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Havana apartments with a Caribbean view run in the hundreds of thousands. Some houses are being sold for as much as $1 million. The real estate rush is on.

Ebola has made it harder for the prostitutes who issue a come-hither "hiss" along Lumley Beach. Customers are hard to find, pay is down, and, like everyone, the women are scared of the deadly virus.

At 31, a woman had the bacteria in her gut catalogued as part of scientific project that aims to characterize the creatures that live inside us and affect our health. Here's what she found out.

Francis Collins has served longer than any other director of the National Institutes of Health since 1971. He tells NPR he did not anticipate the culture wars taking over scientific fact.

Miami and New York City are racing to become the country's next "crypto capital" at a time when many see virtual currencies as the future of finance.

Kyungmi Shin was born in South Korea and emigrated to the U.S. at 19. Colonization, cross-cultural impacts and immigration are all themes in her current exhibition, Father Crosses the Ocean.

This is Harris' highest-stakes foreign trip yet. She will meet some 13 heads of state to discuss the threat posed by Russia, and will speak at the Munich Security Conference.

This isn't the first time the NRA has held its convention days after a nearby mass shooting. Some politicians and musicians are dropping out, and gun control advocates are preparing protests.

That's the finding in a new study from Global Health 50/50. They report that some progress has been made. But the statistics are, as one woman global health leader puts it, "shocking."

On Good Friday, March 27, 1964, the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America struck Anchorage, Alaska. It sent tsunami waves rushing down the northwest coast to Crescent City, Calif.