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We hear a lot about concussion and kids, but older adults are even more vulnerable to traumatic brain injury. A slip in the kitchen leads one man down the rabbit hole with no clear path out.

San Diego County is surrounded by active faults capable of unleashing large quakes up to a magnitude 7 or higher.

That President Obama could openly speculate about marijuana being less dangerous than alcohol -- and embrace the state-level legalization of the drug -- is a measure of just how far the nation has moved since the 1980s.

General Assembly, an alternative education program, announces a new set of credentials for software-related jobs.

UC San Diego has created an innovative academic program called the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination.

The number of parents delaying or declining to vaccinate their school-age children is climbing in California. We'll speak to San Diego doctors and hear about a new NOVA documentary about vaccines.

Although the Republican-led House decided not to vote to ban abortions after 20 weeks, 10 states already have such measures and more states are considering them.

Every year, a history teacher in Columbus, Miss., takes high schoolers to the local cemetery. There, they tell the stories of those who are buried, and learn more about their own place in the world.

"We're investing on average about $90,000 in the education of each student," says a university official. Where exactly is all that money going?

Looking for a good summer sci-fi or fantasy read? Annalee Newitz of io9 picks her five favorites, from the tale of a time-traveling serial killer, to a cryogenics company that produces "bridesicles," and a compilation of supposedly lost Wikipedia entries.