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Summer vacations often take time, energy and money to plan. Expectations can run unreasonably high. This week, we dive into what social science research says about how to have a better getaway.

For the past eight days, Fedor Konyukhov has had a tiny amount of sleep in an open gondola hurtling at high speeds through below-freezing air that is too thin to breathe. And he has four more to go.

Hospitals in Nice, France are full of grieving and angry families following the Bastille Day attack. But residents are lining up to give blood and filling flower shops.

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Joshua Hendrick, professor of sociology at Loyola University and author of the book Gulen: The Ambiguous Politics of Market Islam in Turkey and the World, about Fethullah Gulen and the Hizmet movement in Turkey.

A study found that behavioral problems were more common among children of women who took the pain reliever during pregnancy. But interpreting the results isn't as straightforward as you might expect.

Residents of Shishmaref, Alaska, voted this week to relocate their village to escape rising sea levels. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Esau Sinnok, a Sishmaref native and an Arctic Youth ambassador, about the decision to move.

The Newlead Castellano was stopped near Savannah over unpaid debts — stranding the Filipino crew members, who didn't have permission to enter the U.S. Their months of waiting may soon be at an end.

Donald Trump laid out his economic policies during a speech in Detroit Monday.

Team USA track and field athlete Morolake Akinosun, 22, is at the Olympics in Rio. She shares the songs that get her pumped to compete.

There are 205 countries competing in Rio, many for decades, and most of them can't match Phelps' total of 23 golds.