NPR photojournalist David Gilkey, whose images documented both tragedy and hope, was killed in Afghanistan last Sunday, along with NPR's Afghan interpreter Zabihullah Tamanna. We pulled together a monument to David's work, one remarkable image at a time.
In the '80s, there were more than 3 million cases of Guinea worm disease a year. So far this year, the world tally stands at just two. This horrible worm, nicknamed "fiery serpent," could soon be going the way of smallpox — into oblivion.
A few alarming phone calls prompted Harvard researcher Kit Parker, also an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve, to turn his focus from the heart to the brain. What came next was a remarkable insight into the ways blast waves can affect brain cells.
Judge Aaron Persky is under fire for sentencing Brock Turner, convicted of raping an unconscious woman, to just six months. "It's really an outrage," says the law professor leading the recall effort against Persky.
Sorry to say, but those "terrible twos" aren't the roughest it'll get — at least, according to new research. Psychologist Tania Lombrozo explains why mothers with middle-school children appear to be the most dissatisfied with parenting.
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