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A dramatic increase in ocean temperatures around South Florida in early July caught scientists off-guard. They're now rushing to help struggling coral on the only inshore reef in the continental U.S.

Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship nearly doubled his multi-million dollar compensation package during the years federal regulators grew increasingly alarmed about safety at the company's coal mines. Massey owns the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia where 29 miners died in an explosion April 5. NPR's Howard Berkes joins host Liane Hansen to discuss newly-released documents detailing Blankenship's pay.

A decades-long investigation into the murder of the rapper appeared to take another turn this week after Las Vegas police searched a home in Henderson, Nev.

Fourteen-year-old Anamika Veeramani of North Royalton, Ohio, spelled "stromuhr" to win the 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee Friday night. The event had its moments of drama.

The composer's only opera follows a young wife whose loyalty and faith are put to the test. Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Schumann's birth, the performance comes from the historic Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the city where the opera debuted in 1850.

Tweens and teens go through developmental changes that can be exasperating for parents and can make them feel ineffective. Experts talk about those trying teen years and how parents can learn to cope more effectively while their child moves toward adulthood.

Inspired by Sophocles' Theban Plays, George Enescu was one of the few to narrate the entire life of Oedipus in his Oedipe, an opera that is often hailed as the finest single work ever composed by a Romanian.

Science writer Barbara Strauch set out to explain why our brains falter in middle age, and wound up writing a book about how they can flourish. Scientists tell us that as we careen through middle age, our brains do slow down. We have trouble retrieving names, or we get easily distracted. But the news is nowhere as bad as we might think.

Richard Clarke, the former anti-terrorism czar, has now turned his attention to a new national security threat: cyberwar. In a new book, Clarke details what a full-scale cyberattack could look like, how the United States is particularly vulnerable, and what measures can be taken to ensure our networks remain safe.

The Justice Department has charged a former senior official at the National Security Agency with lying, obstruction of justice and retention of classified information. The indictment alleges that Thomas Drake was the unnamed source for a series of newspaper articles about the NSA's cyber security operations and that he provided copies of classified documents to a reporter. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Robert Siegel about the case.