News | AI is having its Nobel moment. Do scientists need the tech industry to sustain it? By Associated Press October 13, 2024 at 5:12 p.m. AI’s moment as a commercial blockbuster has also reached the pinnacles of scientific recognition.
National News | Climate change boosted Helene’s deadly rain and wind and scientists say same is likely for Milton By Associated Press October 9, 2024 at 10:47 a.m. Scientists say human-caused climate change boosted the rainfall of deadly Hurricane Helene by about 10%...
World News | Nobel Prize in chemistry honors 3 scientists who used AI to design proteins – life’s building blocks By Associated Press October 9, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. Their work used advanced technologies, including machine learning, and holds the potential to transform how...
Looking up at the stars and seeing ourselves, San Diego artist wants to share astronomy with his community By Lisa Deaderick October 5, 2024 at 6:42 a.m. Dawud Hasan is one of five artists whose work is featured in the “Art for...
Science | UC San Diego buoys dropped in path of Hurricane Helene grab treasure trove of data By Gary Robbins September 27, 2024 at 4:14 p.m. Scientists say the data will help them to produce better hurricane forecast models.
SUBSCRIBER ONLY Science | SDSU is betting $80 million it can become a key player in the lithium industry By Gary Robbins September 20, 2024 at 11:28 a.m. The university is putting a lot on the line in the Imperial Valley, where the...
Science | UC San Diego gets $10 million to study how climate change affects marine animals By Gary Robbins September 10, 2024 at 2:37 p.m. Scientists will look especially closely at how such warming impacts brain development
Science | University of San Diego graduate will travel to International Space Station By Gary Robbins August 29, 2024 at 4:10 p.m. Jonny Kim, who earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of San Diego, will spend...
Science | Can dogs ‘talk’ to humans? A UC San Diego study offers an intriguing clue By Gary Robbins August 30, 2024 at 9:35 a.m. They're quite smart, highly social and very expressive. Does this mean that dogs might have...
Science | Photos: August’s supermoon is the first of four lunar spectacles By Associated Press August 20, 2024 at 2:22 p.m. During a supermoon, the full moon inches a little closer than usual to Earth. A...
Education | San Diego State University develops Midas touch in competing for research money By Gary Robbins August 20, 2024 at 8:53 p.m. The campus pulled in a record $230 million last year to study subjects as diverse...
Snorkelers found a rare deep-sea fish off La Jolla. It took ‘a community effort’ to haul it to shore to study. By Maura Fox August 19, 2024 at 7:10 a.m. The roughly 12-foot-long oarfish — a serpent-like fish commonly found at sea depths of more...
Science | 4.4 quake in Los Angeles lightly shakes northern San Diego County By Gary Robbins August 12, 2024 at 1:45 p.m. The temblor happened close to the separate Hollywood and Raymond fault systems.
Environment | Elegant terns make their home at small Mission Bay island By Ana Ramirez August 12, 2024 at 4:24 p.m. On a summer afternoon joggers, bicyclists and several people with big-brimmed hats, a few looking...
La Jolla Light | AI developed in La Jolla is being tested for ‘instantaneous’ cancer screening By Ashley Mackin Solomon August 4, 2024 at 6:47 p.m. Researchers at UC San Diego say the new artificial intelligence program is designed to save...
Star Trek actors George Takei and John Cho to discuss science of storytelling at UCSD By Gary Robbins July 17, 2024 at 2:05 p.m. The event is tied to this year's Comic-Con convention, which begins next week in downtown...
Science | Margaret Leinen, who guided Scripps Oceanography to new heights, will retire By Gary Robbins July 16, 2024 at 3:06 p.m. The 77-year-old scientist will step down from her post as director of the UC San...
San Diego County coastal waters turn unusually cool due to upwelling By Gary Robbins July 14, 2024 at 5:31 a.m. The wind-driven chill, which is known as upwelling, is most common in the spring. But...
Science | Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 astronaut who walked on the moon, will speak in San Diego this month By Gary Robbins July 9, 2024 at 6:39 p.m. The San Diego Air and Space Museum is celebrating the 55th anniversary of the moon...
Politics | Michael Smolens: As fire season heats up, so do controversial efforts to prepare for it By Michael Smolens June 26, 2024 at 2:08 p.m. Projections for hotter-than-usual summer leads to warnings about a tough wildfire season.
San Diego’s life science sector contributed $56.6B to the regional economy, despite tight financing and layoffs By Natallie Rocha June 17, 2024 at 2:46 p.m. Hiring in San Diego’s life science sector was down last year as a result of...
