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The study will take place over five years and will test of the safety of a new treatment involving neural stem cells.

Democratic State Senator Kevin de León was elected Monday and became California’s first Hispanic Senate President pro tem since the nineteenth century.

Humiliation, fear and unpredictability all turn up the volume on pain, research shows. And meditation can turn down pain's intensity, according to scientists who are starting figure out why.

San Diego's old, vacant downtown library is sitting fowl while neighbors, politicians and business people wonder what's next.

Airs Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

The group investigating the Gulf of Mexico oil spill called on the industry and government regulators to focus on science to help guide decisions. They also recommended increased scientific research in the Arctic Ocean, potentially the next frontier for offshore oil exploration.

There are huge gaps in school funding between affluent and property-poor districts. And, with evidence that money matters, especially for disadvantaged kids, something has to change.

What seemed like a case of food poisoning has now turned into a police investigation. Synthetic drugs present an evolving problem for the Drug Enforcement Administration.

The Earth has existed for nearly 5 billion years and, to this point, no other forms of life have been identified in the seemingly boundless expanse of outer space. Commentator Marcelo Gleiser says this simple fact has deep implications for who we are and how we should treat life here on our home world.

We spend roughly a third of our lives asleep, but know very little about what happens while we slumber. In Dreamland, journalist David Randall presents what he's learned about sleep deprivation, dream interpretation and the explanations for his own bizarre sleep habits.