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With mesh backpacks slung over their shoulders, inmates walk to school at San Quentin State Prison. Inmates have the chance to earn an associate of arts degree here through the Prison University Project.

Why Aren't There More Higher Ed Programs Behind Bars?

San Quentin prison's university gets high marks. But few prisons in the nation are following the California model.

A cosplayer mashes up Donald Trump and the Joker, July 23. 2016.

Sob, Sob, Another Comic-Con Come And Gone

After four days of pop culture celebration, it's time to return to the real world

Testing Begins On An Experimental Zika Vaccine With Inactivated Virus

Scientists are racing to create a vaccine. The latest effort being tested uses inactivated virus, a technique that has been used successfully to fight other diseases, and human volunteers.

Several new studies show mixed results for men taking testosterone supplements.

Does Testosterone Improve Older Men's Health? It Depends

Several studies out this week show mixed results for testosterone supplements. They appear to protect bone density and strength and prevent anemia, but there is no effect on memory and cognition.

The San Diego Unified School District Board of Education building is shown in this photo, Sept. 15, 2017.

Group Is Challenging San Diego Unified's Elections Instead Of Its Incumbents

Incumbent school board trustees Kevin Beiser and Michael McQuary will more or less cruise into their third and second terms. But some community members are hoping to install a few speed bumps on the road to re-election in San Diego Unified.

The fiasco with a United passenger being dragged off a plane illustrates the problem of enticing people to voluntarily give up their seats.

The United Airlines Fiasco: How Game Theory Could Help

The fiasco with United dragging a passenger off its plane illustrates the problem of enticing people to voluntarily give up their seats. We talk to game theorists about some options.

An Intel advertisement on a Hewlett-Packard desktop computer in 2012.

California Is First State To Set Energy-Efficiency Limits For Computers

The California Energy Commission approved standards for the amount of energy computers and small servers can use when they are on, off, idling or asleep. The rules will roll out between 2018 and 2021.

Documentary On Man's 116-Mile Walk Around Salton Sea To Be Screened At Oceanside Film Fest

Randy Brown became the first person to hike the 116-mile perimeter of the Salton Sea in June 2015. Now the walk and the problems the Salton Sea is facing are the subject of a documentary that is set to debut at the Oceanside Film Festival on Monday.

Jamie Shupe, 52, was born male, married a woman and had a child. But Shupe felt neither male nor fully female. Now, an Oregon judge has allowed Shupe to identify as non-binary, believed to be a first in the United States.

Neither Male Nor Female: Oregon Resident Legally Recognized As Third Gender

A judge in Oregon has allowed 52-year-old Jamie Shupe, a retired Army tank mechanic, to identify as "non-binary" instead of male or female. It's widely believed to be the first such case in the U.S.

Marie Colvin, shown here in London in November 2010, was killed in Homs, Syria, on Feb. 22, 2012, along with photographer Remi Ochlik. She lost her left eye after being hit by shrapnel while covering the civil war in Sri Lanka in 2001.

Lawsuit Targets Syrian Regime In Journalist's Killing

Relatives of killed journalist Marie Colvin accuse the Syrian government of deliberately targeting her in the shelling of Homs in 2012.

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