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The cast of "Miss Saigon" takes part in the curtain call on opening night at the Broadway Theatre on March 23, 2017 in New York City.

This Week In Race: Census Worries, Yellowface And Kendall Jenner. Again.

In this edition: posers, pretenders and passers.

"We should be around the world. But we should also be focused on our own backyards," Microsoft President Brad Smith says.

Microsoft Courts Rural America, And Politicians, With High-Speed Internet

In rural America, 23.4 million people do not have high-speed Internet. Microsoft plans to change that, in an effort that uses cheap technology and appeals to the lowest common denominator in politics.

Einstein understanding light through speed and time.

NOVA: Inside Einstein's Mind

Airs Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday, June 2 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2

Microsoft Courts Rural America, And Politicians, With High-Speed Internet

In rural America, 23.4 million people do not have high-speed Internet. Microsoft plans to change that, in an effort that uses cheap technology and appeals to the lowest common denominator in politics.

Jake Solomon, cofounder of Bold Brew, pours a cup of cold brew coffee, Feb. 3, 2017.

San Diego State Called Model For Teaching Entrepreneurship

Major gifts from the business community are fueling student start-ups at San Diego State University.

A body camera appears in this undated photo.

San Diego Scientists Weigh Body Camera Ethics

Data from wearable cameras and GPS trackers can reveal private information about their study subjects’ lives and the people they meet.

Technicians at NASA Kennedy Space Center install the radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) onto the New Horizons spacecraft.

NOVA: Chasing Pluto

Airs Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Betsy Levy Paluck is a psychology professor at Princeton University. She ran a year-long experiment in Rwanda to see whether radio soap operas could be used to reduce prejudice.

'Genius Grant' Winner Used A Soap Opera To Prove A Point About Prejudice

Betsy Levy Paluck is a newly minted MacArthur fellow. Her research in Rwanda looked at how people become more tolerant.

Kathy Niakan, a developmental biologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London, used the CRISPR gene editing technique to find out how a gene affects the growth of human embryos.

Editing Embryo DNA Yields Clues About Early Human Development

Researchers disabled a gene that they think helps determine which human embryos will develop normally. The technique they used is controversial because it could be used to change babies' DNA.

Jasper Barnett, a junior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., looks up in the school's planetarium.

Relics Of The Space Race, School Planetariums Are An Endangered Species

Once, there were more than 300 of them in schools around the country. Many are still around, but they're getting old. Schools have a choice: Keep the stars shining, or turn the lights out.

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