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Scripps Research Vessel Returns After 10 Month Expedition

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography's research vessel Melville is scheduled to return to San Diego today after a 10-month expedition.

Annie Glenn, Rene Carpenter, Louise Shepard, Betty Grissom, Trudy Cooper and Marjorie Slayton attend a luncheon held in their honor by the American Newspaper Women's Club on April 27, 1962, in Washington, D.C. Mercury Seven wife Josephine Schirra is not pictured.

With Space-Bound Hubbies, 'Astrowives' Became 'First Reality Stars'

On April 9,1959, the U.S. introduced its first astronauts, and then launched their wives into the spotlight. In The Astronaut Wives Club, Lily Koppel looks at how seven women coped with the attention and anxiety that came with being married to the space race.

Both Sides In Sanford, Colbert Busch Race Hopeful In Last Hours

South Carolina's latest contribution to the American political stage: a House race between a former governor whose extramarital affair provided unlimited fodder for TV comedians, and a rookie candidate whose brother happens to be one of the them.

You'll be seeing more of this white foamy stuff on top of the beers of the future, thanks to a recent genetic discovery.

Raise A Toast To Building Better Beer Bubbles Through Chemistry

Scientists may have finally solved a problem that has plagued beer drinkers for ages: Insufficient foam resiliency.

Antelopes stand at alert at the presence of a human visitor in the sparsely populated Centennial Valley of Montana.

Saving One Species At The Expense Of Another

In Montana's Centennial Valley, conservationists made a grievous mistake while trying to save the trumpeter swan — they nearly wiped out Arctic grayling. Now they're looking for ways to make sure both species get a place on the ark.

George Lakoff is a linguist and cognitive scientist at UC Berkeley.

Liberal Label Gives Way To Progress(ive)

Left-of-center politicos lean toward “progressive” label to cast off liberal baggage.

More than 40 years ago, the EPA banned oil companies from releasing wastewater into the environment, but made an exception for the arid West. If livestock and wildlife can use the water, companies can release it. Cows like these grazing near a stream of waste on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming are supposedly the reason the EPA lets oil companies release their waste into the environment.

EPA Wants To Allow Continued Wastewater Dumping In Wyoming

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to let oil companies continue to dump polluted wastewater on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. This includes chemicals that companies add to the wells during hydraulic fracturing, an engineering practice that makes wells produce more oil.

The San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce's eighth annual trip to Mexico.

Political Watchers Say The Silence Of Insiders Enabled Filner

Most San Diegans can’t decide what they find more jolting about the sexual harassment scandal surrounding Mayor Bob Filner: the unsavory allegations; or the silence of those who knew.

A meadow covered in wildflowers in the Cleveland National Forest in San Diego County.

Feds Propose New Rules To Manage National Forests

The guidelines, known as a forest planning rule, will encourage forest restoration and watershed protection while creating opportunities for the timber industry and those who use the forest for recreation.

Drake, who had the top torrent downloaded in the U.S. in the first half of 2012, according to Musicmetric, poses at the MTV Video Music Awards in September.

Studying How, And What, We Download

Digital music sales are expected to reach record highs this year, and legal streaming services continue to gain in popularity. But unauthorized music file sharing is still going strong.

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