Plus: A NASA scientist was shrieking in her lab as years of hard work paid off and she was able to recreate the spider-like structures on Mars. Also: Two years after the country’s economy collapsed, and protestors invaded the presidential palace -- and its pool -- Sri Lankans are set to elect a leader this weekend; and we speak with the daughter-in-law of Montréal jazz legend Rufus Nathaniel Rockhead, owner of Rockhead's Paradise, the first Black-owned jazz club in Montréal.

Plus: “We’re kind of used to curveballs.“ A surgeon who normally works on horses does a first-of-its-kind operation on a baby rhino.

Also: The Teamsters say they've decided not to endorse either Presidential Candidate in the US elections - after decades of supporting Democrats. The head of the union's Black caucus explains why his organization is backing Harris anyway; and an artist finds a modern muse in his paintings of junk food.

Plus: “It’s such a universal instrument.” Filmmaker Theo Schear and world-renowned harpist Mary Lattimore pull some strings to create a harp emoji.

Also: A Sudanese-Canadian man says his sister died waiting for approval to come to Canada; TikToker Talia Cadet tells us what’s at stake for creators like her as a U.S. court considers the country’s proposed ban on the Chinese-owned platform; and a new type of parasitoid wasp burrows inside fruit fly abdomens to lay its eggs.