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Mark Prausnitz, Georgia Tech Regents professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, holds a vaccine patch containing microneedles that dissolve into the skin.

A Vaccine Patch Could Someday Be An Ouchless Option

Scientists around the world are working on a way to inject vaccines painlessly. The trick is to make the needles so small. they don't interact with the nerve endings that signal pain.

Retired two-star U.S. Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton co-authored a recent op-ed about the fear that a coup could succeed after the 2024 elections.

Retired general warns the U.S. military could back a coup after the 2024 election

Retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton says war-gaming and civics education could help assure that the military is better prepared for a contested election.

The January 6 attack on the Capitol raised alarm bells for a think tank studying democracy.

Democracy is declining in the U.S. but it's not all bad news, a report finds

The United States has joined the list of countries where democracy is backsliding, according to a new report by the think tank International IDEA.

A coronavirus patient lies on a bed surrounded by medical staff inside the intensive care unit at a Scripps hospital in this undated photo.

County Expanding Access To COVID-19 Therapy Proven To Reduce Illness

San Diego County health officials are expanding access to a coronavirus therapy that has been proven to reduce the severity of illness when used soon after symptoms arise.

Protesters gather in Grand Park at a "March for Freedom" rally demonstrating against the L.A. City Council's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for city employees and contractors on Monday in Los Angeles. A new study from Pew Research Center breaks down ideology within political parties, including on the role of government.

Feel like you don't fit in either political party? Here's why

The division is far more complicated than a split between Republicans and Democrats, according to the Pew Research Center. Here are the differences in ideology on race, economics and government.

In this image from video, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill discusses motions before the court on Tuesday in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn.

Judge In Chauvin Trial Rules That Underage Witnesses Can Testify

The testimony of people who were minors when they saw George Floyd's killing includes a person who took a video of the incident.

Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov (center), along with film director Klim Shipenko (right) and actress Yulia Peresild (left) pose for a photo ahead of the launch of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft to the International Space Station from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome.

A Russian actor blasts off to make a movie on the International Space Station

The film is reportedly the first feature-length fiction movie shot in space, telling the story of a doctor who rushes to save the life of a cosmonaut aboard the International Space Station.

Fireworks over the U.S. Capitol. (undated photo)

A Capitol Fourth 2021

Stream or tune in Sunday, July 4, 2021 at 8 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

Scientists Say The Rush To Do COVID Research Led To A Whole Lot Of Waste

That's the perspective in new papers in Lancet Global Health that assess the nearly a quarter of a million studies on treatments for COVID-19.

Climate Report Co-Author: 'The Pile Of Evidence Is Now Enormous'

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Kim Cobb, one of the lead authors of the U.N.'s new landmark climate report, about the urgency of acting to lower emissions and how oceans are impacted by climate change.

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