News | 6 San Diego scientists elected to National Academy of Sciences, embellishing the region’s standing as a research mecca By Gary Robbins June 7, 2024 at 8:09 p.m. Six San Diego researchers have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the elite...
Things to do | Illness took away her voice. AI created a replica she carries in her phone By Associated Press June 12, 2024 at 11:07 p.m. PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The voice Alexis "Lexi" Bogan had before last summer was exuberant. She loved to...
News | NASA gives UCSD $10 million to develop ideas for using satellites to scrutinize Earth’s changing climate By Gary Robbins May 29, 2024 at 6:52 p.m. NASA is giving UC San Diego $10 million to develop competitive proposals for using satellites...
Things to do | Researchers point powerful ultrasound technology at the next frontier – addiction By David Ovalle May 28, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Nestled inside a giant MRI machine, the woman wears a helmet outfitted with special...
News | From earthquakes to early humans to the tiniest wildlife in local canyons, here’s what 10 San Diego researchers are studying – and where By Gary Robbins May 29, 2024 at 2:49 a.m. Got a good atlas? You'll need one to understand just how far-flung San Diego scientists...
Business | San Diego’s life science industry has a new challenge: Too much space By Natallie Rocha June 16, 2024 at 11:11 a.m. San Diego's labs and life science offices hit record vacancy this year.
News | A group of small earthquakes in Imperial Valley lightly shakes eastern San Diego County By Gary Robbins May 20, 2024 at 9:12 p.m. A series of small earthquakes broke out on the Brawley fault system in the Imperial...
Business | Pharmaceutical giant Takeda is shutting down its San Diego office By Natallie Rocha June 10, 2024 at 11:50 a.m. Pharmaceutical giant Takeda is shutting down its research and development hub in San Diego that...
Business | San Diego’s Cue Health had the first FDA-approved home COVID-19 test. Now the agency says to throw them out. By Natallie Rocha May 17, 2024 at 1:35 a.m. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration told consumers Monday to throw out any at-home COVID-19...
Business | Illumina competitor Pacific Biosciences is closing its San Diego office, laying off workers By Natallie Rocha May 11, 2024 at 12:09 a.m. Genome sequencing company Pacific Biosciences, a competitor of Illumina, is shutting down its San Diego...
Business | San Diego biotech news: Local maker of mRNA used in COVID-19 vaccine opens new facility By Natallie Rocha May 8, 2024 at 10:27 p.m. San Diego-based TriLink BioTechnologies went from working with a few local biotechs in 2019 to...
News | Ellen Ochoa, SDSU graduate and first Latina to travel in space, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom By Gary Robbins May 3, 2024 at 11:57 p.m. Astronaut Ellen Ochoa, the San Diego State University graduate who became the first Latina to...
News | Prebys Foundation awards $7 million in grants to 14 San Diego researchers By Paul Sisson May 6, 2024 at 11:51 p.m. SAN DIEGO — Fourteen San Diego researchers will each receive $500,000 grants as part of a new...
News | 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’ By Gary Robbins May 4, 2024 at 12:28 a.m. It is cold, dark and cramped. But Lisa Levin will be beaming later this month...
Business | This biotech startup got the biggest venture capital deal in San Diego so far this year By Natallie Rocha April 29, 2024 at 12:13 a.m. Funding deals for San Diego startups got off to a slow start this year, but...
Business | Hiring is hot for government and health care jobs. These sectors boosted San Diego’s employment gains By Natallie Rocha April 22, 2024 at 6:46 p.m. Local government hiring fueled San Diego County's job growth last month and nudged the unemployment...
Business | San Diego biotech company making melanoma test patch cuts 56% of its workforce By Natallie Rocha April 26, 2024 at 1:22 a.m. DermTech, the San Diego-based company that developed a noninvasive skin sticker to detect melanoma, is...
News | Scripps Research reports progress toward creating vaccine against the harmful ‘zombie’ drug xylazine By Gary Robbins April 18, 2024 at 7:13 p.m. Scripps Research in La Jolla says it has taken a promising step toward developing a...
News | What’s polluting the oceans? UC San Diego to lead large study of contaminants’ source, fate and health impacts By Gary Robbins April 16, 2024 at 11:37 p.m. UC San Diego will lead a major new study of the source, fate and possible...
News | 3.8 earthquake near Borrego Springs briefly shakes parts of San Diego County By Gary Robbins April 14, 2024 at 2:35 p.m. A magnitude 3.8 earthquake occurred at 9:08 a.m. Saturday about 8 miles north-northeast of Borrego...
