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Researchers are developing technology to control the movement of cockroaches. Strapped with electrodes and sensors, these insects we often loathe could be used for disaster relief or surveillance.

In his new memoir, Frank describes how early in politics he feared people would "draw inferences" if he supported gay rights. But his drive to fight discrimination was stronger.

A transportation group wants to restore Amtrak train service from Orlando to New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina devastated rail service along the Gulf Coast a decade ago. As 90.7’s Renata Sago reports, a bipartisan commission wants Congress to fund a study on bringing the train service back.

Across the Atlantic coast communities from Florida to New Jersey are speaking out against oil and natural gas exploration off their shores.They're concerned about seismic testing. For the first time in 30 years the Obama administration says it will consider the testing in the Atlantic Ocean.That's prompting leaders from beachy communities to Congress to voice alarm.

In their new book, terrorism experts Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger say that the "projection of strength" has led to the rapid expansion of the self-declared Islamic State.

Amid the obstructionism and violence of Afghanistan, Aziz Royesh has set up a school in Kabul that has won worldwide acclaim.

In a "window moment," the poet says, a work shifts and expands: "By glancing for a moment at something else, the field of the poem becomes larger. What's in the room with the poem is bigger."

Before Beulah Annan or Leopold and Loeb, another murder became a Chicago sensation. Scott Simon speaks with Gillian O'Brien, author of Blood Runs Green: The Murder that Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago.

In Shrinks, Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman looks at the development of what he himself calls the most distrusted, feared and denigrated of all medical specialties.

Once family-owned, luxury fashion houses have been gobbled by conglomerates. Industry watchers say designers have suffered from a pressure-cooker environment that focuses intensely on the bottom line.