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Two of the most advanced maritime surveillance aircraft — Australian P-3 Orions and U.S. P-8A Poseidons — are scouring a stretch of the Indian Ocean for signs of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet.

Some plants will release their pollen only to bees that buzz in just the right way. It's a risky strategy — and it's critical to human agriculture, from tomatoes to blueberries.

Rep. Scott Garrett said he would withhold his dues to the National Republican Congressional Committee unless the party stopped supporting gay candidates. Those comments have hurt him.

At the end of election week, NPR's Tom Goldman joins Scott Simon to reflect on a year in which politics seeped into every aspect of America life, including sports.

Relief supplies are reaching the quake zone, but slowly. Health care workers are exhausted, some at their jobs 24 hours a day as Haiti struggles to care for those affected by the 7.2 magnitude quake.

President Biden said on Sunday that the U.S. has evacuated nearly 28,000 people from Afghanistan since Aug. 14. But he said there is "no way to evacuate this many people without pain and loss."

"You are going to the opening ceremony," Australian Olympics chief John Coates told Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. "None of you are staying behind and hiding in your rooms."

Slushy machines, salt tablets, cooling jackets: The Tokyo Games have already proved to be a hot and humid affair, and experts say the role of climate change can't be overlooked.

Formula E is an all-electric auto race — like Formula 1, but battery-powered. And some of the innovation seen on the race track could eventually make it to your driveway.

The risk calculus for companies whose leaders participate in perilous activities is more complicated today, as corporate titans Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos have completed their travels to space.