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Microbiologist Jennifer Doudna at the University of California, Berkeley. She's co-inventor of the CRISPR-Cas9 technology — a tool that's recently made the snipping and splicing of genes much easier.

Scientists Urge Temporary Moratorium On Human Genome Edits

Researchers who helped develop powerful techniques warn that tweaking the genome is now easy. More public debate's needed, they say, before making changes in genes passed from parent to child.

The cast of AMERICA'S TEST KITCHEN: Lisa McManus, Adam Ried, Bridget Lancaster, Julia Collin Davison and Jack Bishop.

AMERICA'S TEST KITCHEN FROM COOK'S ILLUSTRATED: Seafood Supper

Airs Saturday, April 15, 2017 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV

Members of ÌFÉ perform at NuevoFest in Philadelphia

Summer Latin Music Festivals Offer Music And Opportunity

For Latinx musicians who have found themselves excluded from the stages of mainstream festivals, a growing range of festivals and tours catering to Latinx artists and fans is changing the game.

Dr. Kimberly Remski was told by a potential employer that she couldn't provide abortions during her free time, something she felt called to do. "I realized it was something I really needed to do," she says.

For Doctors Who Want To Provide Abortions, Employment Contracts Often Tie Their Hands

Some doctors are morally opposed to performing abortions. Others feel it's their calling and give up weekends to work at small clinics that offer them. And that can put their jobs in jeopardy.

Left: A bartender at Hops & Barley brew pub pours a pint of beer in Berlin, Germany. Right: A portrait of Martin Luther. The protest that Luther launched 500 years ago not only revamped how Europe worshiped, but also how it drank. He and his followers promoted hops in beer as an act of rebellion against the Catholic Church.

The Other Reformation: How Martin Luther Changed Our Beer, Too

The protest movement Luther launched 500 years ago revamped not only how Europe worshipped but how it drank. We'd call him the patron saint of beer except, well, he wouldn't like the "saint" part.

Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort star as unlikely lovers in "Harold and Maude."

Ken Cinema Mixes It Up For A Week Of Classics

Action, sci-fi, romance, and foreign films fill the bill at Landmark this week

Catch A Philosophical Wave In 'Surfing With Sartre'

Philosophy professor and avid surfer Aaron James brings his two passions together in his new book, drawing connections between the surfer's state of mind and age-old philosophical conundrums.

Krav Maga instructor Dana Ben Kaplan demonstrates an arrest technique at a special class for law enforcement and military personnel, May 27, 2015.

Krav Maga Another Non-Lethal Tool For San Diego County Law Enforcement

Some San Diego County law enforcement officers are training in a technique that could be an extra tool when situations escalate.

Former President Barack Obama speaks to students at the University of Illinois, where he accepted the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government on Friday in Urbana.

Obama Begins Midterm Push, Urging Rebuke Of Trump And Politics Of 'Fear And Anger'

The former president, who received an ethics award at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is urging people to vote in the midterms.

Mothers and their babies at Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in the Philippines.

POV: Motherland

Airs Monday, Oct. 16, 2017 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

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