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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the Gaelic Athletic Association's Director of Communications, Alan Milton, about hurling and Camogie having been named cultural treasures this week by UNESCO.

The U.S. government is intervening to stop the creation of a medical facility in Philadelphia where people could inject heroin without risk of overdose. Canada and Europe already have such sites.

Airs Monday, Oct. 2, 2017 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

The company that started as a search engine is making a big leap into the auto industry. Scientists at Google X are building self-driving cars they plan to debut (at least in test mode) this summer.

"The government is pushing the need for this technology from the top, so companies don't have big obstacles in making it happen," says an executive at a major Chinese artificial intelligence company.

Airs Monday, Feb. 12, 2018 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

For years, people have been crying about how chopping onions brings on the waterworks. Well, there's finally a tearless onion, but the allium has not quite caught on with the general public yet.

Europeans now have the right to ask that Internet search results about them be removed. But legal experts say each of the EU's 28 countries could interpret the decision differently.

The 116th Congress has 127 women members. That's far more than the previous record, but it also is far from gender parity.

Monday, Nevada's Legislature becomes the first in U.S. history to have a majority of female lawmakers. In Colorado, also a first, women hold the majority in the House of Representatives.