Business | Illumina gets two new executives as the San Diego biotech revamps its C-suite By Natallie Rocha April 10, 2024 at 11:26 p.m. Illumina is getting a new chief financial officer, the latest major leadership change within the...
News | As more than half the sun slips into eclipse, oohs and ahs fill the air across San Diego County By Gary Robbins April 9, 2024 at 4:15 a.m. At 11:11 a.m. Monday — the exact moment a partial solar eclipse peaked above San...
News | San Diego travelers view eclipse from 33,000 feet By K.C. Alfred April 9, 2024 at 4:52 a.m. ABOARD FLIGHT AS322 — As tens of thousands of people flocked to cities from Texas...
News | More rocket launches could light up the San Diego sky as SpaceX builds out satellite network By Phil Diehl April 6, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. The spectacular sight of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaking across the San Diego County...
Things to do | Monday’s partial solar eclipse in San Diego County will be marvelous – if the weather doesn’t interfere By Gary Robbins April 5, 2024 at 11:10 p.m. Don't feel bad if you're unable to dart off to another part of the country...
Business | Bristol Myers Squibb to lay off hundreds of workers following its $4.8B merger with this San Diego biotech By Natallie Rocha April 3, 2024 at 11:07 p.m. Following its $4.8 billion acquisition of local biotech Mirati Therapeutics, Bristol Myers Squibb is laying...
News | 3.5 earthquake near Lake Henshaw gently shakes parts of San Diego County By Gary Robbins April 1, 2024 at 6:54 p.m. A magnitude 3.5 earthquake occurred at 4:12 p.m. Sunday about 4 miles east of Lake...
Business | San Diego biotech news: Veteran life science execs raise $150M for cancer drug targeting hard-to-treat tumors By Natallie Rocha March 30, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. Veteran life science execs lead new company to big fundraising roundThe day that Athena Countouriotis,...
Things to do | Vernor Vinge, visionary sci-fi author who helped foretell the rise of internet and AI, dies in La Jolla at 79 By Gary Robbins June 13, 2024 at 12:42 a.m. Vernor Vinge, the San Diego State University professor whose award-winning science fiction novels helped foretell...
Business | Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and other big pharmas are backing this San Diego biotech with $175M By Natallie Rocha March 20, 2024 at 11:05 p.m. A San Diego biotech is working on therapies that could tackle life-altering conditions, like autoimmune...
Business | San Diego’s latest biotech, Contineum Therapeutics, files to go public By Natallie Rocha March 18, 2024 at 10:23 p.m. Contineum Therapeutics has filed to go public, becoming San Diego’s second biotech IPO of 2024.The...
Business | This downtown San Diego life science building is now 50% leased with latest tenant By Natallie Rocha March 13, 2024 at 8:57 p.m. One San Diego building is filling up with biotechnology tenants as the push to make...
News | Magnitude 3.3 earthquake off the La Jolla coast briefly shakes San Diego County By Gary Robbins March 8, 2024 at 9:55 p.m. A magnitude 3.3 earthquake occurred 11 miles west-southwest of La Jolla at 1:09 p.m. Friday,...
Business | Startup Boundless Bio files to go public – San Diego’s first life science IPO of 2024 By Natallie Rocha March 7, 2024 at 10:31 p.m. Local life science startup Boundless Bio filed Wednesday to go public — the first San...
News | La Jolla Institute reports promising results in cancer vaccine. ‘I think it’s a real innovation.’ By Paul Sisson March 6, 2024 at 7:48 p.m. A yearslong effort to take the guesswork out of creating personalized cancer vaccines advanced significantly...
Business | San Diego’s Dexcom gets first FDA clearance for an over-the-counter wearable continuous glucose monitor By Natallie Rocha March 6, 2024 at 8:59 p.m. San Diego device maker Dexcom has received the first FDA clearance for a continuous glucose...
News | 248 miles above Earth, a University of San Diego graduate is about to experience life aboard the International Space Station By Gary Robbins March 5, 2024 at 9:51 p.m. A University of San Diego graduate experienced the raw, wild sensation of space travel late...
News | Salk Institute delays building $250 million sci-tech center by 3 years By Gary Robbins March 4, 2024 at 9:31 p.m. SAN DIEGO — The Salk Institute in La Jolla has unexpectedly decided to delay construction of a...
News | Scripps Oceanography helps discover new species of tropical fish in Mexico’s wondrous Revillagigedo Archipelago By Gary Robbins March 1, 2024 at 6:40 a.m. A colorful and previously unknown species of tropical fish has been discovered off Mexico's Pacific...
