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Russian personnel are the first to meet space station crew members when they return to earth.

NASA Suspends Some Ties With Russia Over Ukraine Crisis

The two sides will continue to work together, however, in the operation of the International Space Station.

Machinists Union President Buffenbarger On Boeing, Reformers’ Challenge

Editor's Note: Tom Buffenbarger has held the top job of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers since 1997. He’s been in the…

'Empathy Exams' Is A Virtuosic Manifesto Of Human Pain

Leslie Jamison's new book of essays, The Empathy Exams, combines the intellectual and the emotional to explore the humanizing effect of empathy. Heller McAlpin calls it a "soaring performance."

A Twitter app on an iPhone screen. Turkey banned the social media service for two weeks, but a court has now ordered the ban lifted on constitutional grounds.

Court In Turkey Orders Twitter Service Restored

The social media site was blocked in the runup to last Sunday's local elections, but the ban was deemed a breach of free expression and ordered reversed.

Was playing a much-maligned instrument — or writing about it beautifully — part of Kwasi Enin's secret? (Not that he is playing the 'Archinto' Stradivarius pictured here.)

How Do You Sweep The Ivy League? Practice — The Viola. (Really.)

He has all kinds of other things going for him, but star student Kwasi Enin wrote in his college essay that music is the core of his happiness. Maybe that's why all eight Ivy League schools want him.

Good Day Sunshine: Could Morning Light Help Keep Us Lean?

People who are exposed to light earlier in the day are slimmer, a study finds. That doesn't mean morning sunshine helps people lose weight. But it matches other evidence on light and health.

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