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What Is Life Like For Iranian Youth?

The BBC's Jiyar Gol traveled to the city of Erbil in Iraq to meet some Iranian youths who agreed to speak openly about their lives.

Courtney Martin jogs through the snow with her dog, Theodore, in St. Louis. Missourians and their pets muddled through another frigid day Tuesday.

Cold Weather Tips To Keep Your Pets In Good Health

Keep the dog away when you're shoveling snow. Some can't resist jumping toward the flying flakes, and a dog is no match for a shovel blade. The sweet taste of antifreeze can be enticing for pets, but ethylene glycol, the main antifreeze, is also quite toxic. Clean up spills and drips.

Before the surgeon general's 1964 report, people didn't know about the dangers of smoking, as this 1949 Embassy cigarette ad reveals.

50 Years After Landmark Warning, 8 Million Fewer Smoking Deaths

Back in 1964, people smoked cigarettes at work, in restaurants and in grocery stores. Few would have predicted that a report from the U.S. surgeon general would spark a public health revolution that has increased life expectancy in this country by 30 percent.

Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson travel by train in original artwork from <em>Strand</em> magazine. A federal judge in Chicago recently ruled that the characters in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories — excluding any elements introduced in the last 10 stories released in the U.S. after 1922 — now reside in the public domain.

Sherlock's Expiring Copyright: It's Public Domain, Dear Watson

The famous sleuth has discovered that U.S copyright law is anything but elementary. A federal judge recently ruled that elements of the Sherlock Holmes characters are now both licensed property of the Doyle estate and in the public domain. The Doyle estate plans to appeal the decision.

Sadie Bjornsen in the 2013 Nordic World Championships at Val di Fiemme, Italy. She is on the U.S. Olympic team.

Skiing Siblings Hope To Make It To Sochi, Together

Four years ago, cross-country skiers Erik and Sadie Bjornsen tried to make the Olympic team but came up short. This year, one has earned a spot; the other is waiting to find out.

Remote Control: It Was Hard To Turn Off The TV In 2013

Picking a Top 10 list of best TV shows was treacherous work for critics this year. Nevertheless, NPR's TV critic Eric Deggans did it just for you.

In 2013, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Earth from Saturn. Seen here, our planet is 898 million miles away (1.44 billion kilometers) and appears as a blue dot at center right.

Take Four Minutes To Reflect On Your Place In The Cosmos

This New Year, stop to consider the point of it all with this beautiful animation of Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" meditation on Earth's place in the cosmos.

The University of North Dakota conducts research and even grants degrees in unmanned aircraft systems. North Dakota is also one of six states that the FAA approved to build test sites for commercial drones. (University of North Dakota)

FAA Approves Six States To Test Drones

The Federal Aviation Administration says six states will be allowed to develop test sites for drones, as it seeks to safely introduce commercial drones into U.S. airspace.

Boy Scouts of America national headquarters in Irving, Texas. (Bruce Anderson via Wikimedia Commons)

Boy Scouts Begin To Admit Openly Gay Scouts

Tomorrow, the Boy Scouts of America will start admitting openly gay scouts. The Scouting National Council passed a measure in May to allow gay youth to participate.

Holly Brooks competes in the 2012 Cross-Country World Cup tour in Sweden. If she makes it to Sochi, it would be her second Olympics.

31-Year-Old Hopes To Ski Past Her (Younger) Competitors

Holly Brooks made the switch from coach to world-class athlete in 2009, after an epiphany on a hospital gurney. Now she's hoping to compete in the Winter Olympics for a second time. She says she has something many of her younger competitors lack: perspective.

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