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Two tribes in Namibia played with computers and looked at maps. The results of these tests shed light on why guys who are expert navigators might father more children than men who get lost.

John Byrne Cooke was Janis Joplin's road manager from 1967 until her untimely death in 1970. So he saw a lot of rock history up close — and describes some of the details in a new memoir.

"His historical context, unlike my own, came from a place of ignorance," writes the National Book Award-winning Woodson, responding to racially charged comments delivered after she won her prize.

Slumping oil prices are continuing to have global economic repercussions. At home, that means lower gas prices, but in other countries more dependent on oil, the effects are serious.

Director Morten Tyldum says he wanted the film, about World War II code breaker Alan Turing, to show "how important it is to actually celebrate those who are different than us instead of fear them."

The best-selling author died Thursday. She was 94. In 1987, James told Terry Gross that while the "shock of finding the bodies is important" in her novels, she personally doesn't like "messy lives."

Sales from Thanksgiving through the weekend are down 11 percent compared to last year, according to preliminary numbers.

Hundreds who worked with U.S. forces say they've been put on a blacklist, trapping them in a country in which they are no longer safe.

Developmental psychologist Larry Steinberg says new brain science is starting to reveal why teenagers seem to stay teenage through their mid-twenties.

Time is running out to save the world’s smallest and most critically-endangered marine mammal. It's estimated there are only 100 left.