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An email seen by NPR says the move is to comply with a presidential order to "restore biological truth" to the government.

A commercial spacecraft carrying NASA experiments successfully touched down on the moon's surface early Sunday morning, ushering in a new phase of private space exploration.

The pups from Team Fluff weren't the only winners. See freeze-frame highlights from the 21st edition of the Puppy Bowl.

"When one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful person in the world is saying you've committed a crime, it doesn't matter what the truth is," says Valerie Costa, an anti-Tesla protester.

Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her science fiction novel Orbital. The novel follows six international astronauts as they orbit the Earth for one day of their nine-month space mission.

Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability to really move their ears about 25 million years ago.

Opening Reception with LIVE music curation by Nick Lesley + small bites by UPAC Neighborhood Enterprise Center Reception sponsored by the Friends of the Central Library As part of the Getty’s PST ART: Art and Science Collide, the San Diego Public Library’s Visual Arts Program presents "Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work," featuring the pioneering work of Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison. As founding members of UC San Diego's Visual Arts Department, the Harrisons developed groundbreaking ecological concepts. Presented as a multi-site exhibition in four locations around San Diego simultaneously, the exhibitions will examine the California works produced between the late 1960s and 2000s: Urban Ecologies, The Prophetic Works, Saving the West, and Future Gardens. Saving the West will allow visitors to delve deeply into the series of works associated with the Harrisons’ research on the fragile and environmentally threatened ecologies of the Pacific Coast fog forest and the Sierra Nevada mountains. Works reveal the Harrisons’ concept of the Force Majeure and their increasing concern with the issue of global climate change and related environmental degradation. "Helen & Newton Harrison: California Work" is organized and presented by the La Jolla Historical Society with partner venues California Center for the Arts Escondido, San Diego Central Library Judith Harris Art Gallery, and Mandeville Art Gallery at the University of California San Diego. Curated by Tatiana Sizonenko. "Helen & Newton Harrison: California Work" is among more than 70 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART. In September 2024 with its latest edition, PST ART: Art & Science Collide, this landmark regional event explores the intersections of art and science, both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit pst.art

On Midday Edition Monday, we look at how voters are thinking about the war in Gaza ahead of the presidential election.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents a virtual PAST FORWARD conversation exploring how competing narratives from politicians and the press can shape the public's understanding of the politics and policy. This conversation will be inspired in part by "The Movement and The 'Madman'" and CITIZEN HEARST, both of which are now streaming on the PBS app. Featured guests: Yu Ouyang: Associate Professor of Political Science, Purdue University Northwest Jeremi Suri: Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs, the University of Texas at Austin The discussion will be moderated by Kelly McBride, Senior Vice President of The Poynter Institute for Media Studies. The conversation will also be streamed live on AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's Facebook and YouTube channels.

Microsoft says it will wind down the pioneering and once ubiquitous free video calling service so it can streamline its consumer communications offerings, such as Microsoft Teams.