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A summer program at Rice University aims to get more women working in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM for short.

Officials in Idaho put 419.9 on those green highway signs because their 420 mile posts keep getting stolen. For some reason, 420 is identified with pot enthusiasts but no one knows why.

As the flight pushed away from the gate without him, the man went through an exit door and onto the tarmac. He told police he was trying to make it to his high school reunion in Ohio.

People in the Spanish city of Bilbao have a mission: to cut down on food waste. Now, to prevent food from going directly into the garbage, residents just send it to the Solidarity Fridge.

Thousands of Koreans are giving up the urban grind for a more bucolic lifestyle, including a couple that started a larva farm. (This piece first aired on Aug. 3, 2015 onAll Things Considered.)

The Obama administration has directed $13.4 million to regional drug control agencies known as High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA).

The president has called for natural gas to serve as a "bridge fuel" to renewable energies, but there are concerns that the country would settle before transitioning to renewable sources.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, 85, shared on Facebook the declaration form he filled after after Apollo 11 returned from the moon in 1969. He brought back Moon rocks and Moon dust.

A two year old in Louisiana perks up whenever Morris Bart's commercials come on TV. So his parents threw him a Morris Bart birthday party — complete with Bart's face on a cake and a T-shirt.

Though 12,000 people have been forced from their homes or advised to leave, firefighters say they have made progress controlling a wildfire threatening thousands of homes in Northern California.