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Astronauts are giving the middle-aged space telescope an overhaul, rejuvenating its power source and sharpening its vision with a new electronic eye. The 12-year-old Hubble has already rewritten science, and astronomers say there's more to come. All Things Considered host Robert Siegel talks with the Space Telescope Science Institute's Bruce Margon.

Film critic John Powers reviews Storytelling, the new Todd Solondz movie.

His book is called Them: Adventures with Extremists. (Simon and Schuster). He traveled around the world interviewing different types of extremistsfrom Islamic fundamentalists in a Jihad training camp, to Ku Klux Klansmen at rallies. Them was first published in the U.K. in the spring of 2001.

By some estimates, more than half the languages spoken in the world today will be gone by the end of the century. For Morning Edition, NPR's Joe Palca reports on one attempt in Alaska to slow the extinction process.

Sledge hockey is one of the roughest events in the Paralympics, the winter games for disabled athletes. Players are strapped into sleds and they propel themselves with sticks. Otherwise, the game is pretty much like ice hockey. NPR's Howard Berkes reports.

In honor of the six-month anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, Meyerowitz talks about his World Trade Center Archive Project, a traveling State Department-sponsored exhibition of Ground Zero photographs. Meyerowitz originally spoke about his World Trade Center photos when he was a guest on Fresh Air on October 23, 2001.

Can America become energy independent? In a series of reports, All Things Considered asks whether increased production, decreased consumption, or a combination of the two can free the nation from dependence on foreign oil in an unstable world. (7:30)

Half a year has passed since jets hijacked by terrorists crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. NPR News reports on Americans' countless steps toward recovery. On Morning Edition, one man's remembrance of the wife he lost in the attack on the Pentagon.

Six months after Sept. 11, National Guard Lt. Victor Rojas is 700 miles from home, guarding a Utah depot that holds weapons for the war in Afghanistan. NPR's Renee Montagne talks to Rojas, his family and his fellow Guard members about how 9/11 has changed their lives.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Sean Campbell of Columbia's Journalism School about his report detailing how Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation bought a $6 million home with donation funds.