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UCSD Receives Second-Highest Number Of Applications In UC System

UC San Diego topped the 100,000 mark for applications for the fall 2016 quarter, the university announced Monday. Only UCLA received more.

This chart published in Science shows the quality of new businesses by region in California, Feb. 5, 2015.

Where San Diego Startups Are Strongest, According To Science

Scientists have ranked the best regions in California for entrepreneurship, and their results suggest San Diego startups remain strongest in the suburbs.

The levees below the Oroville Dam were damaged by heavy floodwaters this winter and many need repairs.

Where Levees Fail In California, Nature Can Step In To Nurture Rivers

After devastating floods, California is looking to spend billions on dams and levees. Some are calling for a new approach to flood control, one that mimics nature instead of trying to contain it.

The "Green Giant" mechanical tea harvester, one of only a few in the world, does the manual work of 500 people.

Yes, America Has A Working Tea Plantation. We Visited It

The only commercial tea plantation in North America is located on Wadmalaw Island, S.C. It makes tea from bushes descended from plants first brought here in the 1700s. We chat with its tea taster.

Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump looks on during the 58th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017.

"Dear President Trump:" Southern Californians Share Their Hopes

Listen to five Southern Californians with different political perspectives share their thoughts as Donald Trump becomes the country's 45th president.

Eating: it's what I was born to do apparently!

Can Changing When And What We Eat Help Outwit Disease?

I'm fasting intermittently as part of a research study, to see if changing my gut microbiome affects my multiple sclerosis. But maybe living on Peanut Chews isn't the best strategy.

Data collected between Nov. 17-28 by NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, or AIM, spacecraft Antarctica covered in glowing electric blue due to the start of noctilucent, or night-shining, cloud season.

The Electric Blue Polar Cloud Season Came Early This Year

Noctilucent clouds, high-altitude clouds that appear to glow in the sky at night, usually show up in the Southern Hemisphere summer. Satellite images showed them covering Antarctica in early November.

What's The Leading Cause Of Wildfires In The U.S.? Humans

More than 8 in 10 fires are started by people. Researchers say humans are not only causing the vast majority of wildfires, they're extending the normal fire season around the U.S. by three months.

Texas Bufkin Christian Academy, a private, for-profit religious primary school in Milwaukee, is the lowest-performing voucher school in the city, state officials say.

Lessons From The Nation's Oldest Voucher Program

Milwaukee's voucher program serves some 28,000 students. Most of them are African-American and come from low-income families.

The official Twitter account of Badlands National Park in South Dakota was the first to tweet climate change facts in defiance of the gag order placed on the Environmental Protection Agency.

Rogue National Park Accounts Emerge On Twitter Amid Social Media Gag Orders

Countering the Trump administration's restrictions on public communications, unofficial Twitter accounts for the National Park Service have been tweeting facts about climate change.

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