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From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, there's widespread acknowledgment that Steve Jobs' close relationship to the Apple brand and the company's employees is something that can't easily be replicated. There's no guarantee Apple can create the next big thing without Jobs at the helm.

Dr. Raul Ruiz grew up in a trailer park in this poor district in Southern California’s interior. The son of Mexican farm workers, he studied medicine at Harvard and then returned to his community to focus on the health problems of a poor, Latino population.

The recent destruction and loss of lives across the United States echoes another era more than 100 years ago — a time when humans began trying to outwit and even defeat tornadoes. After a deadly 1896 tornado in St. Louis, one proposal called for building large walls near big cities to protect them from twisters.

Americans for Prosperity first enlisted the Republican presidential candidate in 2005 to spearhead what it called the Prosperity Expansion Project. Herman Cain met his future campaign manager, his first press secretary and the architect of his 9-9-9 tax plan while working with the organization.

North Korea claims to have joined the nuclear club with an underground test Sunday night. Intelligence agencies say they detected a large explosion, but questions remain. How can you tell is an explosion was nuclear, how do you measure an underground detonation, and what do the numbers tell us?

Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Goya were all victims of cranioklepty, or having their skulls stolen in the name of science. This bizarre phenomenon is the subject of Colin Dickey's new book Craniokelpty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius.

Scientists have witnessed the eruption of a deep-sea volcano for the first time ever, capturing on video the fiery bubbles of molten lava as they exploded 4,000 feet beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean in what researchers are calling a major geological discovery.

Israel has been conducting air strikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip since Saturday. Conditions inside Gaza are very dangerous. Mkhaimer Abu Sada is a political science professor at Al-Azhar University in Gaza City. He says where he lives in northern Gaza it is not safe to walk around. He tells Steve Inskeep that "life is like hell here — it has been very bad here."

It's a good time to be a craft brewer, as Americans are thirsty for full-flavored and local beers. But when small breweries grow, they can also risk losing some of the "craftiness" their fans love. And when they expand, many brewers have to rewrite their recipes — starting with the water.

About 20,000 workers are toiling long hours to clean up all that oil in the Gulf of Mexico. One New Orleans hospital has seen 11 cleanup workers in the past few weeks with symptoms such as dizziness, headache and nausea. But the greatest risk is not chemicals, it's likely heat stress from people working long hours in temperatures hovering around 95 degrees.