News | Head to the beach at night: Enchanting neon-blue light is flashing in the surf from bioluminescent plankton By Gary Robbins February 28, 2024 at 11:13 p.m. The nighttime surf at many San Diego County beaches is once again flashing pretty neon-blue...
News | 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. By Gary Robbins February 26, 2024 at 6:40 p.m. The NASA-led crew that's scheduled to fly around the moon next year will hold a...
News | Salk Nobel laureate Roger Guillemin, whose insights helped lead to better ways to fight disease, dies at 100 By Gary Robbins February 25, 2024 at 8:45 p.m. Roger Guillemin, whose insights about brain hormones broadly helped lead to better ways to fight...
News | SDSU breaks ground on a new lab in the Imperial Valley, and a new push in its research boom By Gary Robbins February 9, 2024 at 9:46 p.m. San Diego State University broke ground Friday on the Imperial Valley Sciences and Engineering Laboratories...
News | UCSD graduate earns astronaut wings and could be named to NASA’s lunar missions By Gary Robbins February 9, 2024 at 9:00 p.m. UC San Diego graduate Deniz Burnham has finished two years of basic training as a...
News | Salk Institute’s Ron Evans wins coveted Japan Prize for groundbreaking insights into human health By Gary Robbins January 23, 2024 at 7:12 p.m. Ronald Evans, the Salk Institute biologist whose insights about hormones have helped scientists develop more...
Opinion | Get wrapped up in the ‘ebb and flow’ of art centering the wonders of kelp at UC San Diego exhibit By Lisa Deaderick January 21, 2024 at 2:01 p.m. There’s something about freediving into the giant kelp forests off the local coastline that elicits...
News | 3.4 earthquake near Borrego Springs jostles parts of San Diego County By Gary Robbins January 20, 2024 at 9:34 p.m. A magnitude 3.4 earthquake occurred at 9:44 a.m. Saturday roughly 9 miles east-northeast of Borrego...
Local News | Scripps researchers’ surprising find scanning the ocean floor: Thousands of WWII-era munitions and whale skeletons By Maura Fox January 8, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. New research from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has revealed numerous discarded World War II-era...
Local News | Frozen Zoo makes breakthrough for critically endangered species with dozens of baby sea stars By Emily Alvarenga December 26, 2023 at 9:51 p.m. SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance announced its reproductive sciences team has made a...
Things to do | International Air and Space Hall of Fame fundraiser By Staff Report December 20, 2023 at 7:35 p.m. The International Air & Space Hall of Fame Gala was held recently at the San...
Things to do | The truth about sleep trackers’ capabilities By Markham Heid December 12, 2023 at 1:31 p.m. Shawn McCall, 48, a personal trainer in Waterford, Mich., started tracking his sleep almost six...
Things to do | Human genome pioneer J. Craig Venter’s tales of his seafaring adventures are thrilling. His new book about them is less so By Gary Robbins December 10, 2023 at 2:01 p.m. In between bites of eggs Benedict, genome guru Craig Venter paused recently to share a...
News | The ‘rainmaker’ who took UCSD’s engineering school to new heights, in everything from chip design to flying taxis, is retiring By Gary Robbins December 8, 2023 at 9:11 p.m. Albert Pisano, who has raised nearly $400 million as dean of engineering at UC San...
Things to do | Sickle cell treatment created with gene editing gets approval in U.K. By San Diego Union-Tribune December 5, 2023 at 11:04 p.m. Regulators in Britain have approved the first treatment derived from CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing method....
News | Don Walsh, San Diego naval officer who led historic dive to the ocean’s deepest chasm, dies at 92 By Gary Robbins November 30, 2023 at 9:29 p.m. Don Walsh, the San Diego naval officer who squeezed into a tiny submersible with scientist...
News | Sorry, Oxford and Yale. When it comes to influential scientists, you lag far behind UC San Diego, a relative newcomer By Gary Robbins November 27, 2023 at 6:06 p.m. UC San Diego has 71 of the most widely-cited researchers in science, medicine, engineering and...
News | 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. By Gary Robbins November 23, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. She loves Thanksgiving and will try to grab some holiday food. But Jennifer MacKinnon will...
News | Along the California coast, white sharks swim among us, often unnoticed By Ana Ramirez November 21, 2023 at 12:04 a.m. In waters just outside of San Diego, a shiver of juvenile white sharks has established...
News | Is this handheld device the key to catching Alzheimer’s? UCSD researcher’s breakthrough could allow earlier diagnosis By Gary Robbins November 18, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. A hand-held device that UC San Diego developed to detect COVID-19 with great accuracy also...
