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The San Diego Union-Tribune - Science

Northern lights may be faintly visible across parts of the US this Thanksgiving

15 days ago

Trump chooses controversial Stanford professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH

16 days ago

UCSD ranks 10th on list of world's most influential researchers, slipping 3 spots

16 days ago

NASA's stuck astronauts hit 6 months in space. Just 2 more to go

7 days ago

California raw milk recalled after positive test for bird flu virus

17 days ago

US towns plunge into debates about fluoride in water

22 days ago

H5N1 bird flu detected in Bay Area child, California's first case confirmed outside farms

23 days ago

Darlene Shiley pledges record $75 million to University of San Diego for STEM

25 days ago

King tides have returned to the San Diego coast. But are they really as royal as their name implies?

27 days ago

Joanne Chory, Salk plant biologist who found ways to blunt impacts of climate change, dies at 69

28 days ago

The Leonid meteor shower peaks as the supermoon wanes

29 days ago

Can America heal after the election? Clergy, researchers tackle political anxiety and toxic polarization

29 days ago

When to catch the last supermoon of the year

1 month ago

In new term, Trump set to go after measures that are doing the most to fight climate change

1 month ago

San Diego's General Atomics passes a milestone. Can nuclear fusion energy become a reality?

1 month ago

Astronaut Matthew Dominick, a University of San Diego grad, returns to Earth from International Space Station

1 month ago

NASA astronaut hospitalized after SpaceX Crew-8 splashdown return off coast of Florida

1 month ago

October's supermoon pairs with a comet for a special nighttime spectacle

1 month ago

AI is having its Nobel moment. Do scientists need the tech industry to sustain it?

2 months ago

Climate change boosted Helene's deadly rain and wind and scientists say same is likely for Milton

2 months ago

Nobel Prize in chemistry honors 3 scientists who used AI to design proteins – life's building blocks

2 months ago

Looking up at the stars and seeing ourselves, San Diego artist wants to share astronomy with his community

2 months ago

UC San Diego buoys dropped in path of Hurricane Helene grab treasure trove of data

2 months ago

SDSU is betting $80 million it can become a key player in the lithium industry

2 months ago

UC San Diego gets $10 million to study how climate change affects marine animals

3 months ago

University of San Diego graduate will travel to International Space Station

3 months ago

Can dogs 'talk' to humans? A UC San Diego study offers an intriguing clue

3 months ago

Photos: August's supermoon is the first of four lunar spectacles

3 months ago

San Diego State University develops Midas touch in competing for research money

3 months ago

Snorkelers found a rare deep-sea fish off La Jolla. It took 'a community effort' to haul it to shore to study.

3 months ago

4.4 quake in Los Angeles lightly shakes northern San Diego County

4 months ago

Elegant terns make their home at small Mission Bay island

4 months ago

AI developed in La Jolla is being tested for 'instantaneous' cancer screening

4 months ago

Star Trek actors George Takei and John Cho to discuss science of storytelling at UCSD

4 months ago

Margaret Leinen, who guided Scripps Oceanography to new heights, will retire

4 months ago

San Diego County coastal waters turn unusually cool due to upwelling

4 months ago

Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 astronaut who walked on the moon, will speak in San Diego this month

5 months ago

Michael Smolens: As fire season heats up, so do controversial efforts to prepare for it

5 months ago

San Diego's life science sector contributed $56.6B to the regional economy, despite tight financing and layoffs

5 months ago

6 San Diego scientists elected to National Academy of Sciences, embellishing the region's standing as a research mecca

6 months ago

Illness took away her voice. AI created a replica she carries in her phone

6 months ago

NASA gives UCSD $10 million to develop ideas for using satellites to scrutinize Earth's changing climate

6 months ago

Researchers point powerful ultrasound technology at the next frontier - addiction

6 months ago

From earthquakes to early humans to the tiniest wildlife in local canyons, here's what 10 San Diego researchers are studying - and where

6 months ago

San Diego's life science industry has a new challenge: Too much space

6 months ago

A group of small earthquakes in Imperial Valley lightly shakes eastern San Diego County

6 months ago

Pharmaceutical giant Takeda is shutting down its San Diego office

6 months ago

San Diego's Cue Health had the first FDA-approved home COVID-19 test. Now the agency says to throw them out.

