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The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has set up its website, and created smart phone apps, to help children track Santa Claus as he prepares for his round-the-world flight later this month.

Chef Carla Hall invites us over to make spanakopita, one of her favorite Greek dishes. Her new cookbook is all about celebrating the way home-cooked meals unite us — no matter where we're from.

Two new books, The Gift of Failure and How To Raise An Adult, argue that too many children are being given too much.

The show aired to intense interest: More than 20 million people watched Discovery's YouTube trailer for the special, in which naturalist Paul Rosolie said, "We're going to get me inside of a snake."

Two new books, The Gift of Failure and How To Raise An Adult, argue that too many children are being given too much.

In the final, Conrad Bassett–Bouchard of Portland used words including "florigen." Of the runner-up, the tournament head says, "He's going to be kicking himself for missing 'gramarye.' "

People are getting the message about the dangers of secondhand smoke at home, a CDC study says. But half of smokers still light up in the house, putting the health of relatives and friends at risk.

Travel Light is an unjustly forgotten fairy tale about a wandering princess who goes from bears and dragons to the real world of medieval Constantinople — and back again. Writer Amal El-Mohtar says she encountered the book as an adult and "felt, very powerfully, that I had been waiting for it."

Ever dreamt of having zoom vision, just like the Terminator? Well, the technology isn't as far-fetched as Hollywood would have you think. UC San Diego engineers are currently hard at work to perfect the world's first telescopic contact lenses.

One week after its rocky rollout, the federal site to help you sign up for health insurance exchanges went down again overnight for additional software fixes. The Obama administration says the technology powering the marketplaces buckled under unexpectedly high traffic. But the ongoing software hiccups for healthcare.gov point to a much thornier problem: procurement processes.