The lab will beam back data to train AI models to predict how proteins behind age-related diseases like Alzheimer’s and certain cancers behave.

Space is becoming the next frontier in longevity research.

A British startup just launched self-run chemical experiments into orbit, in the hopes zero-gravity data might shine a light on a group of disease-causing proteins too difficult to study on Earth. But first they need to check whether their autonomous laboratory will work in space.

This episode features Dr. Antoine Haywood, a Journalism assistant professor at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications who studies community participation and representation in local media.

Haywood is keen on understanding how communities use local communication infrastructure such as community-made video, radio, press and digital publications to articulate regional identity, build social capital and fill local news and information gaps.

Fear, loathing, and the only successful coup d’état in American history.

This is the story of the only successful overthrow of a domestic government in American history. Once generally referred to as a “riot,” the events of 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina are now more widely understood to have been a massacre of its African American citizens, and the overthrow of an elected government.

One year earlier, North Carolina’s white supremacist Democratic Party embarked on a carefully orchestrated campaign to drive Fusion coalition politicians, some of whom were Black, out of office during the upcoming election. (At the time, Democrats were businessmen, well-off farmers, and former Confederates, whereas the biracial Fusion coalition contained Populist Party politicians—supported by small, struggling farmers—and Republicans, which represented most Black North Carolinians.) The white supremacy campaign utilized speeches, propaganda cartoons, and the threat of violence to create support for the coup d’état.  

On November 8, 1898, North Carolina’s Democrats used threats and intimidation to stop African Americans from voting. Pro-Democratic Party election officers tampered with the returns. Because of these tactics, Democrats swept the election. On November 10, 1898, two days after the contested election, a violent mob then took to the streets, and attacked African Americans, an unknown number of whom were killed. Local elected officials were forced to resign at gunpoint, and were replaced by white supremacist leaders. Other prominent people—white and Black—were “banished” from the city. Following the coup, many white newspapers throughout the country reported the incident as a “race riot” and suggested that Black citizens were the aggressors. No one was ever prosecuted for the violence. 

This week on Reveal, host Al Letson travels to Montgomery to interview Stevenson as America marks its 250th anniversary. He talks about the importance of memorializing the nation’s darkest chapters as the Trump administration attempts to erase slavery from America’s museums and explains why he sees today’s narrative struggle for racial justice as a generational battle.

Massachusetts and Rhode Island are being sued by the Department of Justice, which accuses the states of discriminating against U.S. citizens who cannot get the same reduced tuition as students without legal residency who live in those states. The DOJ has sued a dozen states over similar policies.

Two researchers — one in Massachusetts and one in Shanghai — hoped for the same breakthrough: a gene therapy for deaf children. New Chinese investment in science propelled the one who got there first.

Americans tend to see the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War as milestones in world history that inaugurated the era of modern democracy. But the British unsurprisingly, see these events quite differently.

David Remnick talks with the historians who host the popular podcast “The Rest Is History,” Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland. Growing up in Britain, Sandbrook explains, the Revolution seemed like “a parade of quite boring men talking very earnestly about liberty, [with] battles that involved twenty people in a field somewhere. . . . It’s not Waterloo!” The King was “annoyed” to lose the thirteen colonies to the new nation, but, for his government, “it could have been a lot worse.”

Sandbrook and Holland discuss historical events that overshadow the American Revolution in the British mind; the 1619 Project and the subject of slavery; the “colossally consequential” Presidency of Donald Trump; and the fate of the British monarchy.

Grain by packed grain, sand artist Sean Fitzpatrick creates the Yarmouth sand sculpture trail. This year marks the 15th anniversary of dozens of seasonal works of arts scattered across this mid-Cape Cod town.

A study based on 47 million galaxies found that the cosmic web retains patterns on enormous scales, which could force a reevaluation of a pillar of cosmology.

One of the fundamental pillars of modern cosmology may be beginning to wobble. A study published in Nature has found evidence that the universe may not behave the same way in every direction on the largest observable scales.

“What we found is a network of enormous filaments and walls of galaxies that remain aligned and interconnected across billions of light-years,” says Francesco Sylos Labini, research director of physics at the Enrico Fermi Research Center in Italy and the study's lead author.

A bill moving through California’s legislature would require schools to test kindergarteners' math skills.

California could begin testing students as early as kindergarten in math.

Proponents of Senate Bill 1067, including state Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson, say the goal is to identify students who are falling behind in math early so they can get help. More than 60% of California students perform below the benchmark on the state’s standardized math test.

Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America is the latest film from Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey for PBS’s American Experience series. It is made in the traditional PBS style, perfect for the Olmsted neophyte and ideal for classroom use because of its length (55 minutes) and subject matter. You can stream it from the

American Experience website.

