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When the HMS Bounty set sail in 1787, Captain William Bligh had only his instincts to safely complete a journey from England to the South Pacific island of Tahiti. Last week, Robin Walbridge, captain of a replica of Bligh's ship of mutiny fame had every modern weather forecasting resource to plan a voyage from New London, Conn., to St. Petersburg, Fla.

A year-and-a-half since a 7.2 magnitude earthquake destroyed parts of Mexicali on Mexico's northern border, the U.S. and Mexico will join efforts in earthquake research and preparedness.

Airs Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

UC San Diego researchers take on a challenge from the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

You can go to almost any cubic foot of ocean, stream, coral, backyard, ice shelves even, and if you look, you'll find scores of little animals and plants busy making a living. But here's a place — a beautiful, bountiful place — that when you look close — is a desert.

The field of GOP challengers narrowed a day after the caucuses as Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann said she is ending her 2012 presidential bid. Meanwhile, Texas Gov. Rick Perry went home to regroup after his poor showing in the Hawkeye State.

Airs Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

States in this country are becoming like an unhappy couple. They've always had their differences, but their arguments have gotten so chronic that they're hardly talking to each other.

Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Economics, speaks to host Michele Norris. Ostrom, a 76-year-old professor of political science at Indiana University, shares the $1.4 million prize with another American — Oliver Williamson of the University of California, Berkeley — for their work on economic governance. Ostrum was cited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for her research into how natural resources or "common property can be successfully managed by user associations."

The Occupy San Diego protest is taking part in a nationwide day of action today with several rallies. A local professor believes the Occupiers are better off not organizing.