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The DIY/maker movement is creating formal opportunities for kids who like to make things with their hands.

Over the past 20 years, there’s been a revolution in the science of arson investigations. Many of the clues that had been used for decades to determine that a fire was not accidental, especially the analysis of burn patterns on walls and floors, have been proven to be false. Reporter Michael May looks closely at two deadly fires to explore the cutting edge of fire science—including how a new under...

Tim Chartier has found a way to fuse his two great loves: math and mime. (It's a fusion that's almost as unlikely as wanting to do a radio story about it.) He and his wife strive to have their audiences become a part of the world that they're creating on stage, and in so doing, the math becomes at once understandable and unforgettable.

Meet Harvey Washington Wiley, the mastermind behind this experiment where young government employees were fed poison-laced foods months on end. He's also the founding father of the Food and Drug Administration.

90% of the world's goods are carried by cargo ships. They sail on oceans streaming with wind: High tech wing sails used on America's Cup racing boats may help increase cargo ship fuel efficiency.

Volcanoes fueled by baking soda and vinegar. Carnations dipped in colored water. Those are popular projects at school science fairs, but do they really teach kids anything? Some professional scientists are leading an effort to remake school science fairs. They say that rather than just building models or conducting demonstrations, children as young as eight or ten can develop original science proj...

In recent years, scientists have found that particles like soot and other pollution live a ‘secret life’ once released into the atmosphere, picking up toxic gases and other hitchhikers before making their way into our lungs. What happens to these particles once they’re in the air? And how does it affect our health? Reid Frazier looks at the evolving science into the secret life of particles.

This story explores the ways that blind people can use echolocation to navigate spaces and look at what's around them, and the neurological connections between visual and spatial perception.

From Paolo Pietropaolo's Third Coast Festival session. Produced by Roman Mars.

Meet a FEMEN protester in Ukraine. Then, visit the weird Joseph Stalin Museum in Georgia. This is part 3 of the hour-long special Generation Putin , an in-depth look at the millennial generation in the post-Soviet states. ------- It's been over 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Young people in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Georgia are facing unemployment, democratic pressure, and...

Cultural liberalization in Kazakhstan: One of the first above-ground gay bars in Central Asia and an postcard from DIY zombie music festival. And, armed with a letter from 1990, producer Jessica Partnow goes in search of her childhood Soviet pen pal in Ukraine. This is part 2 of the hour-long special Generation Putin , an in-depth look at the millennial generation in the post-Soviet states. ------...

This is part 1 of the hour-long special Generation Putin , an in-depth look at the millennial generation in the post-Soviet states. ------ It's been over 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Young people in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Georgia are facing unemployment, democratic pressure, and the legacy of repression, while being influenced by the West, punk music, and the Pussy Ri...