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Lorena Enebral Perez (left), who was shot and killed on Monday, had worked as a physiotherapist for the Red Cross since May 2016.

Red Cross Worker Slain In Afghanistan: 'All She Wanted To Do Was Help'

Lorena Perez was a physiotherapist. On Monday, a patient in a wheelchair shot and killed her. The motive is not yet known.

R&D Costs For Cancer Drugs Are Likely Much Less Than Industry Claims, Study Finds

Industry says it costs about $2.7 billion to bring a cancer drug to market. But oncologists who ran the numbers put the average closer to $650 million. Drugs are priced way too high, the doctors say.

Photomosaic of downed B-25 bomber. The known B-25 twin-engine bomber wreck was in Madang Harbor. The B-25 type of aircraft was made famous by the "Doolittle Raid'' against the Japanese homeland in April 1942.

San Diego Researchers Find Missing World War II Bomber Off Papua New Guinea

An expedition led in part by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego located a missing World War II bomber off the coast of Papua New Guinea and surveyed another at the bottom of a harbor, it was announced on Tuesday.

Do Laptops Help Learning? A Look At The Only Statewide School Laptop Program

It was 15 years ago that Maine began the first, and still the only, statewide school laptop program. Experts worry that an attempt to bridge the digital divide might have widened it.

Residents of the community of Tujunga, Calif., flee a fire near Burbank on Sept. 2. Even people much farther from the flames are feeling health effects from acrid smoke.

Is All That Wildfire Smoke Damaging My Lungs?

Forest fires have brought a smoky haze to the West, along with stinging eyes, sore throats and headaches to people far from flames. Unseen particles of ash also make it hard for some to breathe.

The San Diego History Center, in an undated photo.

History Center Asks Guests To Pay-It-Forward And Stem Visitor Decline

The San Diego History Center had a very good 2015, showcasing its most popular exhibit yet. But the History Center couldn't hold on to the increase in visitors so they decided to do something unconventional about it.

Adria Gonzalez and Genealogist Kenyatta Berry.

GENEALOGY ROADSHOW: Season 3: Albuquerque (New Season Premiere)

Airs Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

French Presidential Candidate Emmanuel Macron addresses voters during a political meeting on April 17 in Paris.

French Presidential Candidate Macron Takes Page From American Political Playbook

Supporters of political newcomer Emmanuel Macron hope that talking to voters on their doorsteps — an unusual approach in France — will help him become their next president.

A roll of "I Voted" stickers sits on a table at an elementary school during the U.S. presidential election on November 8, 2016 in Dearborn, Mich.

A Tale Of Two Efforts To Improve Confidence In U.S. Elections

One effort, centered on President Trump's voter fraud commission, is mired in controversy. But efforts to improve communication between the feds and election officials are showing progress.

Gwendolyn Kaeser, co-author of a new study identifying differences in gene expression among cells throughout the human brain, holds up a microscope slide, June 23, 2016.

San Diego Scientists Develop New Way Of Looking Deep Inside The Human Brain

By zooming inside individual neurons from different brain regions, scientists found diversity in how different cells transcribe their DNA.

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