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University of San Diego researchers plan to use a portion of new grant money to find ways to clean the air and reduce petroleum use. KPBS reporter Ed Joyce has more.

The pilot starts with a plane landing in Boston. Everyone on board is dead and their flesh has been turned to gelatinous goo. A multi-agency task force is assigned to investigate. There we meet FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham (

The San Diego Unified School District board is facing some difficult choices as it discusses how to cut potentially $141 million from the budget for next school year. Superintendent Bill Kowba, Board President Richard Barrera and new Trustee Scott Barnett join us to discuss the district's financial challenges.

Nearly 40 percent of San Diegans don’t earn enough money to live here, according to a new report. San Diego is the 11th most expensive city in the United States. The County’s unemployment rate is at

A new study shows that the rate of abortion in the U.S. has dropped to its lowest level since the mid-1970s. The survey, conducted by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, also found a rise in the use of the abortion pill mifepristone, also known as RU-486.

From the deadly serious subject of overcrowding in California prisons to the banning of toys in Happy Meals: there's no subject too big or too small for our Legal Update.

Rice University has developed the world's darkest material, made from millions of tiny vertical tubes of carbon. Pulickel Ajayan, who helped lead the project, says the material isn't perfect, but it's "pretty dark." It approaches the elusive ideal black, which would absorb all colors of light and reflect none.

San Diego school district officials have decided which charter schools will get a piece of district-owned property in time for next school year. KPBS Reporter Ana Tintocalis has more.

In a matter of weeks, South African leader Thabo Mbeki was ousted and replaced by Kgalema Motlanthe, a relative newcomer. The change marks the biggest political upheaval in South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994.

NPR's Farai Chideya speaks with Abraham McLaughlin, African correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, about Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and the country's stature within the region following recent parliamentary elections.