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Heidi Durrow's debut novel, The Girl Who Fell From The Sky, explores biracial identity in young adulthood. The book has received critical acclaim as well as the Bellwether Prize for fiction that addresses issues of social justice.

As part of our monthly series on ethics in science and technology, we'll look at how the Internet has changed access to scientific studies and how the public can benefit and be harmed by it.

So these won't be remembered as the Vonn-couver Olympics after all. It's looking like they will belong to the entire U.S. delegation instead.

How will big changes at NASA impact the local aerospace industry? We speak to participants in the upcoming SpaceUp unconference about the local space exploration industry, and how the nation's space exploration goals have evolved over time.

The Navy will hold the first of two public meetings tonight, on plans to expand training activities along the Silver Strand.

How do you bridge science and society? That's the theme of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science which is taking place in San Diego this week.

Confidential informants — people who pose as criminals so they can provide information to the police or some government agency — have helped crack some major U.S. cases. They are part of the shadowy side of law enforcement and operate in a secret and largely unregulated world.

Louise Erdrich's Shadow Tag follows the disintegration of a marriage beset by betrayal and manipulation. Reviewer Heller McAlpin says Erdrich's novel raises "issues about art, privacy and identity."

Baja California police say a man they detained who had a high calibre armor piercing gun offered officers $20,000 to let him go.

The war-on-terror thriller and the sci-fi sensation received nine Academy Awards nominations each, including best picture and director for Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow and her ex-husband James Cameron.