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Anthropologist Lynne Isbell was running through a glade in central Kenya in 1992 when something suddenly caused her to freeze in her tracks. "I stopped just in front of a cobra," she says. "It was raised with its hood spread out."

The Pacific Leatherback turtle faces extinction in 20 years if conservation efforts aren’t expanded. Scientists say the species survived the extinction of dinosaurs but is struggling to survive the impact of humans.

President Barack Obama is pushing the idea of free, high-quality preschool for every 4-year-old. Some San Diego County preschools are playing a role in defining what that might look like.

A court ruling on Friday means Arizona is no longer out of compliance with federal law in its instruction of English Language Learners.

There's new thinking about the effects of fat on our waistlines, and our hearts. And consensus is building that saturated fat isn't the demon we were once told to fear, especially compared to carbs.

Richard Barrera will take over as head of the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council while remaining on San Diego Unified's Board of Education.

Harnessing electromagnetic technology often used to find offshore oil, Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers now have a better sense of just how enormous an underwater volcano off the coast of Central America really is.

It's been one year since the triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and partial nuclear meltdown hit Japan. Are U.S. nuclear plants any safer? Are we any closer to being able to predict big earthquakes?

The labor market is continuing its recovery. The economy added 162,000 jobs in July, which pushed the unemployment rate to a four and a half year low.

The court limited presidential power to make appointments when the Senate isn't in session and narrowed a state's power to have protest-free zones outside abortion clinics. Here are the implications.