Shark attacks returned to near-average levels in 2025 after a dip the previous year, according to the latest report from the Florida Museum of Natural History’s International Shark…
Read more When it comes to shark attacks, there’s a grim reason California stands out in the U.S.Los Angeles, Long Beach and San Diego are among the world’s least affordable cities for homebuyers, a recent report says. When the price of a regular home is…
Read more L.A. and Long Beach are among the least affordable cities in the world for homebuyersA spike in wild bird flu cases across Iowa has researchers watching migration patterns, testing carcasses, and swabbing beaks daily at the State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory in Ames.…
Read more Why bald eagles may hold clues in bird flu fightHigh school principals across California and nationwide say raids by Immigration, Customs and Enforcement have provoked a “climate of distress” among immigrant students who have been bullied on…
Read more High school bullying is up, attendance down as ICE raids sow ‘climate of distress,’ study saysIn Algeria, water shortages left faucets dry, prompting protesters to riot and set tires ablaze. In Gaza, as people waited for water at a community tap, an Israeli…
Read more Violent conflict over water hit a record last yearThe Cairo Geniza, the biggest collection of medieval Jewish documents in the world, has been the object of countless hours of study by scholars for more than a…
Read more AI opens vast trove of medieval Jewish records from the Cairo GenizaAn Orange County park was temporarily shut down Tuesday after two people reported mountain lion sightings the day before. In one of the incidents, a pair of cyclists…
Read more Mountain lion sightings prompt closure of Orange County parkIndustries and individuals around the world burned record amounts of oil, gas and coal last year, releasing more greenhouse gases than ever before, a group of leading scientists…
Read more Humanity is on path toward ‘climate chaos,’ scientists warnThe 2025 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists – a Briton, a Frenchman and an American – for their ground-breaking discoveries in…
Read more Nobel Prize in physics goes to trio of researchers for discoveries in quantum mechanicsEXPLAINS. WE’VE COLLECTED BLOOD SAMPLES, URINE SAMPLES, TOENAIL SAMPLES, AND WE’VE COLLECTED MANY OF THESE SAMPLES REPEATEDLY OVER TIME. THE NUMBER CATALOGED HERE IS IN THE MILLIONS SINCE…
Read more This health study has been collecting research samples for 50 years — Trump cut their fundingFor more than two decades, satellites have tracked the total amounts of water held in glaciers, ice sheets, lakes, rivers, soil and the world’s vast natural reservoirs underground…
Read more Humanity is rapidly depleting water and much of the world is getting drierDoctors may soon have a new way to treat high blood pressure, even among people for whom medicines haven’t worked well in the past.Baxdrostat, an experimental medicine made…
Read more There may soon be a new approach to treat hard-to-control high blood pressureHurricane Ian dramatically changed our coastlines, damaged homes and caused serious flooding when it struck Florida in 2022.Oregon State University researchers looked at Hurricane Ian’s impact on coastal…
Read more University researchers model storm surge study on Hurricane IanTheir medical research focuses on potentially lifesaving breakthroughs in cancer treatment, and developing tools to more easily diagnose debilitating diseases. Their studies in mathematics could make online systems…
Read more ‘A continual assault.’ How UCLA’s research faculty is grappling with Trump funding freezeGovernment scientists are warning consumers to stay away from raw milk, citing research showing “high viral load” of avian influenza in samples collected from infected cows — as…
Read more Despite H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in dairy cattle, raw milk enthusiasts are uncowedMore than 150 years ago, a San Francisco whaler noticed something about killer whales that scientists may be about to formally recognize — at least in name. Charles…
Read more Scientists say these killer whales are distinct species. It could save themThey are used to give plastic products their distinctive durability, bendability and sleek, nonstick surface. Yet some of these chemical additives have been tied to maladies such as…
Read more Harmful chemicals in plastics cost U.S. healthcare $250 billion a year, researchers sayForget what you were taught in elementary school about the supposed ravenous meat-eating grizzly bear: New research has found that California’s extinct bear was actually more of a…
Read more Were California's grizzlies really ravenous meat eaters? Not so much, new report showsIn San Francisco, a safety net is under construction at the Golden Gate Bridge to prevent future tragedies. In New York City, college officials opted for metal screens…
Read more As Disneyland reels from its third death in a year, what can be done to prevent suicides?Despite California’s efforts to stop the sale of flavored tobacco products, University of San Diego researchers say consumers have discovered a loophole: online shopping. In 2022, Senate Bill…
Read more California banned the sales of flavored tobacco products, but researchers say online sales have boomed
