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The San Diego Union-Tribune - Science

Scientist who hunts mysterious ghost particles in the Antarctic ice wins Nobel Prize for physics

15 hours ago

Magnitude 3.5 offshore earthquake produces mild shaking in San Diego County

1 day ago

Nobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists for shining light on brain activity

1 day ago

What is a Kelvin wave, what does it have to do with El Niño, and should we be worried?

4 days ago

'Epic ride': Skies open up to let SpaceX, NASA send Crew-13 to space

5 days ago

An endangered frog nursery in LA cares for hundreds of tadpoles until they're ready for the wild

7 days ago

UCSD professor who pioneered medicinal Trojan horses awarded prestigious MacArthur 'genius grant'

7 days ago

NASA ramps up support to get Boeing's astronaut capsule flying after Butch and Suni fiasco

8 days ago

SpaceX Starship makes it to orbit for the first time

8 days ago

Private spacecraft falls back to Earth after failing to rescue aging NASA telescope

11 days ago

Federal report concludes hydrogen sulfide spikes near Tijuana River pose public health hazard

13 days ago

Ancient fossils unearthed at Oceanside construction site could be a 'thunder beast'

14 days ago

Day and night get equal billing on Tuesday. A guide to the fall equinox

14 days ago

Cats want to talk to us. Scientists are trying to decipher the meow

20 days ago

NASA spacecraft discovers a huge new crater on the moon

20 days ago

The T. rex had a body temperature similar to our own, study finds

20 days ago

Trump administration has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants across every state, analysis shows

20 days ago

Tijuana River sewage crisis costs region up to $503 million a year, study finds

21 days ago

Has dark matter been found? Scientists analyze signal deep underground

21 days ago

Little Mercury may be shrinking faster than scientists expected

26 days ago

A stronger-than-normal El Nino alarms scientists over Galápagos wildlife and forests

27 days ago

Artemis II moonshot commander and pilot are hanging up their astronaut suits at NASA

27 days ago

What to know about Europe's push to compete in space

27 days ago

In North Carolina, a race is on to restore critical peatland before it dries up or is destroyed

27 days ago

Nuclear microreactors on Army bases? San Diego's General Atomics is in the mix

28 days ago

With $100 worth of supplies, this Chula Vista teen just won a prestigious international science award

29 days ago

Rescue satellite gets close to NASA's doomed telescope, even if it can't save it

1 month ago

Severe erosion leaves Carlsbad's Tamarack beach slim for Labor Day weekend

1 month ago

Trump administration stalled a survey of PFAS in wastewater, former EPA officials say

1 month ago

Scientists studying cockroach milk and nose-blowing win Ig Nobel prizes for quirky science

1 month ago

A pair of spacecraft draw closer to Mercury after nearly decade-long voyage

1 month ago

Scientists find a huge 10-sided wave pattern swirling in the clouds over Saturn's south pole

1 month ago

Keeping cool saves thousands of lives yearly, but at a cost of worsening global warming, experts say

1 month ago

NASA's cosmic mystery hunter launches atop SpaceX Falcon Heavy

1 month ago

Artemis II astronauts receive nation's highest space honor for their successful moonshot

1 month ago

SpaceX recovers Starship from the Indian Ocean a month after launch and is shipping it back to Texas

1 month ago

As super El Nino strengthens, study suggests that climate change is intensifying El Ninos

1 month ago

A near-total lunar eclipse will be visible Thursday night across San Diego County

1 month ago

Heat makes emergency rooms busier. Study shows which illness and injuries rise during hot spells

1 month ago

Humid air and warm seas making it hard for people across San Diego County to fall asleep

1 month ago

Earth is simmering in its hottest water temps on record, and that's bad for fish and us

1 month ago

Near-total lunar eclipse is coming up with the Americas in prime position

1 month ago

Astronomy and space sciences are soaring right now with kids. Keeping them engaged is much harder.

