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More than 13,070 U.S. troops have been injured in Iraq, with just over half of those injured unable to return to duty. One recovering soldier is 32-year-old Robert Bartlett, an Army scout with the 3rd Infantry Division, whose face and hands were badly injured by a roadside bomb in May.

One hundred years ago today, Albert Einstein finished a scientific paper that would change the world. His radical insight into the nature of light would help transform Einstein from an unknown patent clerk to a giant of 20th-century science.

NASA sends Space Shuttle Discovery into orbit in the first shuttle launch since the Columbia accident, which killed seven astronauts. NASA managers are now analyzing data to ensure the shuttle's heat-resistant surfaces were not damaged during launch.

Gospel great Marion Williams is not a household name, but she inspired many blues and rock singers. Little Richard's signature wail was all Williams. Her wide-ranging voice gave recording engineers fits, her long-time producer says.

Liliya Karimova is a young Tatar woman from Kazan, Russia, currently living in the United States. A graduate student in Kansas, she has been struggling to understand her ethnic and religious background.

One of the larger questions hanging over the presidential election is whether the Bush administration has made the country safer since Sept. 11. NPR's Pam Fessler reports.

Songwriter Chuck Humphries lives in a tree house at the base of one of the world's most active volcanos, Hawaii's Mount Kiluaea. Surrounded by miles of lava, he's one of the last inhabitants in the area and has no plans to leave. Journalist Jake Halpern talks to Humphries in the third of a five-part series based on Halpern's book Braving Home.

Last month, NASA shocked the astronomy world by canceling a repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. That decision all but sealed the observatory's fate to a slow death in orbit. But as NPR's Richard Harris reports, astronomers aren't giving up yet.

As Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry prepares to accept his party's nomination Thursday, Kerry's running mate, Sen. John Edwards, formally becomes the Democrats' entry for vice president.

The publishing world has not had a great track record when it comes to young adult books that include diversity of race, gender and sexuality. But a new fantasy novel for middle-grade readers offers some representation.