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San Diego State University and a handful of local partners are creating an education program for people going into biotechnology. They're getting started, thanks to a $4.95 million grant from the department of labor.

As part of our monthly segments on ethics in science and technology, we'll look at the controversy over researchers studying crime up close and personal.

One of the bright spots of San Diego's economy in recent years has been biotech sector. But the local life science industry has caught a cold in this recession. KPBS health reporter Tom Fudge looks at

An annual report by the California Healthcare Institute reveals there are more Californians employed in the biomedical industry than there are in the movies.

Researchers and the federal government are raising some tough questions about the way Arizona's schools educate students who don't speak, read or write English. Critics say the English immersion program is leaving thousands of children behind.

For many people, the election so far just hasn't been that interesting — and it might be even less so if Mitt Romney again rakes in the chips in South Carolina next week.

If all politics is local, all fundraising isn’t. Councilman Carl DeMaio headed north to Orange County last week to raise money for his mayoral campaign in San Diego.

The founders of Google, Facebook and Twitter are all male. Only 4 percent of one high-profile tech incubator's grants went to groups with a female founder. But the leader of a new startup accelerator for women says, "That next visionary is ... going to be wearing a skirt and a great pair of shoes."

Many plants listed as endangered species are available for sale online, a new study reports. This is encouraging for DIY environmentalists who want to save plants like the Florida torreya. But experts warn that moving plants to new habitats could create ecological problems and spread plant diseases.

The space shuttle may be gone, but it's not likely to be forgotten — not if Hollywood has anything to do with it. Over the course of the last 30 years, the shuttle has shown up repeatedly on the Silver Screen.