6 months ago

Illumina competitor Pacific Biosciences is closing its San Diego office, laying off workers

6 months ago

San Diego biotech news: Local maker of mRNA used in COVID-19 vaccine opens new facility

6 months ago

Ellen Ochoa, SDSU graduate and first Latina to travel in space, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

6 months ago

Prebys Foundation awards $7 million in grants to 14 San Diego researchers

6 months ago

In a tiny submersible, UCSD's Lisa Levin is about to descend 3 miles to learn 'how the ocean works, and how it can change'

6 months ago

This biotech startup got the biggest venture capital deal in San Diego so far this year

6 months ago

Hiring is hot for government and health care jobs. These sectors boosted San Diego's employment gains

6 months ago

San Diego biotech company making melanoma test patch cuts 56% of its workforce

4 months ago

Scripps Research reports progress toward creating vaccine against the harmful 'zombie' drug xylazine

6 months ago

What's polluting the oceans? UC San Diego to lead large study of contaminants' source, fate and health impacts

6 months ago

3.8 earthquake near Borrego Springs briefly shakes parts of San Diego County

6 months ago

Illumina gets two new executives as the San Diego biotech revamps its C-suite

6 months ago

As more than half the sun slips into eclipse, oohs and ahs fill the air across San Diego County

6 months ago

San Diego travelers view eclipse from 33,000 feet

6 months ago

More rocket launches could light up the San Diego sky as SpaceX builds out satellite network

6 months ago

Monday's partial solar eclipse in San Diego County will be marvelous - if the weather doesn't interfere

6 months ago

Bristol Myers Squibb to lay off hundreds of workers following its $4.8B merger with this San Diego biotech

6 months ago

3.5 earthquake near Lake Henshaw gently shakes parts of San Diego County

6 months ago

San Diego biotech news: Veteran life science execs raise $150M for cancer drug targeting hard-to-treat tumors

6 months ago

Vernor Vinge, visionary sci-fi author who helped foretell the rise of internet and AI, dies in La Jolla at 79

6 months ago

Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and other big pharmas are backing this San Diego biotech with $175M

6 months ago

San Diego's latest biotech, Contineum Therapeutics, files to go public

6 months ago

This downtown San Diego life science building is now 50% leased with latest tenant

6 months ago

Magnitude 3.3 earthquake off the La Jolla coast briefly shakes San Diego County

6 months ago

Startup Boundless Bio files to go public - San Diego's first life science IPO of 2024

6 months ago

La Jolla Institute reports promising results in cancer vaccine. 'I think it's a real innovation.'

6 months ago

San Diego's Dexcom gets first FDA clearance for an over-the-counter wearable continuous glucose monitor

6 months ago

248 miles above Earth, a University of San Diego graduate is about to experience life aboard the International Space Station

6 months ago

Salk Institute delays building $250 million sci-tech center by 3 years

6 months ago

Scripps Oceanography helps discover new species of tropical fish in Mexico's wondrous Revillagigedo Archipelago

6 months ago

Head to the beach at night: Enchanting neon-blue light is flashing in the surf from bioluminescent plankton

6 months ago

Soon they'll orbit the moon. First, these astronauts are working with the San Diego-based Navy team who'll welcome them back to Earth.

6 months ago

Salk Nobel laureate Roger Guillemin, whose insights helped lead to better ways to fight disease, dies at 100

6 months ago

SDSU breaks ground on a new lab in the Imperial Valley, and a new push in its research boom

6 months ago

UCSD graduate earns astronaut wings and could be named to NASA's lunar missions

6 months ago

Salk Institute's Ron Evans wins coveted Japan Prize for groundbreaking insights into human health

6 months ago

Get wrapped up in the 'ebb and flow' of art centering the wonders of kelp at UC San Diego exhibit

6 months ago

3.4 earthquake near Borrego Springs jostles parts of San Diego County

6 months ago

Scripps researchers' surprising find scanning the ocean floor: Thousands of WWII-era munitions and whale skeletons

6 months ago

Frozen Zoo makes breakthrough for critically endangered species with dozens of baby sea stars

6 months ago

International Air and Space Hall of Fame fundraiser

6 months ago

The truth about sleep trackers' capabilities

6 months ago

Human genome pioneer J. Craig Venter's tales of his seafaring adventures are thrilling. His new book about them is less so

6 months ago

The 'rainmaker' who took UCSD's engineering school to new heights, in everything from chip design to flying taxis, is retiring

6 months ago

Sickle cell treatment created with gene editing gets approval in U.K.

6 months ago

Don Walsh, San Diego naval officer who led historic dive to the ocean's deepest chasm, dies at 92

6 months ago

Sorry, Oxford and Yale. When it comes to influential scientists, you lag far behind UC San Diego, a relative newcomer

16 days ago

It's dark. The seas are pitching. And the Arctic winds are fierce. For UCSD oceanographer Jennifer MacKinnon, it's a moment for giving thanks.

6 months ago

Along the California coast, white sharks swim among us, often unnoticed

6 months ago

Is this handheld device the key to catching Alzheimer's? UCSD researcher's breakthrough could allow earlier diagnosis

6 months ago

Space rock, or a chunk of the moon? UCSD research yields new revelations about near-Earth asteroid

6 months ago

Time magazine names UC San Diego's wildfire spotter network one of the year's best inventions

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