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Stinging Report On Pandemics Makes Louis Pasteur Look Like A Prophet

The French disease fighter had a healthy fear of microbes. So does a new report, which worries that humankind might not be ready to fight off the next pandemic.

Why Cambodians Never Get 'Depressed'

In many parts of the world, there's no direct translation for terms like depression or anxiety. Cambodians, for example, say "the water in my heart has fallen." So how does a doctor refill a heart?

Daryl James was just 15-years-old when he arrived at the Army Apprentice School in the 1970s. He says he was repeatedly abused, as were many others. Now he returns every year just to confirm that the school is still gone. "The ghosts have gone now, " he told NPR.

In Australia, Decades Of Abuse Against Military Recruits Comes To Light

A commission is investigating complaints by military academy students who say systematic sexual abuse was inflicted on new recruits dating back to the 1970s.

For many black people, hair and race are inextricably interwoven.

Dreadlocks Decision Raises Another Question: What Is Race?

Many experts agree with an appeals court's decision last month that dreadlocks aren't a common racial characteristic. But left undecided: What's a common racial characteristic?

A Syrian boy in a clinic in Aleppo receives an injection for the "Aleppo button" — one of the names used for the welts caused by leishmaniasis.

'The Aleppo Evil' Is Making A Comeback

It's a disfiguring disease spread by the bite of sand flies. And there are fears that the Syrian refugee problem is triggering a dramatic increase in cases.

Encinitas students demonstrate yoga poses, April 2014.

Yoga Breathing New Life Into Fitness Classes In San Diego And New York

A yoga-based health and wellness program that was piloted in Encinitas schools — and drew protests from some parents — is being adopted now by other schools in California and New York.

High Desert State Prison in Susanville, Calif.

State Report Finds Pattern Of Abuse At A Northern California Prison

A new study finds a pattern of guards abusing inmates at remote High Desert State Prison. That includes a "culture of racism" and mistreating inmates with disabilities.

Students at Northeast Elementary Magnet, in Danville, Ill., play around. Fewer than 1 in 5 parents polled said their kids were getting physical education daily.

To Get Kids Exercising, Schools Are Becoming Creative

Avery Stackhouse, age 7, of Lafayette, Calif., says he wishes he had more time for phys ed.

Levison Wood walked 1,700 miles, from Afghanistan to Bhutan, along the Himalayan Mountain range. He says that seeing Everest, the highest mountain in the world, was "just magical."

Adventurer Says 'Walking The Himalayas' Wasn't About 'Sticking Flags In Peaks'

Levison Wood, who previously walked the length of the Nile River, has now trekked 1,700 miles, from Afghanistan to Bhutan, along the Himalayan mountain range.

In a recently surfaced recording of a 1939 radio interview, James Naismith, describes how he invented basketball in 1891.

In His Own Words: How A Gym Teacher Invented Basketball In 1891

In what may be the only recording of his voice, James Naismith describes how he created basketball to occupy his stir-crazy students during a snowy winter in New England.

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