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San Diego Public Library Screening: Rocket Science

The future is hard to see. But at least futurists give it a shot. We speak with science fiction novelist and futurist David Brin about the coming century, which he believes could be the era of “the a

Hands-on training and free classes are being offered for San Diegans who want jobs in the burgeoning bioenergy field.

After years in the Middle East, NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro has started the next chapter of her reporting life in Brazil. From her base in Sao Paulo, she'll focus on the country's environmental wealth, efforts to curb crime and the preparation for the World Cup and Olympic Games.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was late for work in August 1945, in Hiroshima, Japan, when he saw an airplane drop a silvery speck into the air. He survived the bombing only to make his way to Nagasaki three days later...just as that city was bombed, too.

Airs Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Scientists have mapped out, for the first time, the underwater path that some petrochemicals took after gushing from BP's oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. It's an important new piece in a huge scientific puzzle.

Scientists for the first time have mapped a plume of oil compounds that gushed from BP's broken well, extending for at least 22 miles. It's an important new piece in a huge puzzle: Where did as much as half of the spilled oil go?

Airs Wednesday, May 20 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

Another Year Wraps Up