Until two days ago, Mason Middle School eighth-grader Meg Reid wanted to get into the medical field when she grows up.

If a robot does damage, who takes the blame?

Daniel Shih is an experienced community organizer, researcher and accomplished violinist. He plans to pursue graduate study in comparative politics when he attends Oxford next fall.

Historical records show that in warmer-than-average years, the number of conflicts rises. The researchers predict that by 2030, Africa could see a greater than 50 percent increase in civil wars.

Campus leaders have announced that a review is underway of the crowd control measures used by police on November 20, when 40 protesters occupied Wheeler Hall.

Earthquakes can reveal much about the makeup of Earth's interior. Earth and planetary science professor Barbara Romanowicz uses the planet's own rumblings to yield spectacular insights into the ground beneath our feet.

over the western Pacific Ocean, roughly 8 degrees north of the Equator. An apparent tower of clouds rises at the storm's center.

The paths of more than a dozen lahars radiate down the flanks of El Salvador's Volcáan San Vicente in all directions following torrential rains in November 2009.

A thick plume of brownish smoke billowed from the Western Australia coast and over the Great Australian Bight on November 19, 2009.

Acquired November 18, 2009, this true-color image shows a broad band of snow stretching across Ontario. Snow appears thickest near James Bay and thinnest north of Lake Superior.

Acquired November 17, 2009, this true-color image shows snow nearly covering the northeastern quadrant of Colorado and stretching into neighboring states.

Intense streaks of blue and green colored the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina on November 15, 2009.

A covering of snow over the North China Plain on November 17, 2009, highlights towns and roads that would otherwise blend in to the landscape.

NASA is all "a-Twitter" about its tropical cyclone research.

A new image from AIRS shows the transport of carbon dioxide across the globe.

Impressive movie special effects aside, Dec. 21, 2012, won't be the end of the world we know.

Thanks to NASA's GOES Project, individuals can now access real-time satellite data from the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

Ida, the third hurricane of the 2009 Atlantic season and now a tropical storm, churns through the Gulf of Mexico in a pair of NASA satellite images taken Monday, Nov. 9.

The latest image from the U.S./French Jason-2 satellite finds a strong wave of warm water heading toward the Americas, fueling El Niño.