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How do you become a fan on forbidding genres when you're coming in cold? Tips on approachable entry points, asking questions, joining communities and otherwise making yourself available to new music and new experiences.

Here's an animal that's really, really old on our planet, a true survivor. But to keep going, it has been forced to move, over and over, till it has almost out of moves. The story of a bug that ran away from flowers and learned to live on ice.

You're born, live and die with one body. One is all you get. But some people, says neurologist Oliver Sacks, occasionally get another one; it's an illusion, a hallucination, but it follows you around, copying everything you do. It looks like it's keeping you company. But it's not.

Recent Oscar-nominated films, along with an experimental new album by alt-pop singer Petra Haden, remind us that movies are as much about what we hear than what we see.

Chef Roblé Ali has prepared meals for big names, including President Obama and Michael Jackson. He climbed the ranks in the restaurant world and now, he runs his own catering service and has a reality TV show. He talks to guest host Celeste Headlee about serving clients with unusual tastes, and shares tips on hosting summer parties.

Forget touch screens and voice recognition. What if you could control your computer just by looking at it? Gaze-based interaction has been around for 20 years, but it may be poised to become more widely available — and affordable.

The number of Americans with diabetes is set to skyrocket in the next 40 years. Social media has given patients an online support network and information repository for dealing with their disease. Big drug companies are hopping on the bandwagon as well.

When it comes to heavy metal, one group has claimed the title of "world's heaviest metal band." The humans tinkering with the robots say the goal isn't to replace human musicians.

President Obama's biggest speeches have a musicality to them. That's not an accident. His speechwriters obsess over rhythm and cadence.

Looking over the state of U.S. science funding these days, it's hard not to get depressed. But the BoldlyGo Institute challenges us to remember that the stakes are too high to give up.