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  • UC San Diego Researchers Find Potential Psoriasis Cure
    Researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine announced this week they've discovered that a single molecule might hold the key to curing both psoriasis and slow-healing wounds.
  • Left-Handedness: No Longer Suspect; Still A Mystery
    Lefties get a bad rap — they're sometimes called untrustworthy or insincere, and some dubious studies even claim they die young. Author Rik Smits sets out to debunk those claims in a new book, The Puzzle of Left-handedness.
  • Proposed Initiative Would Require New Food Labels
    Signature gathering is underway for a measure that would place labeling requirements on food that is genetically engineered. Its supporters are aiming for the November ballot and opposition is already gearing up.
  • Some parents have worried that kids get too many vaccinations too quickly. A review of all the available research suggests those concerns are misplaced.
    Schedule Of Childhood Vaccines Declared Safe
    Childhood vaccines for diseases like measles, polio and whooping cough have repeatedly been proved safe and effective. Even so, some parents still worry that the schedule of vaccinations -- 24 immunizations by the age of 2 -- can be dangerous. That worry is likely misplaced, according to a yearlong review of all available scientific data.
  • More than 40 years ago, the EPA banned oil companies from releasing wastewater into the environment, but made an exception for the arid West. If livestock and wildlife can use the water, companies can release it. Cows like these grazing near a stream of waste on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming are supposedly the reason the EPA lets oil companies release their waste into the environment.
    EPA Wants To Allow Continued Wastewater Dumping In Wyoming
    The environmental agency has proposed permits that would allow oil companies to continue releasing contaminated wastewater onto the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming. NPR found last year that the EPA has been allowing oil companies to send so much wastewater onto dry land that it was creating raging streams.
  • Relationships And Rocket Ships In 'Last Girlfriend'
    Everyone has relationship problems, even God — at least, according to humorist Simon Rich. His funny, surreal new collection, The Last Girlfriend on Earth: And Other Love Stories, explores dating and relationships, but also magic talking goats and rocket ships.
  • The Red Sea provides a dramatic backdrop to the KAUST campus. The school's Breakwater Beacon, which serves as the entryway to the school's harbor, is in the distance.
    Saudi School Aims To Save The Planet
    The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST, is a huge research facility devoted to solving some of the major problems facing the planet. The brand new school -- it opened just this past fall -- rises from the desert like the secret research lab in a James Bond movie.
  • Students are drinking more coffee to stay awake.
    Young Adults Swapping Soda for The Super Buzz of Coffee
    If you live in a college town, you may have noticed campus coffee shops are still buzzing late into the evening.
  • A giant squid stars in this still image taken from the footage Edie Widder shot. It's the first-ever video of these giant squids, and it'll debut in a
    The Kraken Is Real: Scientist Films First Footage Of A Giant Squid
    For thousands of years, sailors have told stories of giant squids. In myth and cinema, the kraken was the most terrible of sea monsters. Now, it's been captured -- on a soon-to-be-seen video.
  • Joplin, Missouri post apocalyptic landscape after the April 2011 tornado outbreak that left a trail of destruction across the U.S.
    NOVA: Deadliest Tornadoes
    Airs Tuesday, May 19, 2020 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Wednesday, May 20 at 8 a.m. & Noon on KPBS 2 + KPBS Passport
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