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Some Americans on a student exchange program brought pasta home and cooked it in a pot with no water. The pasta went up in flames and the fire department was called.

A rare talent emerging from London's current nexus of jazz, hip-hop, and electronic musicians, the soul singer performs his emotive new track.

Mary Horomanski of Erie, Pa., received a bill of more than $284 billion. The Erie Times News reports that's more than the combined national debts of Hungary and South Africa.

Why Bob Dylan matters. We're joined by Richard F. Thomas, a “Dylanologist” and Harvard professor, to make the case.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is testifying before the House Select Committee. You can watch live here.

The Wisconsin Republican received 236 votes, well above the 218 he needed to become speaker.

The women motorcyclist became trapped under the vehicle in an accident. Passers-by and emergency responders literally took matters into their hands and lifted the car, freeing the woman.

A sculptor and a geologist are melting hundreds of pounds of rock in a giant cauldron to create realistic lava flows. Cool! NPR reporter Adam Cole pays a visit to learn more about lava's allure.

That is one of the questions studied by scientists who received Ig Nobel Prizes at Harvard University, at the ceremony put on by the otherwise-august institution for the past 27 years.

Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? Linguist John McWhorter says that there's much more to texting — linguistically, culturally — than it seems, and it's all good news.