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For years, scientists have dreamt of making robots that can self-reproduce. Someday, such a machine could be sent to explore a distant planet, where it could clone itself. Now, researchers say they've come up with primitive robots that can self-replicate.

Singer-songwriter Amos Lee grew up around Philadelphia, but the former teacher and bartender's music sounds more like he came from a background of porch swings and wide-open spaces.

A new generation of huge telescopes has helped astronomers discover distant planets and galaxies. But they're just the start. Mirrors for what is to be the world's largest telescope are being cast in Arizona.

In his new novel, Engleby, Sebastian Faulks keeps readers off balance as he traces the life of Mike Engleby, a cold, detached man who is suspected of an unsolved murder. Eventually the crime comes back to haunt him, and repressed memories bubble to the surface.

The sunny singer-songwriter behind "I'm Yours" tells NPR's Guy Raz how he turned his own heartbreak into a record full of "peace, positivity, hope, happiness and celebration."

No historical fakery: Here's the real music of the Elizabethan era.

The U.S. Justice Department alleges that Rodney Vicknair committed a civil rights violation when he sexually assaulted a victim in 2020.

New legislation on the treatment of terrorism suspects is designed to limit hundreds of petitions from Guantanamo detainees that have flooded federal courts, according to John Yoo, who helped formulate the Bush administration's enemy-combatant policies.

In his new book, In Afghanistan: Two Hundred Years of British, Russian and American Occupation, David Loyn explores how the country's rugged terrain and rough politics have confounded foreign occupiers.

The "Strong-Arm" stood more than 40 feet high and had 34 arms. It lived an estimated 150 years. And this week, it died.