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Nancy and Christian Schneider live in the Holly Lake Mobile Home park, where they haven't had electricity in their home since Hurricane Irma struck Florida over a week ago.

National

A Week After Irma, Florida Families Still Living In The Dark

5:29pm September 18, 2017

by Elissa Nadworny

"You don't realize until you lose electricity that [it] basically runs your life," says one resident who is most worried about the oppressive heat. "It's like living in the 1700s."

Fernando Rivera helps out his wife's grandparents after their home flooded during the storm. Initially the water level started to fall, but Rivera says it has stopped receding.

National

One Week After Irma, Floridians Pick Up The Pieces

7:59am September 17, 2017

by Meredith Rizzo

One week after Hurricane Irma slammed Florida, residents of Collier County are in the early stages of the recovery process.

Artist of the Year award winner John Prine at the 2017 Americana Music Association Honors and Awards Ceremony.

Music & Culture

Watch Live: The 2017 Americana Honors & Awards Ceremony

11:06pm September 13, 2017

by Bruce Warren

NPR Music, WMOT and World Cafe present an exclusive webcast for Nashville's big night, with performances by Margo Price, Drive-By Truckers, Sam Outlaw, Rhiannon Giddens, Jason Isbell and more.

A technical diagram of the Cassini spacecraft and a view of the icy moon Enceladus

Science

Saturn's Strangest Sights, As Captured By A Doomed Spacecraft

3:14pm September 13, 2017

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will crash into Saturn on Friday, but we'll always have the shots it took of icy volcanoes, hexagonal storms, ethane lakes and ripples in Saturn's rings.

Water bubbles up through a manhole in downtown Houston.

National

PHOTOS: Houston Flood Caused By Harvey Sends Residents Scrambling For Safety

10:53pm August 27, 2017

The National Weather Service called the rain and flooding "unprecedented," and warned it could top 50 inches in some parts of the region.

Music & Culture

Views From: Germany's Küchwaldrauschen Festival

6:30am August 11, 2017

by Anna Haifisch

German artist Anna Haifisch shares the view from Karl Marx City's Küchwaldrauschen Festival, the first in a series from illustrators around the world documenting their music festival experiences.

A promotional image from Skunk Bear's video on Ape Language.

What Are The Planet's Real 'Talking' Chimps And Gorillas Saying?

12:50pm July 25, 2017

Movies are full of loquacious chimps, but could nonhuman apes really use language? NPR's Skunk Bear sorts through the disturbing history of research on ape language to sort fact from wishful thinking.

Nedal Said risked everything to escape Syria and rejoin the scientific community.

Science

Web Comic: The Scientist Who Escaped Aleppo

11:52am July 11, 2017

It was a harrowing journey. Nedal Said made a new life in Germany — and found what he'd always been looking for.

Music & Culture

First Watch: Tom Adams And 'Time,' A Rare Voice Amid The Mountains

2:18pm July 07, 2017

by Bob Boilen

A chance encounter in Berlin three years ago led Tom Adams toward a honest-to-goodness music career — today, we debut the newest video from his beautiful album Silence.

Snapchat users can upload photos and videos onto the new Snap Map. When a topic is trending, it'll pop up on a heat map. The image above is a composite of Snapchat screen grabs.

Can Snapchat's New 'Snap Map' Bring The World Closer Together?

12:31pm July 06, 2017

by Angus Chen

From cute puppies in Guatemala to daring teens in Jordan, the feature lets users share video clips and photos from their daily lives. Is that a good thing — or is it just making us all voyeurs?