Search results for

The Very Light Car is the last remaining four-seat sedan vying for $5 million in the prestigious X Prize competition. It weighs just over 700 pounds -- far less than a typical compact car. But unlike most other entries in the competition, it's not an electric or a hybrid vehicle.

President Obama has pledged to end childhood hunger by 2015. But the number of hungry children in America has been rising: In 2008, almost 17 million children lived in households where getting enough food was a challenge. The Williamson family of five in Carlisle, Pa., who make $18,000 a year, highlight this struggle.

Statistically speaking, Kendra and Brian Cosom were unlikely candidates for marriage. The 2000 census reports nearly double the number of unmarried African-Americans as compared to whites. Marriage rates are even lower in low-income, black neighborhoods like theirs. Married a year, the couple is learning that staying together takes much more than love.

In the forgotten reaches of the shortwave band, strange voices read out endless strings of numbers. The voices are coming from mysterious "numbers stations," long thought to be used in international espionage, including the recent Russian spy case.

San Diego Gas & Electric has been given the go-ahead to build the Sunrise Powerlink through the Cleveland National Forest. We'll get local reaction to the controversial decision.

Airs Monday, September 24, 2012 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

Each year, thousands of baby sea turtles scramble from their nests in the Florida Panhandle's sandy beaches and Alabama coasts into the water. As the oil spill coats Gulf Coast beaches, rescuers are hatching a daring plan to save as many as 70,000 sea turtle eggs from the disaster.

Airs Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

The Justice Department complaints against 11 Russians accused of acting as unregistered foreign agents are filled with spy novel elements such as bag drops and encoded messages. Even 20 years after end of the Cold War, it's not unusual for Russian spies to get caught in Western countries. What makes the current case unusual is the type of information the 11 alleged spies were after.

Whether it's a sea turtle, a brown pelican or human skin, if it's coated with oil, the product being used to clean it is likely to be Dawn dishwashing liquid. Ironically, petroleum is a key ingredient in the detergent.