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Patient care technical workers and service workers picketed throughout the day at hospitals and clinics statewide, including at UC San Diego medical center in Hillcrest. The union represents more than 22,000 UC hospital workers across the state.

UCSD Hospital Workers Take Part in Statewide One-Day Strike

Thousands of University of California health care workers across the state will picket today day at hospitals and clinics statewide, including at UC San Diego medical campuses in San Diego and La Jolla.

The MQ-1 Predator is one model of drone already being manufactured by General Atomics. Local business leaders hope to establish an FAA test site for such unpiloted aircraft in the region.

Local Business Leaders Seek Drone Industry Dominance

One of today's most controversial growth industries is still looking for a home, and a new coalition of business leaders is working to make sure that when people think drones, they think San Diego.

Early Counting of the Latino Vote

Early vote counts of Latinos may be misleading

Want To Feel Five Years Older? Just Take A Memory Test

Researchers in a memory lab at Texas A&M; University noticed that all the older people coming in as volunteers were really worried about how they'd do.

Four Robots That Are Learning To Serve You

Robots are moving further from sci-fi into everyday reality. They can now assist with doing housework, giving directions and even performing surgery. They're still a few years off, but here are a few robots we may live with someday.

A survivor walks amid the rubble after the earthquake and tsunami that hit the northern coast of Japan on March 11, 2011.

Surviving The Tsunami: A NOVA Special Presentation

Airs Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

Group Aims To Restore Civililty To San Diego's Civic Dialogue

The 2nd Annual Conference On Restoring Civility to Civic Dialogue gets underway Wednesday at USD.

Author Doris Lessing died Sunday at the age of 94. Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature for a life's work which included around 40 books and collections of essays and memoirs.

How Writer Doris Lessing Didn't Want To Be Remembered

In the course of a long and eventful life, author Doris Lessing was many things.

View of W. M. Keck Observatory at sunset, summit of Mauna Kea, Island of Hawaii.

NOVA: Finding Life Beyond Earth

Airs Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Flower, a 2009 release from thatgamecompany, is one of two video games the Smithsonian American Art Museum has acquired for its permanent collection.

Museums Give Video Games Bonus Life, But The Next Level Awaits

The long-running debate over whether video games constitute art may finally be moot -- at least as far as the Smithsonian American Art Museum is concerned. Last week, SAAM acquired two video games, Halo 2600 and Flower, for its permanent collection.

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