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The shipment is the first in an operation that U.S. military officials anticipate could scale up to 150 truckloads a day entering the Gaza Strip as Israel presses in on the southern city of Rafah.

Google is unveiling a new quantum computing chip. Will it help unlock the secrets of the universe?

Sometimes holidays can lead to tense conversations -- if not everyone shares the same set of facts. NPR's Life Kit has some tips for navigating those conversations and setting the record straight.

A surprising number of Texas tortoises go on the lam. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Brenda Bush of Central Texas Tortoise Rescue about how to keep a tortoise from going astray.

NPR asks Katherine Carey, deputy head of the United Nation's Office of Humanitarian Affairs in Afghanistan, about relief efforts following the massive earthquake in eastern Afghanistan.

Netflix's The Diplomat rides a compelling line between serving up hefty slices of political and emotional drama.

Our year-long series visits a man obsessed with the sound of TV. Phil Gries started recording audio from his television set in the 1950s. He still has over 10-thousand items, and has turned his hobby into a business -- supplying audio from old TV shows to other collectors and museums. He says he was motivated by the ethereal nature of live TV to preserve broadcasts of all sorts.

Wilt Chamberlain, a seven-foot-tall black man in a white man's NBA, changed professional basketball forever in one momentous night when he scored 100 points. Author Gary M. Pomerantz profiles a natural athlete with be-bop cool.

Amy Tardif of member station WGCU reports from Fort Myers, Florida on the new musical composition, Voice of the Everglades, by Steve Heitzig. It's a musical tribute to the late activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas, one of the leaders in the movement to save 'The River of Grass.' Tardif talks to Heitzeg, as well as author Peter Mathieson, and singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett. Yesterday President Clinton signed the Everglades Restoration Bill, a 30-year, eight-billion dollar program to restore the region's natural water flow, which has been diverted for residential development and farming. (8:50)

The 16-member team will begin the study on Monday. The research, which will use unclassified data, will lead to a report that will be made available to the public next year.