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On our show today, we visit with John M. Henshaw, the Harry H. Rogers Professor of Mechanical Engineering and chair of the Department of Engineering here…

An email received from This American Life producer Ira Glass.I’m writing to tell you that tonight, This American Life and Marketplace will reveal that a…

The latest film from the Dardenne brothers won the Grand Jury Prize at the last Cannes International Film Festival, where they also won the top prize in 2005 for The Child. The Dardennes have won dozens of international awards — both for the unexpected stories they tell and the way they tell them.

Samira Ibrahim, the face of the protests, said women in Egypt are under attack.

If you are the least interested in teaching, teachers, or the graphic arts design process, you won't want to miss this innovative new iBook from the…

Police in San Diego say Jason Russell was found masturbating in public.

Redistricting is forcing a handful of congressional incumbents of the same party to run against each other in primaries. Next Tuesday, two Illinois Republicans square off in a battle of experience versus relative youth, Tea Party versus GOP establishment, and conservative versus conservative.

Pentagon officials say Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is the soldier suspected of killing 16 Afghan civilians on Sunday. He was being flown Friday from Kuwait to a military detention center at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. NPR's Tom Bowman talks to Melissa Block about Bales.

The U.S. soldier alleged to have killed 16 Afghan civilians in a nighttime rampage has been identified as Staff Sgt. Robert Bales of Lake Tapps, Wash. His former platoon leader and neighbors in his rural community are bewildered; one neighbor describes him as "just one of the guys."

The Palestinian territory is in the midst of a construction boom, more than three years after a major Israeli assault that left much of the territory in ruins. Since building materials haven't been allowed in legally since 2007, items like cement have been smuggled in through tunnels from Egypt.