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A track for vehicles was recently discovered illegally crossing the boundary into Oregon's Eagle Cap Wilderness, despite the Wilderness Act's prohibition against motorized access to such protected areas.

Yuval Noah Harari expects we'll soon engineer our bodies in the same way we design products. "I think in general medicine ... will switch from healing the sick to upgrading the healthy," he says.

Saying "the behavior of these athletes was not acceptable," the U.S. Olympic Committee levies suspensions on Ryan Lochte and three other athletes involved in an ill-fated night out in Rio.

Claims about the size of crowds for both President Trump's inauguration and the protests that followed the day after, are being debated. Scientists struggle with how to do that kind of head count.

NOAA's new weather satellite is carrying the first lightning detector ever parked in orbit over Earth. It has sent back its first images of real-time lightning storms in the Western Hemisphere.

A wildfire along California's Central Coast, south of San Francisco, has destroyed dozens of homes. Hundreds of families have been evacuated. To keep the fire from consuming anymore homes, crews are trying to guide the fire into a national forest.

To put it in terms runners will understand, the price tag is roughly $1 billion for each mile of a marathon. It's a bet on a new kind of connected professional workplace.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Democrat representing Missouri, about the presidential election.

After 71 hours and 8 minutes of flight time crossing the Atlantic, Solar Impulse 2 touched down in Spain. It's a big step toward the goal of circumnavigating the globe using only the sun's power.

An Iraqi special forces commander worries that the battle to force ISIS from the city of Mosul is too dependent on his elite troops.