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Technology is designed to be addictive, offering gratification that's similar to that of drug abuse or gambling. Author Adam Alter says a new frontier could soon provide another escape from reality.

Immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, but were protected from deportation by President Obama, are being warned by some advocates to make sure they are not traveling abroad when Donald Trump is sworn in as president.

While Republicans have held relatively steady since 2008 with urban and suburban voters, they have made considerable gains in rural America.

The zoo said the unnamed lemur was born to Morticia, a first-time mother, and lets keepers take him out for daily weigh-ins in exchange for fruit.

Airs Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV (not available to stream on demand)

Scientists at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla said their study "provides critical insight on a paramount issue in HIV research."

Getting kids to eat veggies through subterfuge — say, spinach smoothies -- sets the bar too low, researchers say. Your child must actually learn to like veggies, weird textures and all. Here's how.

Some of the five mass extinctions Earth experienced in the past were driven by climate changes. Future Earth will be just fine. It's us humans we need to worry about, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

Glenn Paulo Balancar is charged with six misdemeanor counts, including sexual battery.

Connie Willis' near-future tale of oversharing gone wrong follows a woman whose fiance wants to get an empathy-inducing brain operation for couples. The book aims for frothy farce, but falls flat.