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Airs Wednesdays, July 1 - 15, 2015 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

Drugmakers have brought almost 450 orphan drugs to market and collected rich incentives by doing so. But nearly a third of the medicines aren't new or were repurposed many times for financial gain.

Research into an ancient stone found in a cave in Italy shows Paleolithic hunter-gatherers were grinding oats and other grains for flour. It's the earliest evidence yet of food processing in Europe.

The industry has been an economic, cultural and tourist boon since its beginnings in the early 20th century. But today it's a shadow of its former self. Can a $1.2 billion development proposal save it?

The $3.8 million will fund a five-year study of brain mechanisms that suppress relapses of cocaine and alcohol addiction.

The state of Ohio on Thursday conducted its first execution since running out of the lethal injection drug pentobarbital.

Airs Dec. 13, 2017 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Edward Frieman, a former head of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a national adviser on defense, energy and science policy, has died. He was 87.

Author Eric Weiner identifies Renaissance Florence, Classical Athens and Silicon Valley as "genius clusters." And he explains how the right amount of friction and competition can help geniuses thrive.

Education Minister Yuan Guiren says the country's institutions of higher learning should stop using textbooks that criticize China's leaders and political system.