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The newest movie installment of the Superman franchise opens this week, but some Superman mysteries remain unanswered. Physics professor James Kakalios explains the physics behind the superhero's famous powers.

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) announces that he will seek treatment at a rehabilitation center for addiction to prescription drugs. Kennedy, who ran his car into a barrier near the Capitol early Thursday morning, admits that he took the popular sleeping drug Ambien. No one was injured in the incident.

The federal government reports that far more underwater pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico were damaged by hurricanes last year than they realized. Weather and the pressure to find divers and oil-rig workers have overtaxed available resources.

One observer of the security situation in Iraq says that the U.S. response to Iraq's growing violence is failing to quell the trouble.

A correction published today on the New England Journal of Medicine's Web site undermines a key feature of Merck's defense against the thousands of lawsuits filed over its painkiller Vioxx.

Ryan Adams, 16, is a finalist in next week's Kids Philosophy Slam in Washington, D.C. This year, the young philosophers debate this question: Which is more powerful, fear or hope? Adams lends Scott Simon his thoughts on the subject.

On Monday, eight months after Hurricane Katrina, the city of New Orleans may give some residents of devastated Ninth Ward the go-ahead to return to their homes. The long-awaited decision will depend on the results of water-purity tests. Also Monday, displaced residents can begin casting ballots at satellite polling stations around Louisiana in the run-off mayor election.

The Miami defendants in the alleged terrorist plot are charged with four counts of conspiracy. Conspiracy is one of the most commonly filed charges in terrorism cases, but it makes civil libertarians uneasy.

Kenneth Lay, founder and vilified former chairman of scandal-ridden Enron Corp., died of a heart attack Wednesday morning. He was 64.

Despite the box office success of Pirates of the Caribbean, and last year's Chronicles of Narnia, Walt Disney Studios is cutting back on its production schedule, and staffing. The company is also planning to return much of its focus to family friendly films.