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The demand for majors related to environmental jobs is climbing at UC San Diego. What is driving the growing interest?

This weekend can be spent inside, experiencing the art of dance, outside, at the Crew Classic, or checking out some music, photography, film, and everything in between. Culture Lust contributor Jocelyn Maggard lists some options.

The Hubble Space Telescope is about to get a long-awaited makeover, as NASA astronauts head out on a final mission to repair the aging but beloved observatory. Space Shuttle Atlantis blasted off Monday just after 2 p.m. ET.

Dr. Hiroo Kanamori is a world-known physicist who developed the current system used to measure earthquakes. He explains how early detection mechanisms can save lives and keep people out of harm's way.

The war-on-terror thriller and the sci-fi sensation received nine Academy Awards nominations each, including best picture and director for Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow and her ex-husband James Cameron.

There once was a man who liked to spend his time inhaling a lot of different gases. He was looking for a cure to tuberculosis. Some of the gases burned like heck, but one made him feel sublime. But doctors said, "No, thank you; pain is a good thing."

A group of hydrologists, ecologists and engineers analyzed years of research and found that mountaintop removal as a way to mine coal is more damaging to the environment and public health than the law should permit. They're urging federal and state authorities to halt or alter the practice.

Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 12 p.m. on KPBS TV

Two San Diego High School teams will compete in a solar-powered boat competition for the first time. The schools get started on the Solar Cup Saturday.

A Russian court has cleared the way for the government to sell off land used by a world-renowned fruit research center outside St. Petersburg. Scientists say losing the facility means losing seeds and plants that exist nowhere else. But a Russian agency says much of the research center occupies weed-choked fields that would be the perfect spot for new houses.