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A heart cockle shell has been found to let in light through a design that resembles fiber optic cables. This could inspire everything from helping coral survive to designing new camera lenses.

Solitude is transforming American society. Whether it’s a desire to be alone or involuntary loneliness, people are spending more time by themselves. And that has ramifications on democracy.

Tanya Aguiñiga is the 2024 Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence at the Department of Visual Arts, UC San Diego. Tanya Aguiñiga was born in 1978 in San Diego, California, and raised in Tijuana, Mexico. An artist and craftsperson, Aguiñiga works with traditional craft materials like natural fibers and collaborates with other artists and activists to create sculptures, installations, performances, and community-based art projects. Drawing on her upbringing as a binational citizen, who crossed the border daily from Tijuana to San Diego for school, Aguiñiga’s work speaks of the artist’s experience of her divided identity and aspires to tell the larger and often invisible stories of the transnational community. She founded AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite Sides), an ongoing series of projects that provides a platform for binational artists. She was recently awarded the Latinx Art Forum: Latinx Artist Fellowship (2022), Heinz Award (2021), and an Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities (2018). Her work is in the collection of the Hammer Museum, LACMA, Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt and Renwick Museums, and the Museum of Art and Design among others. Visit: https://visarts.ucsd.edu/news-events/20241101_tanyaaguiniga.html Tanya Aguiñiga on Instagram and Facebook

Music by Virtuoso Pianist/Composers for Piano and Cello Victor Asuncion, pianist Paul Tseng, cellist Music by virtuoso pianist/composers Beethoven and Rachmaninoff, who wrote for and performed with virtuoso cellists Internationally acclaimed pianist Victor Asuncion teams up with San Diego Music Society’s artistic director and cellist Paul Tseng, for a concert featuring music for piano and cello, featuring the epic sonatas for piano and cello by Beethoven and Rachmaninoff. Victor Asuncion Hailed by The Washington Post for his “poised and imaginative playing,” Filipino-American pianist Victor Santiago Asuncion has appeared in concert halls in Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, Spain, Turkey and the USA, as a recitalist and concerto soloist. He played his orchestral debut at the age of 18 with the Manila Chamber Orchestra, and his New York recital debut in Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in 1999. In addition, he has worked with conductors including Sergio Esmilla, Enrique Batiz, Mei Ann Chen, Zeev Dorman, Arthur Weisberg, Corrick Brown, David Loebel, Leon Fleisher, Michael Stern, Jordan Tang, and Bobby McFerrin. His recordings include the complete Sonatas of L. van Beethoven with cellist Tobias Werner, Sonatas by Shostakovich and Rachmaninoff with cellist Joseph Johnson, the Rachmaninoff Sonata with the cellist Evan Drachman, and the Chopin and Grieg Sonatas, also with cellist Evan Drachman. He is featured in the award winning recording “Songs My Father Taught Me” with Lynn Harrell, produced by Louise Frank and WFMT-Chicago. Mr. Asuncion is the Founder, and Artistic and Board Director of FilAm Music Foundation, a non-profit foundation that is dedicated to promoting Filipino classical musicians through scholarship, and performance. Paul Tseng Paul Tseng (cello) has performed as a soloist, recitalist, orchestral, and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and South Africa in concert halls such as Avery Fischer Hall, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Cairo Royal Opera House in Egypt, The Royal Cultural Center in Amman, Jordan. Paul is the second cellist ever to be awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Peabody Conservatory (Johns Hopkins University). There he specialized in the cello music of Prokofiev and studied with Stephen Kates, Samuel Sanders, and performed with Earl Carlys and Ruth Inglefield. He has served as principal cellist of the Millbrook Orchestra in WV, the Gettysburg Symphony, and assistant principal cellist of the Maryland Symphony under the baton of Barry Tuckwell. He also holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from the Julliard School. He has held various faculty positions in New York, Maryland, West Virginia, New York, and Washington DC. In recent years, he has performed cello concertos by Elgar and Dvorak with the Mira Costa Orchestra and concertized as recitalist and chamber musician throughout Southern California. Paul is a founding member of the Logos Trio and the artistic director of the San Diego Music Society, which presents the Music by the Sea Concert Series in Encinitas, and the Intimate Classics Concert Series at the California Center for the Arts Visit: https://artcenter.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/instances/a0FUe000000vHXBMA2

Fentanyl overdoses occur from ingesting the synthetic opioid. But popular culture has misrepresented the risks to first responders.

A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warned against using Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.

In 2019, Louisiana's fourth graders ranked 50th in the country for reading. Now, they're 16th. Here's how the state, and one rural district, pulled it off.

Employers in the horse-racing industry rely heavily on workers with H-2B visas and are closely watching changes as they brace for staffing needs next season.

When the last season left off, Deborah was offered her second chance at late night — and Ava resorted to blackmail. It's hard not to feel like the new season continues to take these two in circles of fight and reconciliation.

Trump is kicking off his second term with a flurry of executive actions. Here's a look at the three main types — orders, proclamations and memorandums — and how they typically work.