1 month ago

Rescue mission is called off for NASA's aging Swift space telescope

1 month ago

What beats seeing eclipses from space? Try the northern and southern lights

1 month ago

Telescope spies the fastest star in the Milky Way zipping around a black hole

1 month ago

Before-and-after NASA images show crater carved by a SpaceX rocket that slammed into the moon

1 month ago

Flight attendants and pilots have highest risk of dying from radiation-linked cancers, study says

1 month ago

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory using autonomous AI to quicken, broaden experimentation

1 month ago

'You see one snake, and it makes it worth it': Why SDSU students are tracking down rattlesnakes in Mission Trails

1 month ago

Radiation vest tested on NASA moonshot can cut astronauts' exposure in solar storms, study suggests

1 month ago

Looking to see the solar eclipse from North America? Here's where and when to catch a sliver

1 month ago

NASA plans to send UCSD graduate Deniz Burnham to International Space Station

1 month ago

Traditional plastic forks shed harmful microplastics. Plastic created from sugar is an alternative

1 month ago

How to spot the Perseid meteor shower, a summer light show that promises to dazzle

1 month ago

South Korean satellite captures before and after views of SpaceX rocket's moon crash

2 months ago

A Roomba for ticks? Researchers pilot remote-controlled tick prevention

2 months ago

Testing is underway on vaccines to intercept brewing colon cancer before it takes root

2 months ago

Marmots got money troubles: Research cuts lead scientists to OnlyFans

2 months ago

New images of the sun show its surface in the finest detail yet

2 months ago

Scientists are certain a wayward SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon as predicted

2 months ago

Gene-edited beagles may offer a future option for people with dog allergies

2 months ago

This summer isn't breaking heat records — yet. Wait until El Nino kicks in, scientists say

2 months ago

Sharks can hear you swimming from 100 feet away. That's not necessarily a bad thing

2 months ago

August's total solar eclipse will sweep over Spain, Iceland and Greenland

2 months ago

Big nuclear fusion project makes progress with components from San Diego's General Atomics

2 months ago

A discarded SpaceX rocket is on a high-speed collision course with the moon

2 months ago

Ancient mummy DNA provides scientific evidence that colonization brought smallpox to the Americas

2 months ago

Study suggests the threat of mold-associated illnesses may be underappreciated

2 months ago

Private mission to rescue NASA's aging telescope runs into its own trouble

2 months ago

The future of the UK's renowned Lovell radio telescope is in question after a funding cut

2 months ago

A US-Russian space crew lands safely in Kazakhstan after an 8-month stint on the ISS

2 months ago

Susumu Tonegawa, a UCSD graduate who won a Nobel Prize in medicine, dies at 86

2 months ago

Hurricane Genevieve likely to send 8- to 11-foot waves to San Diego County beaches

2 months ago

This Oceanside teen once suffered hundreds of seizures a day. Now he can walk thanks to an experimental drug.

2 months ago

American scientists see prosecutions as part of federal campaign against them

2 months ago

Why the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history is becoming more challenging

2 months ago

2,000 VOLUNTEERS JOIN A PAINSTAKING EFFORT TO RESTORE MASSIVE SKELETON OF PREHISTORIC PREDATOR

2 months ago

SpaceX launch sends Northrop Grumman's 2-handed rescue robot to space

2 months ago

Will vaccine boosters be necessary as measles spreads nationwide?

2 months ago

Renowned Salk Institute scientist resigns amid sexual misconduct investigation

2 months ago

SpaceX scrubs Starship launch attempt right as engines begin to light

2 months ago

What living in one of the world's hottest towns feels like

2 months ago

Faint new planet is revealed around a young star after a decade in hiding

2 months ago

An experimental Alzheimer's drug shows promise targeting a different brain protein, new study shows

2 months ago

US-Russian crew arrives at the International Space Station for 8-month mission

2 months ago

In a sweet discovery, astronomers find sugar lurking in the space between stars

2 months ago

Grants to help Scripps Research expand life-saving wastewater program

2 months ago

UCSD's Birch Aquarium drew record 603,670 guests over the past year

2 months ago

UC San Diego develops way to forecast when coastal landslides are imminent

2 months ago

New institute at UCSD aims to bring rigor to AI gold rush in health care

2 months ago

Pancreatic cancer breakthrough has big implications for early detection effort

3 months ago

Could a fertilizer breakthrough spark the next Green Revolution?

3 months ago

San Diego's General Atomics gets $20M to advance fusion energy in California

3 months ago

Last-minute launch problem delays satellite rescue mission for NASA

3 months ago

A marine heat wave caused seabird deaths off California. El Nino could worsen the die-off

3 months ago

Harvard professor with polarizing alien theories is picked to lead Trump administration UFO council

3 months ago

The largest digital camera ever built begins decade-long survey of the universe

3 months ago

After an earthquake, how long can trapped victims survive?

3 months ago

Greece bets on space technology to contain wildfires in a global first

1 month ago