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Differences in the patterns of genes that are turned on in brains of people and mice suggest glial cells may have helped humans develop brains that can acquire language and solve complex problems.

The matter of foreign aid has taken on renewed urgency in the Trump administration. And it turns out it isn't easy to figure out whether it's effective.

Airs Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 2:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

Cartoonist Bill Griffith discovered as an adult that his mother had had a 16-year affair with another man, also a cartoonist. In Invisible Ink, he digs into the secrets surrounding his family.

An 18-acre development planned by San Diego-based televangelist Morris Cerullo will soon go before the Mission Valley Planning Group. Several groups are concerned about Cerullo's anti-gay preaching and the project’s impact on traffic.

The two U.S.-based outdoor companies that sell hunting and fishing equipment are joining forces in a deal expected to close in the first half of 2017.

A British mathematician proclaimed in 1906 that there's a better way to cut a cake than dividing it into wedges. Now a video by Alex Bellos is bringing his method back to life.

She was 26. Her relatives found her body in the morning. The prime minister of Nepal called the district to find out what happened.

California closed an ugly chapter in its financial history on Wednesday by making its final payment on $14.2 billion in costly borrowing that plugged a budget deficit 11 years ago but eventually cost taxpayers about $5 billion in interest and fees.

Some people in Egypt think autism is a curse. But a psychologist named Dahlia Soliman is determined to change attitudes.