Kid of the Year, Gee's Bend, Cosmic Queries

Published: April 2, 2021, 8 p.m.

Meet TIME Magazine's first-ever "Kid of the Year" - she's a 15-year-old scientist and inventor. Also, how quilts made by descendants of formerly enslaved people in a remote Alabama town became world famous. Then, what questions people from all over the world most often ask astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Also today: why much of the research being done about autism ignores what autistic people actually want and need, the mold that makes food taste better and ages meat faster, and why one California family built a rollercoaster in their backyard.