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  • Dungeons & Dragons Bioblitz
    Do you like fantasy role-playing games, books, or movies? What about dressing up in costume or cosplay? Would you like to contribute to science and preserve and protect species? Join IF/THEN Ambassdors, Cosplay for Science, the LA Zoo, the CESAP apprentices, and crew from Forever Balboa Park for this pop-up event! Don’t forget to bring your water and your costume for some great adventuring! Friday, July 26, 2024 from Noon - 4 p.m. at Zoro Garden next to The Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park Visit: https://www.ecologikinstitute.org/events/dungeons-and-dragons-bioblitz-2024
  • President Donald Trump, from left, speaks as Masayoshi Son, SoftBank Group CEO, Larry Ellison, chairman of Oracle Corporation and chief technology officer, and Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO listen in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington.
    Q&A: OpenAI on rival DeepSeek and partnering with the government
    OpenAI — the company behind ChatGPT and a big part of Stargate — is partnering with the U.S. National Laboratories. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly spoke with OpenAI's Chris LeHane, here are the highlights.
  • Scientists in the Control Room at General Atomics celebrate and commemorate their 200,000th 'plasma shot' to test nuclear fusion. Aug 12, 2024
    General Atomics sees an end to the long road toward nuclear fusion
    The clean energy source we’ve been pursuing for decades is advancing with 200,000 “plasma shots” at General Atomics in San Diego, and the creation of an international fusion facility in France.
  • MCASD senior curator Jill Dawsey is shown standing near art from "For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability" in an undated photo. The works shown are Judith Scott's 1997 mixed media and string sculpture, "Untitled," and Jay DeFeo's 1989 series of graphite on paper, "Untitled (Reflections of Africa series)." Jill is wearing black pants and boots, a pink shirt, and a black cardigan. She has her hands tucked in her pockets, and she is looking at the camera and smiling slightly. She has brown hair and light skin.
    Art, disability and learning to hold on
    "For Dear Life" opens at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, featuring American art about disability, medicine and health from the 1960s until the onset of COVID-19. For co-curator Jill Dawsey, this one is personal.
  • Have a politically divided family? These tips help you talk across the dinner table
    A 2022 survey found growing numbers of Republicans and Democrats think the other side is immoral and dishonest. Psychology and neuroscience research offers tools to help bridge that divide.
  • Snow blankets the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Friday as a winter storm moves into the Atlanta area.
    Canceled flights, stranded cars, no power: Winter storm slams swath of U.S.
    Atlanta has seen nearly 1,000 flights grounded, while more than 34,000 Arkansans have lost power.
  • If you can't stop shaking your knee, don't try to stop yourself. "Embrace the fidget," says Katy Bowman, a biomechanist and the author of the book Rethink Your Position. That spontaneous movement can be your body's way of telling you it's time to move.
    Fidgeting at your desk? Your body may be trying to tell you something
    That spontaneous restless movement plays an important role in our health. Here's what to do the next time you find yourself bouncing your knee or clicking and unclicking your pen.
  • Professor Brent Seales and Seth Parker looking at papyri scans on a computer.
    SECRETS OF THE DEAD: The Herculaneum Scrolls
    Premieres Wednesday, Oct.16, 2024 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encore Sunday, Oct. 20 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2. Uncover the groundbreaking science being used by computer scientist Brent Seales as he attempts to be the first person in nearly 2,000 years to read inside hundreds of carbonized ancient scrolls found at the archaeological site of Herculaneum in Italy.
  • President Trump returns to the White House on Feb. 19 after spending the weekend and the first two days of the week in Florida.
    From Ukraine to DOGE: Here's everything that happened with Trump this week
    NPR rounds up what happened this week, the fourth week of President Trump's administration, and takes a look at some developments that have been overlooked.
  • 'Blue Gold: The Art and Science of Indigo'
    Indigo—a varied plant family that grows worldwide and the deep, blue dye it produces—has a long and multifaceted history of cultivation, production, and distribution. "Blue Gold" combines science, craft, and history to explore this color’s complex past and present. Indigo’s beauty and ubiquity have eclipsed the unpleasant realities of its growth and manufacture, including hard labor and pollution, and its association with colonialism and slavery. As a pigment, indigo has been assigned protective properties, healing powers, and dangerous qualities that have shaped its uses in craft and the arts. The exhibition highlights the roles of botany, chemistry, medicine, ecology, and economics in indigo cultivation. Contemporary craftspeople and artists working with indigo, such as Laura Kina and Porfirio Gutierrez, address questions about the sustainability of indigo, its problematic legacies, and technological alternatives to manual processing. Closed Mondays / Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, & Sunday from 10 to 5 p.m. / Fridays from 10 to 8 p.m. Mingei International Museum on Facebook / Instagram
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