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With the app Vine users create short video stories, making Internet celebrities out of everyday users. With such a large audience, companies like Virgin Mobile and MTV are paying users to produce ads.

When you're a teenager, there are many things you desperately want to find: friends, fun, a future, freedom. In American Graffiti,the iconic movie about teenagers set in 1962, the kids find all of that just by getting in their cars. But today, teens say they don't see cars the same way.

A gap persists in high school physics. A new study finds that girls are more likely to take physics if they see women in their communities working in science, technology, engineering and math.

Astronaut Sally Ride has served as a role model for young women as the first American woman in space. It's for that reason she's one of the 16 people named as recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Ride will receive the award posthumously — she died last year at the age of 61.

The chief operating officer is a position increasingly filled by women. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook, but Sheryl Sandberg monetized it.

Scientists find the a tantalizing clue about where people may be catching the Middle East respiratory syndrome. Camels on the Arabian Peninsula and Canary Islands show signs that they've been infected with the virus or a close relative.

Swiss banking giant UBS has agreed to pay $120 million to settle a lawsuit by investors. The case goes back to 2007. Investors said they were misled about the health of the financial firm Lehman Brothers when UBS was selling them investments linked to Lehman's debt. Lehman collapsed into bankruptcy in 2008.

Picking berries is hard, sometimes backbreaking work. But consumers rarely consider the physical labor required to deliver them fresh fruits and vegetables. In a new book, a medical anthropologist argues that farmworkers deserve better health care.

With a new moon and dark skies, the best meteor shower of the year should be a good show Sunday and Monday nights if the weather cooperates.

Tiffanie Drayton's mother moved her family to the U-S for a better life. But it wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Now back in her native Trinidad, Drayton tells host Michel Martin what inspired her to share her story in the Salon piece 'Goodbye to my American Dream.' Byline: Michel Martin