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The Velvet Underground and Nico changed music history — and Mark Satlof has over 800 copies of its original pressing.

Over 10 years ago, the writer Wills Glasspiegel heard an album by Ahmed Janka Nabay at random, beginning a friendship that changed both their lives and helped to spread an electrifying form of music.

It's called noma and is a disease of poverty, striking mainly children. Most patients die. Survivors are badly disfigured. Now there's a campaign to add it to the list of neglected tropical diseases

Muslim youths in Denmark were leaving to join ISIS in Syria, feeling they were being persecuted in Europe. Then the police in Aarhus responded in a completely unexpected way: They apologized.

There's a disconnect between what we're told to eat and what crops the U.S. subsidizes. Many critics blame farm policy for promoting bad eating habits. The reality is a lot more complicated.

Uncovering the layers of weirdness in the many fights over the ways music was employed as theater during this week's Republican national convention.

NPR science and education reporters answer questions submitted by listeners about the coming school year.

Words of wisdom, and hope, from speeches given by seniors this year at their high school graduation ceremonies.

In neighborhoods with limited access to healthy foods, school gardens can help close the gap — for students and the wider community. Some schools are now expanding the season by growing indoors.

Across tea-drinking cultures, writers have milked hot tea for all its worth to add a splash of narrative panache to comic or erotic scenes or to build mood, momentum and character.