trump baby blimp stateside.

American Baby Trump Blimp Set To Breeze Onto Namesake's Home Turf

Activists aimed to bring one balloon to the president's backyard; they overshot their fundraising goal and now say they will create more than one replica.

"I like to accept the way people present themselves," photographer Inge Morath said in a 1987 NPR interview. "You never know what you get. It's fascinating ... that's why I like to do portraits." Morath, pictured above in Paris in 1964, is the subject of a new biography by Linda Gordon called <em>Inge Morath: Magnum Legacy,</em> published by Prestel and Magnum Foundation<em>.</em>

Biography Captures The Charisma And Confidence Of Photographer Inge Morath

Biographer Linda Gordon chronicles Morath's escape from Nazi Germany, her boundary-breaking career and her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller.

Mary Lou Wesselhoeft is a dairy farmer in the Florida Panhandle. Her Ocheesee Creamery pasteurized skim milk has nothing added — and that's the problem. According to regulations, without added vitamins, it can only be sold as "imitation skim milk."

All-Natural But Still 'Imitation'? The Strange Case Of The Skim Milk Label

A Florida dairy farmer has had to dump hundreds of gallons of skim milk from her creamery because she doesn't add vitamins back in. Legally, that makes it an "imitation milk product."

Apu is a supporting character on The Simpsons drawn in broad caricature, and Sunday's episode addressed — sort of — criticisms about the portrayal.

'The Simpsons' To 'The Problem With Apu': Drop Dead

The Simpsons addressed complaints about its caricature of an Indian convenience store owner by making clear that it ... doesn't really care.

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