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For decades, architects have worked to turn shipping containers into homes and mock up cities that are plug and play. Now a startup in Texas is building a luxury studio that would travel when you do.

The Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler, a former doctor, is known as a literate and introspective musician. But then he wondered how his brainy musings would translate to music for the body.

The Indian jazz fusion band stops by the Tiny Desk for a historical performance.

Rom Lipscius of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science explains what the discovery of Jerry Springer the crab -- which marine biologists call a "bilateral gynandromorph" -- means for the study of blue crab genetics.

NPR's Michele Norris asked people to share thoughts about race and identity in six words. Her series of reports on Morning Edition offered insights on "pride, prejudice and identity," judges say.

The 2013 Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships in Finland have crowned a winner in the Women's category — Asa Lundgren from Sweden. Audie Cornish and Robert Siegel have more.

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, who was found not guilty in November in the death of Kate Steinle, was sentenced Friday on a state gun violation to time already served. He will now face federal gun charges.

Michigan State Police and local officials rounded up a group of 13 semitruck drivers to park below a freeway overpass to shorten the fall of a man trying to jump to his death.

Images taken four days ago by a Chinese satellite show something large floating in the same general area of the Indian Ocean as in earlier pictures. But searchers didn't find anything Saturday.

Stratolaunch Systems is a new venture from Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen and aviation pioneer Burt Rutan that plans to launch rockets into space from a specially built jet aircraft with a wingspan greater than the length of a football field.