That Hott and Garey have made a film about the father of American landscape architecture and his legacy is of little surprise. As pioneers in the film genre of environmental biography, they have been circling Olmsted as a topic for a quarter century.

Their first two films produced for PBS broadly examined the history of wilderness in the United States.

This new film covers the fascinating life and work of Frederick Law Olmsted. Born in 1822 to a prosperous Connecticut family, Olmsted spent the first 35 years of his life failing upwards. His formal education was limited due to frequent eye problems and he learned mostly through reading in the family’s book collection and observation while wandering the countryside. Oddly, this and some other telling details are not in the film. But we do learn that at 18, he started a series of jobs and unhappily labored as a surveyor, a clerk, and a deckhand on a merchant ship sailing to China (and nearly died) before his father bought him a farm at age 24. For six years he tried his hand at “scientific farming.” He failed at all these things but the experiences would be incorporated into his life’s work.

The founding document has been fought over since it was written. Today, we can let Trump claim it, or we can take up its battle cry to “alter or to abolish” what’s destroying our country.

Last year, The Atlantic reported that President Donald Trump had queried advisers about putting the delicate original copy of the Declaration of Independence on display in the Oval Office. “Trump’s request alarmed some of his aides, who immediately recognized both the implausibility and the expense of moving the original,” The Atlantic’s Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer wrote. “Displayed in the rotunda at the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C., it is perhaps the most treasured historical document in the U.S. government’s possession.”

Trump eventually settled for displaying a copy, but the document has clearly been on the administration’s mind—perhaps predictably so, given the semiquincentennial celebrations Trump will soon preside over. It was announced in April, for instance, that a limited edition of passports this year would feature John Trumbull’s iconic painting of the draft declaration’s presentation to Congress alongside the text of the declaration—with Trump’s portrait overlaid on top of it, naturally.

SCOTUS upheld bans on transgender athletes in women’s sports, sidestepping evidence and narrowing its own logic on trans discrimination.

he Supreme Court has delivered another blow to LGBTQ rights, upholding legislation that bars trans girls and women from participating in women’s sports. The Court’s 6–3 decision in West Virginia v. B.P.J. (consolidated with Little v. Hecox) addressed laws in West Virginia and Idaho but, in effect, affirmed 27 state-level bans on trans women’s participation in women’s sports.

Although Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act (2020)—the nation’s first ban on transgender athletes—and West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act (2021) both bar transgender student athletes from participating on teams that match their gender identity.

The cases raised different legal questions.

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation had spent a decade shifting the center of gravity away from solely Jefferson-as-genius and toward the full world that existed on that mountain.

How a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded.

Andrés Chait is the first LAUSD insider to fill the top job in a decade after two high-profile external candidates.

Andrés Chait has worked in the Los Angeles Unified School District for nearly 30 years and has never tried the district’s famous coffee cake.

“For a long time, I would get teased about it, and so one day, I — and this was back when I was a principal — I told the kids, ‘I will have my piece of coffee cake on my last day of work with the district.”

It’s unlikely that day will be anytime soon. The district’s board appointed the longtime administrator superintendent of schools during its last scheduled board meeting of the 2025-26 school year.

The school board placed Carvalho on paid administrative leave in February following FBI searches of his home and office.

Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has resigned as leader of the Los Angeles Unified School District, four months after the FBI searched his home and office.

"Placing students first has always guided my work," Carvalho wrote in his resignation letter, provided to LAist by his attorney. "Because I believe our schools must remain focused on students and learning without distraction, I am resigning as Superintendent of LAUSD effective today."

A district spokesperson confirmed receipt of the letter Sunday night. The reason for the timing wasn’t immediately clear.

Sarah Vowell has a theory that you can tell the entire history of the United States by standing on one street corner—specifically at Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive in Chicago—and describing all the events that happened within eyeshot of the corner. She covers three centuries of history, from Louis Joliet to Keanu Reeves. (21 minutes)

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/128/four-corners/act-one-3

The asteroid will be visible for several nights from different parts of the world. We’ll tell you when and where to look, and what equipment you’ll need to spot it.

The European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed that this weekend, asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1 will make its closest approach to Earth in 400 years. There's no risk it will hit Earth, but it will be visible through commercial telescopes and astronomical binoculars from various parts of the world.

The closest approach will occur on Saturday, June 27, when the asteroid will pass 2.56 million kilometers (1.59 million miles) from Earth—a distance equivalent to 6.6 times the distance between Earth and the moon. The object—with a diameter estimated to be between 700 meters and 1.6 kilometers—will not come this close again until 2133, according to the ESA.