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Studies with wooden blocks show "that children who play with blocks learn language better and have better cognition."

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will decide whether to list the greater sage grouse as endangered. Many groups, including some oil and gas firms and a conservation group, don't want that to happen.

Airs Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

The Mars rover Curiosity has a lot of technology built into her, but she's also got something extra: a social media presence.

Before NASA can send a manned mission to Mars, it needs to know more about how extended time in space affects the human body. Mark and Scott Kelly are the perfect subjects for such an experiment.

Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada is one-third of what it should be this time of year. Despite that, state and federal water managers say they will take advantage of recent precipitation and send more water to central and southern California.

Airs Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Tobacco users often have to pay higher premiums for health insurance, and it's not clear if switching to e-cigarettes will help them escape that fate. A lot depends on what federal agencies decide.

Filmmakers across the region — both professional and amateur — grabbed their cameras, GoPros and smartphones to capture scenes of San Diego life for a national documentary.

A study on the wandering mind had a simple request: Just think. But many participants couldn't sit still for very long, and they even were willing to shock themselves to avoid doing nothing.