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There's a fine line between telling people about an emerging public health threat, such as Zika virus, and scaring them out of their wits. Once alarm spreads, it can be hard to make the facts known.

The years lost to mental illness around the globe — years of disability, early death — could be far greater than previous estimates.

Zika was ignored by infectious disease scientists for years. This happens more often than you might think, especially with diseases discovered in remote regions. A researcher says we can do better.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Lizzie Skurnick, cultural critic of Harper Lee's books, about what she will be most remembered for.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Nora Besansky, a professor of biology specializing in mosquitoes, about what would happen if mosquitoes were eradicated.

Donald Trump supporters say that his message is actually uplifting, despite the popular view that he is simply riding a wave of anger. While Ted Cruz's message has fewer threads of hope.

It's time to go racing! The NASCAR season kicks off this weekend at the Daytona International Speedway. And the place is all new after undergoing a major renovation in a bid to stay relevant in a competitive sports landscape.

This week's military commissions of Guantanamo Bay detainees slogged or ground to a halt when the accused tried to fire their attorneys — again. Then excerpts shown from torture scenes in the film Zero Dark Thirty jolted the staid war court. The trials of some of the detention center's most prominent detainees have no end in sight even as President Obama hopes to close the Guantanamo facility.

We talk with Barrie Hardymon of NPR's Weekend Edition about the book that was, for most of her life, Harper Lee's only published novel.

Ann Goldstein is the translator for the mysterious novelist's popular Neapolitan series. She says her role is to "enable someone to express him or herself as much as he or she possibly can."