Lindsey Feingold

Photographer Adair Rutledge returned to Alabama to learn how the Azalea Trail Maids are redefining what it means to be a symbol of the South — while they wear a 50-pound, custom-made antebellum dress.

Researchers are currently looking for candidates who will stay in bed 24 hours a day, seven days a week for 60 straight days for a study on how the body adapts to weightlessness.

At StoryCorps, Ellen Hughes tells Keith Miller, who also has a son with autism, how much it meant to her when he comforted her son Walker on a difficult visit to the ER last year.

When birds migrate, they can become attracted to and disoriented by artificial lights. The result: they end up colliding with skyscrapers and other buildings.

Several dozen autonomous robots roam the Virginia campus providing options such pizza and coffee. "We were amazed by the volume of orders," Starship Technologies executive Ryan Tuohy says.

Some things get better with age. Just ask the members of the Wizdom, a dance team for the NBA's Washington Wizards who are all 50 years old or older.

HBO created a world-wide scavenger hunt to promote the last season of Game of Thrones.Josefine Wallenå of Sweden drove eight hours in her quest to find the Iron Throne.

Carolyn DeFord, a member of the Puyallup tribe, was 26 when her mother suddenly vanished. At StoryCorps, she remembers what life has been like having never learned what happened.

Edwin Pratt, the then-head of the Seattle Urban League, was assassinated in 1969 at his home. At StoryCorps, his daughter and her godmother remember him and the night he was shot.

The more than 200 artifacts were discovered in a previously sealed cave beneath the ancient Mexican city Chichén Itzá. Explorers had to crawl for hours to reach the archaeological materials.