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The destructive tornado killed at least 26 people, leveled buildings and left thousands of customers without power.

The destructive tornado killed at least 26 people, leveled buildings and left thousands of customers without power.

F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald wed in 1920, and the two went on to have a famously turbulent literary marriage. Would Zelda have been better off without her husband? Novelist Therese Anne Fowler says, "They were two sides of one coin."

Author Adam Brent Houghtaling has put together an encyclopedia of the best music to pair with melancholy moments.

Smart, scintillating reads are hard to find — especially when you like your protagonists nerdy. Author Lev Grossman offers three great reads for the geeks in all of us.

Photographer Evan Russel and fine artist James McGrew set out to capture an elusive natural phenomenon. But as they discovered, nature can be fickle.

Kim and Gretchen Granbery, with Leetes Island Oysters, recently braved the winter cold to harvest oysters off the coast of Connecticut.

Two American biologists have won this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a crucial way genes are regulated.

The documents in the Pentagon Papers told how U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was built up steadily by political leaders and top military brass who were overconfident about U.S. prospects.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Nolan Gasser, chief musicologist and architect of Pandora Radio's Music Genome Project about his book Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste.