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What really happens on the set of a reality TV show? Two contestants from Kansas City and a former production assistant spill the details — and discuss…

A teenage girl with dark, medium-length hair smiles into the camera

Blue Valley High School student wins international science contest: 'I'll remember this forever'

Noor Haideri, a 16-year-old high school junior from Overland Park, won first prize and a $250,000 college scholarship from the Breakthrough Junior Challenge, for a science video she created about blue light and how it disrupts our sleep cycle.

Two young boys stand next to each other on a river rock garden path. The boy on the left is wearing a Hawaiian shirt, black jeans and white sneakers, while Sir Antonio Brown, the boy on the right, wears a T-shirt with a shark on it, jeans and coral-colored sneakers.

Family says 6-year-old boy fatally shot in Kansas City, Kansas, was a ‘protector’

Sir'Antonio Brown, just six years old, was shot and killed Wednesday night in Kansas City, Kansas. Gun violence has surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for American children, according to a December report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Want the perfect pie crust? Christopher Kimball from <em>America's Test Kitchen</em> says the secret is to substitute half of the recipe's water with vodka, for a dry, flaky crust.

Tried And True Tricks From 'America's Test Kitchen'

From perfect pie crusts to poached salmon, Christopher Kimball and Bridget Lancaster share cooking tips and secret shortcuts from America's Test Kitchen.The biggest challenge is getting home chefs to faithfully follow recipes, Kimball says: "They will substitute ingredients with great abandon."

Pakistan Says It Shot Down Indian Jets

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to Stimson Center South Asia Director Sameer Lalwani about the escalating conflict between Pakistan and India after Pakistan said it shot down two Indian fighter jets.

An image provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows sulfur dioxide plumes rising from Kilauea's fissures along the rift and accumulating in the cloud deck, viewed from a Hawaiian Volcano Observatory overflight on Wednesday.

Ash Cloud And 'Ballistic Blocks' Shot From Kilauea's Crater, USGS Says

Volcanic rocks 2 feet in diameter have been found in a parking lot a few hundred yards from the volcano's Halemaumau crater, the U.S. Geological Survey reports.

Maurizio Cattelan's <em>America </em>goes on display Friday at the Guggenheim in New York. The artist says it is "one-percent art for the ninety-nine percent."

Behold The Throne: There's A Golden Toilet At The Guggenheim

Museum-goers, prepare for "unprecedented intimacy with a work of art." Starting Friday, visitors will be able to use Maurizio Cattelan's America, a gold-cast, working toilet at the New York museum.

Steam rises from the volcano on New Zealand's White Island on Tuesday, one day after an eruption there left at least six people dead, more than 30 injured and still others missing. Questions linger about why so many people were allowed so close to the active volcano.

Tough Questions 'Must Be Answered' After New Zealand's Deadly Volcano Eruption

At least six people are dead and others badly injured or missing, after an event Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called "devastating." Now, some are wondering why tourists were there in the first place.

Kelvin Cooperage, owned by brothers Kevin and Paul McLaughlin, is making white oak barrels for the newly-rising craft distillers. Here, oak scraps are burned inside the finished barrels to char them.

As Bourbon Booms, Demand For Barrels Is Overflowing

Distillers must age bourbon in new white oak barrels that are charred inside. But the barrel supply is running low, and new, small craft distillers are having trouble getting any barrels at all.

Russia's unmanned Progress space freighter, headed for the International Space Station, blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Oct. 30, 2011. A string of mission failures has raised concerns over the reliability of Russia's space program.

For Russia's Troubled Space Program, Mishaps Mount

Russia was once the world leader in space exploration, but its space program has had a costly and embarrassing string of mission failures since December 2010, including the loss of a $163 million Mars probe. Critics say the program is ill-funded and mismanaged.

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