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Francis Parker School eighth grader Snigdha Nandipati will enjoy hometown-hero status when she returns to San Diego County from Maryland, where she won the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Jim Ottaviani has merged his love of science with his love of comic books. He has authored numerous non-fiction comic books on scientific figures and events. His latest works explore what he calls "

The Bracken Bat Cave, just north of San Antonio, is as rural as it gets. You have to drive down a long two-mile rocky road to reach it. There's nothing nearby -- no lights, no running water. The only thing you hear are the katydids.

A controversial bill that would ban the use of hounds to hunt bears and bobcats stalled in an Assembly committee Tuesday.

The amount of radiation found in Pacific bluefin tuna spawned near Fukushima does not threaten our health, despite today's suggestive headlines. What a new study shows is that scientists can rely on tiny amounts of radiation to track animals across great distances.

Airs Saturday, December 22, 2012 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV - CANCELLED

The University of San Diego was awarded a $600,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to increase the number of graduates in science and mathematics, especially among minority and disadvantaged groups.

Space Shuttle Endeavour's Final Landing (Video)

Students at Mount Carmel High aim high, about 100,000 feet straight up. Recently, the Amateur Radio Club at the school launched a helium balloon into near-space.

San Diego is the first city in the U.S. to host the World Congress on Mummy Studies.