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DNA isn't just for building life. Chemists have worked out how to use DNA to make microscopic art, from a tiny map of the Americas, at left, to snowflakes. Of course, there's a serious side to all of this, too. The technology could lead to DNA scaffolds for nanostructures.

West Springfield is considering what to do about older school buildings and the need for more preschool classrooms. A controversial school committee decision in January to turn one elementary school into a preschool starting in September 2024 was reversed this week — at least for now, the mayor said.

Florida lawmakers have sent the governor a bill that would provide financial relief to condo owners. The measure softens mandates passed after the deadly 2021 collapse of a condo tower in Surfside.

Building Community in New Hampshire hosted their first celebration of refugee resettlement in Manchester last week.

The money will be distributed to projects such as the construction of rental units near downtown Jaffrey and redevelopment of a former Public Works building in Rochester into housing.

Historic buildings in Beijing are being demolished in the pursuit of quick profit. Even the home of the architect who urged Mao Zedong to preserve Beijing's old city has fallen to the wreckers' ball, sparking considerable outrage. And the epidemic of destruction is spreading to new buildings, too.

Steve Carmody has been a reporter for Michigan Radio since 2005. Steve previously worked at public radio and television stations in Florida, Oklahoma and Kentucky, and also has extensive experience in commercial broadcasting. During his two and a half decades in broadcasting, Steve has won numerous awards, including accolades from the Associated Press and Radio and Television News Directors Association. Away from the broadcast booth, Steve is an avid reader and movie fanatic.

You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.

New Yorker writer Jill Lepore examines the history of polling in America. She tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that today's polls may be less reliable — and more influential — than ever before.

An update on the shootings at Washington Navy Yard that left several people dead.