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For most people the need for reading glasses is as inevitable as gray hair and wrinkles. Companies are experimenting with corneal implants to improve the ability to focus close up.

Airs Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS TV + Monday, Feb. 4 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS 2

The race has come down to competing visions for the future of Latin America's largest economy, put forth by leftist incumbent Dilma Rousseff and center-right challenger Aecio Neves.

A financial incentive to install solar panels could be changing

A Mexican judge ordered the immediate release Friday of retired Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi. He walked across the border at San Ysidro, boarded a private jet at Brown Field and flew home to Florida.

Airs Sundays, August 26 & September 1, 2012 at 7 p.m. on KPBS TV

With a scarcity of jobs during the Depression, more than a million people of Mexican descent were sent to Mexico. Author Francisco Balderrama estimates that 60 percent were American citizens.

Flashback to the 1980s, when President Ronald Reagan tried to restrict funding for Planned Parenthood. Efforts in Congress have continued since then, with the latest focused on fetal tissue research.

Meet two animals. Both are teeny. Both live in water. Both mature extra fast. But while one dies in about a week, the other — well, prepare to be amazed.

Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez said the corruption scandal in the Sweetwater Union High School District inspired her to write a new law that would forbid public school administrators from raising money for school-board candidates.