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Sir Ken Robinson makes a case for creating an education system that nurtures — rather than stifles — creativity.

What happens in the brain during musical improv? Researcher Charles Limb scanned the brains of jazz musicians to find out.

Brazil has surpassed the U.S. as the world capital of plastic surgery. All this cosmetic enhancement is widely embraced in a country where women flaunt, rather than hide, having work done.

Same-sex couples are getting married in Utah and other states one day after the Supreme Court let stand rulings that overturned bans on gay marriage. But couples have been turned away in Kansas.

The time has never been better to invest in LED lighting, with the price of LED bulbs — which use the Nobel-winning blue LEDs — now below $10 each.

Similar measures calling for labeling genetically modified foods have failed in recent years in California and Washington, and Vermont is being sued for the labeling law it enacted earlier this year.

As The CW's new superhero series The Flash debuts tonight, NPR TV critic Eric Deggans notes the best new broadcast dramas of the fall season are based on comic book stories.

Senate incumbent Lamar Alexander faces lawyer and Democrat Gordon Ball.

Robert Siegel talks to Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about CDC efforts to slow the virus' spread and the likelihood of more domestic Ebola cases.

When Smith’s Union corps arrived at Petersburg, Confederate General Beauregard had only three thousand troops defending the city. To attack Petersburg,…