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....
Things to do | Getting started in therapy and making the most out of your sessions By San Diego Union-Tribune August 22, 2023 at 12:15 p.m. Amid the height of the pandemic, while friends announced pregnancies and career changes, and others...
Things to do | Weight-loss drugs may increase risks of anesthesia By Jonel Aleccia August 22, 2023 at 12:11 p.m. Patients who take blockbuster drugs like Wegovy or Ozempic for weight loss may face life-threatening...
News | La Jolla’s Sanford Burnham Prebys adding six scientists in hopes of launching new era of collaboration By Ashley Mackin-Solomon August 21, 2023 at 11:49 p.m. LA JOLLA — Seven months after local billionaire T. Denny Sanford gave La Jolla-based Sanford Burnham Prebys...
News | Scripps Oceanography retires seagoing research platform after 61 years By Ashley Mackin-Solomon August 16, 2023 at 12:50 a.m. LA JOLLA — When Bruce Appelgate was in fourth grade, he read a book featuring world explorers....
Business | Nuclear fusion milestone repeated; San Diego’s General Atomics with the assist By Rob Nikolewski August 14, 2023 at 9:16 p.m. About eight months after the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory created "net energy" in a nuclear...
Business | Carlsbad’s Viasat still can’t say what’s wrong with its $700M Internet satellite By Natallie Rocha August 10, 2023 at 7:47 p.m. Viasat told investors Wednesday that it is continuing to investigate what happened to the antenna...
News | Attention, night owls: The Perseid meteor shower will peak in the skies above San Diego County this weekend By Gary Robbins August 9, 2023 at 10:38 p.m. The annual Perseid meteor shower will peak this weekend above San Diego County with mostly...
News | Actor William Shatner will be inducted into San Diego Air & Space Museum hall of fame By Gary Robbins August 8, 2023 at 9:02 p.m. Actor William Shatner will be inducted into the San Diego Air & Space Museum's International...
Entertainment | Isn’t data beautiful? UCSD prize makes scientists into artists By Cameron Fozi August 8, 2023 at 9:51 p.m. Dozens of researchers at UC San Diego are now also artists with a new —...
News | Navy safely recovers mock space capsule off San Diego in big step toward sending humans to the moon By Gary Robbins August 2, 2023 at 10:43 p.m. NASA's quest to send astronauts to the moon in a tiny spacecraft that later returns...
News | Waves along parts of California coast are getting bigger and badder due to climate change, new study says By Gary Robbins August 2, 2023 at 1:46 a.m. The average height of winter waves along parts of the California coast has increased by...
Things to do | When mosquitoes make you a meal, it’s time to tone down your attraction By Dani Blum August 1, 2023 at 7:39 p.m. It is a vexing truth that some people will be bitten by mosquitoes way more...
News | The next ‘supermoon’ will be visible from San Diego County at the end of August By Gary Robbins August 2, 2023 at 1:38 p.m. Two "supermoons" will be visible from San Diego County in August, the first which will...
Things to do | A sweet paradox: Sugar feeds cancer, yet all cells need it for fuel By San Diego Union-Tribune July 25, 2023 at 12:31 p.m. During the eight years Stacy Shawhan has worked as an oncology dietitian, she has heard...
Entertainment | Comic-Con 2023: JPL’s Europa Clipper will carry your name to Jupiter By Diya Chacko July 23, 2023 at 11:02 p.m. Attendees at Comic-Con International in San Diego this week got the opportunity to write their...
News | Contrail from rocket launch might be visible Tuesday night from San Diego County By Gary Robbins July 19, 2023 at 1:12 p.m. The contrail of a Falcon 9 rocket might be visible from San Diego County Tuesday...
News | Scripps Oceanography scientist studies toxic algae bloom with plans to create prediction model By Ashley Mackin-Solomon July 10, 2023 at 12:30 p.m. As an algae bloom off the California coast creates a neurotoxin called domoic acid that...
News | The mini-sub that carried the first humans to the Titanic is in San Diego looking for fresh discoveries By Gary Robbins July 7, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. Alvin, the famous research submarine that revolutionized science's understanding of the deep oceans and took...
Local News | Sick, disoriented and aggressive sea lions are washing ashore. Here’s why, and here’s how San Diegans can help By Emily Alvarenga July 3, 2023 at 3:41 p.m. Algae blooming along the California coast — so toxic that it’s causing fatal brain damage...