The Hirshhorn contemporary art museum had proposed an ambitious plan for a giant, inflatable addition. But the Board of Trustees couldn't agree on whether to continue fundraising to build the bubble, so the museum's director 鈥� the project's biggest supporter 鈥� will resign.

Artist Brendan O'Connell's paintings find beauty and "transcendence" in a cathedral of American consumerism.

Science writer Carl Zimmer says we're not going to bring back dinosaurs. But we might be able to resurrect other extinct species.

Baxter can work alongside humans to do simple, repetitive tasks. Some analysts fear such automation will kill jobs but Baxter's inventor says such robots could keep the U.S. competitive.

In Silicon Valley and around the world there are thousands of folks toiling away on new technologies, convinced that the thing they are building will transform the way we live. NPR's Steve Henn introduces us to five techies whose research and work he'll be keeping a close eye on in the coming year.

Being happy is a universal human yearning, but this simple goal often eludes us. If we're truly able to attain happiness, then how do we find it? Three鈥�

For the past 25 years, Chip Kidd has made a name for himself as a top book designer. His designs have helped transform books into visual icons. But in the brave new world of e-books, where covers are often shrunk to thumbnail sketches on a screen, will beautifully designed covers become a dying art?

There were robots everywhere at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington this past weekend. Robots shot baskets. There was a wheeled R2-D2 robot at the CIA's booth. And then there were surgical robots that let future doctors 鈥� and patients 鈥� try their hand at tasks requiring pinpoint accuracy.

A one-day conference centered on the theme of 鈥済rowing greener generations鈥� kicks off in Fort Collins later today.The event is an extension of TED, a鈥�

TEDMED has rolled into the nation's capital, and the conference is drawing hip health care geeks from around the world. Cookie Monster came, too.