News | Space rock, or a chunk of the moon? UCSD research yields new revelations about near-Earth asteroid By Gary Robbins October 25, 2023 at 5:49 p.m. A near-Earth asteroid discovered less than a decade ago might be ejecta from the moon,...
News | Time magazine names UC San Diego’s wildfire spotter network one of the year’s best inventions By Gary Robbins October 25, 2023 at 10:06 p.m. ALERTCalifornia, the network of live cameras that UC San Diego developed and placed throughout San...
Local News | Birch Aquarium successfully spawns three critically endangered sunflower sea stars By City News Service October 19, 2023 at 9:12 p.m. SAN DIEGO — The Birch Aquarium announced Wednesday it was able to successfully spawn three critically endangered...
Local News | Rare solar eclipse breaks through San Diego’s cloudy skies, delighting throngs of watchers at Balboa Park By Lori Weisberg October 14, 2023 at 10:52 p.m. BALBOA PARK — As the time arrived Saturday morning for the start of a rare annular eclipse...
Local News | Can frozen DNA help species survive extinction? San Diego’s Frozen Zoo, conservationists partner to put biodiversity banking on the map By Emily Alvarenga October 12, 2023 at 11:48 p.m. For nearly half a century, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has been taking the...
Things to do | San Diego County will experience a rare ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse Saturday – if the marine layer burns off By Gary Robbins October 13, 2023 at 12:17 a.m. The moon will briefly blot out much of the sun on Saturday morning as seen...
News | Birch Aquarium welcomes ravioli-sized Big Skate babies By City News Service October 4, 2023 at 11:18 p.m. SAN DIEGO — The Birch Aquarium welcomed some new guests this week — ravioli-sized newborn Big Skates,...
News | International Space Station will be easy to see from San Diego County this week By Gary Robbins October 3, 2023 at 4:16 p.m. The International Space Station should be easy to see several nights this week from San...
Things to do | March to the penguins: Little blue penguins lead UC San Diego’s Birch Aquarium to record attendance By Gary Robbins September 20, 2023 at 4:04 p.m. A new habitat featuring the smallest species of penguins in the world has proven immensely...
News | A spooky video of Antarctica briefly made a UC San Diego scientist a TikTok star. Can he come up with another hit? By Gary Robbins September 18, 2023 at 12:52 a.m. A text message popped up on Austin Carter's iPhone last year that left him slack-jawed...
News | The surf is sparkling with neon light. Here’s where to see bioluminescence at San Diego County beaches. By Gary Robbins September 13, 2023 at 1:46 p.m. Beachgoers are once again fanning out along the San Diego County coastline at night to...
News | 3.1 earthquake near Palomar Observatory briefly shakes San Diego County By Gary Robbins September 8, 2023 at 3:10 p.m. A magnitude 3.1 earthquake occurred at 10:59 p.m. Thursday about 10 miles south-southeast of Palomar...
News | Video: Killer whales collectively attack dolphins off coast of San Diego By Gary Robbins September 7, 2023 at 9:17 p.m. Killer whales, which frequently hunt in packs, attacked and feasted on Risso dolphins Saturday about...
News | Study by La Jolla scientists shows how strong-swimming plankton create red tides By Ashley Mackin-Solomon September 5, 2023 at 10:29 p.m. LA JOLLA — Validating a 50-year-old hypothesis, scientists at the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution...
News | Why do leopard sharks flash their white bellies at La Jolla Shores? Student researchers are on the case. By Ana Ramirez September 5, 2023 at 10:21 p.m. It’s no secret to most San Diegans that leopard sharks come each summer to warm...
News | UC San Diego badly needs housing. How about a village for 6,000 students? By Gary Robbins September 7, 2023 at 8:22 p.m. It won't completely quench UC San Diego's thirst for campus housing. But an idea has...
News | Rolling in money and talent, San Diego State University is emerging as a major player in science By Gary Robbins August 28, 2023 at 2:17 p.m. With joy and fascination, chemist Greg Holland examined a delicate, squiggly spider in his lab...
Things to do | A broad genetic test saved one newborn’s life. Research suggests it could help millions of others By Laura Ungar September 4, 2023 at 11:21 p.m. CINCINNATI — Brynn Schulte nearly died twice when she was a baby, at one point needing emergency...
News | Can AI Detect Wildfires Faster Than Humans? California Is Trying to Find Out. By Thomas Fuller August 24, 2023 at 3:36 p.m. MARCH AIR RESERVE BASE, Calif. — For years, firefighters in California have relied on a...
Things to do | Turning down the volume on ‘food noise’ By Dani Blum August 22, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. Until she started taking the weight loss drug Wegovy, Staci Klemmer’s days revolved around food....