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American and Canadian chefs are learning what Mexicans have long known: a bluish fungus that infects corn kernels is delicious. And now scientists want to figure out how to grow it on corn on purpose.

A massive explosion in the Chinese city of Tianjin killed more than 100 people last week. Correspondent Frank Langfitt says the country's corruption and a lack of accountability have endangered lives.

From self-driving cars to automated warehouses, humans are being pushed out of the equation. Soon, robots will "do a million other things we can't even conceive of," author John Markoff says.

A tank apparently containing some type of pressurized gas exploded at a warehouse just north of the U.S.-Mexico border.

In Hamburg, home to one of Europe's busiest ports, support for trade is fervent. But many Germans have their doubts about a proposed trans-Atlantic agreement that is expected next year.

Most of those still unaccounted for are firefighters who responded to last week's explosions, officials say.

At New Orleans exhibits commemorating the 10th anniversary of the hurricane, NPR's Neda Ulaby found three artists who said they wouldn't have become artists if it hadn't been for the storm.

A combination of hot calcium carbide and water could have produced large amounts of the explosive gas acetylene, one expert tells NPR, leading to Wednesday's deadly blasts in Tianjin.

One survivor, a 19-year-old firefighter, was found Friday. The remains of five more victims were also found.

The powerful blasts toppled stacks of shipping containers, scorched hundreds of cars in nearby lots, and blasted out the windows of cars and buildings.