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  • Brain Balance Healthy Screen Time Clinic: Tools for Parents to Feel Confident
    Join Screen Time Clinic Founder Nicole Rawson to better understand the risks of screen time and its effects on brain development. Join us to learn the science behind how screen time affects children and teens, impacts emotional development, and what experts have to say about it. Learn the science behind how screen time affects children and teens differently than adults, impacts on emotional development, and what experts have to say. Discover the risk factors for media overstimulation that causes low focus stamina, behavior problems, and academic struggles — and how to improve these areas! Set your children up for success with clear guidelines when it comes to screen time using these best practices. Receive a FREE guide with over 20 printables to help keep your family on track with healthy screen habits (for participants only) (value $19.95). Click here to register!
  • A study released by the U.S. Geological Survey on Wednesday estimates that at least 45% of U.S. tap water could be contaminated with at least one form of PFAS, which could have harmful health effects.
    'Forever chemicals' could be in nearly half of U.S. tap water, a federal study finds
    Here's what to do if you're worried about what's in your faucet.
  • The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, is seen in the background of the shallow Kakhovka Reservoir. Water levels in the reservoir have been falling rapidly after a critical dam collapsed.
    A Ukrainian nuclear plant is facing a water shortage
    The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant used a large reservoir for cooling water. Now that reservoir is rapidly draining.
  • Kame Ogito, 89, gathers seaweed at low tide in Motobu, Okinawa, Japan. Seaweed is part of the plant-based, low-calorie diet that makes Okinawans some of the longest-lived people in the world.
    7 habits to live a healthier life, inspired by the world's longest-lived communities
    Dan Buettner has spent decades exploring the lifestyles and diets of people in remote places where living to 100 is more common. Here are life-enhancing habits from these "blue zones."
  • Cultural burning in a Northern California forest.
    CHANGING PLANET: Season 2
    Premieres Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encores Sunday, April 23 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV and 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. In its second year, CHANGING PLANET revisits six of our planet's most vulnerable ecosystems and catches up with the truly inspiring people introduced in the first season: scientists and local experts fighting to safeguard their communities and wildlife, and charting the progress of their game-changing environmental projects.
  • In Huntington's disease, proteins form toxic clumps that kill brain cells.
    Huntington's spreads like 'fire in the brain.' Scientists say they've found the spark
    Diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's spread through the brain like a forest fire. A new study suggests how the fire starts.
  • This photo, taken in New York on Wednesday, July 5, 2023, show the logo for Meta's new app Threads, right, and that of Twitter. Meta is poised to unveil the new app that appears to mimic Twitter — a direct challenge to the social media platform owned by Elon Musk.
    10 million sign up for Meta's Twitter rival app, Threads
    Threads is billed as a text-based version of Meta's photo-sharing app Instagram that the company says provides "a new, separate space for real-time updates and public conversations."
  • Customers arrive for the dinner service at Wool Growers, a 67-year-old Basque restaurant in House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's district. The Republican leader is facing opposition from within his own party, but back home, some constituents are praising his performance under tough circumstances.
    Kevin McCarthy survived his first political battle. This is how his hometown reacted
    The debt ceiling debate ultimately ended with a deal between congressional Republicans and the White House. In Bakersfield, Calif., Speaker Kevin McCarthy's constituents watched the debate unfold.
  • San Diego weekend arts events: A singing devil, books and Black theater
    This weekend in the arts: Sarina Dahlan's "Preset" book launch (and Filipino desserts) at UCSD; Black Arts Festival at The Old Globe; Singing with the Devil at The Shell; "Head Over Heels" at Diversionary Theatre; Poetry, Contrabass and Wendell Kling at The Athenaeum; Adam Deutsch and Manuel Paul López at The Book Catapult; and the North Park Music Fest.
  • Above, an unprocessed apple. Ultraprocessed foods are made from industrially manufactured ingredients that have been extracted from foods, processed, then reassembled to create shelf-stable, tasty and convenient meals.
    What we know about the health risks of ultraprocessed foods
    Sure, they're tasty, but packaged snacks and meals can be packed with sugar, salt and a list of unpronounceable ingredients. So what are they doing to your health? Scientists are trying to find out.
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