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  • Artist's illustration of what it looks like when a supermassive black hole "spaghettifies" a star.
    A black hole is releasing some strange burps, baffling scientists
    Astronomers were stunned to find that the black hole was emitting energy, two years after it pulled apart a star that had come too close.
  • This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak.
    LA County Health Dept., CDC confirm first death in county due to monkeypox
    The person "was severely immunocompromised and had been hospitalized," the health department said in a statement.
  • Junior Science Club: Brain Games
    Fleet Science Center is hosting a Brain Games for the Junior Science Club. Join us on the third Saturday of each month to investigate exciting science topics. Sessions are filled with new challenges, hands-on activities and interaction with local scientists. Throughout the year, kids will explore an array of fields including biology, chemistry, engineering, environmental science, physics, robotics and much more! This month’s topic is Brain Games. What goes on inside your head? Learn about the different regions of the brain and explore how the human brain processes optical illusions. Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022 @9:30a.m. and @11:00a.m. Price: Members $13; Nonmembers $15.
  • Selina Williams and her son Jayden, 11, travel the country in their retrofitted van. She home-schools him and will now use a Chromebook laptop they checked out from the Lincoln Acres county library, National City, Calif., Sept. 20, 2022.
    San Diego County Library offers laptops to help close the digital divide
    The San Diego County Library system obtained 7,000 Chromebook laptops and Wi-Fi hot spot devices available to check out with a county library card.
  • Farmworker Xochitl Nunez, labor leader Dolores Huerta and UFW President Teresa Romero lead a pilgrimage of thousands to the Capitol to urge Governor Gavin Newsom to sign AB2183, that would allow farmworkers to unionize by mail or card check. Sept. 26 2022.
    California governor approves farmworker unionization law
    California Gov. Gavin Newsom has approved one of the most contentious bills before him this year.
  • FTC Chairperson Lina Khan, speaking at a Senate Committee hearing in 2021. Last week, the FTC moved closer to modernizing a rule that requires funeral businesses to provide prices to consumers when they visit or call.
    Funeral homes could soon have to post prices online
    A 2017 NPR investigation found that many funeral businesses failed to disclose prices to consumers. The FTC may modernize the existing rule to make such information more transparent.
  • "I was much less self-assured now that I was a patient myself," says neurosurgeon Henry Marsh. "I suddenly felt much less certain about how I'd been [as a doctor], how I'd handled patients, how I'd spoken to them."
    After cancer diagnosis, a neurosurgeon sees life, death and his career in a new way
    Dr. Henry Marsh felt comfortable in hospitals — until he was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. "I was much less self-assured now that I was a patient myself," he says. His book is And Finally.
  • COVID drove families apart for Thanksgiving. They won't let inflation do the same.
    Despite inflation, this year is on track for the third-busiest Thanksgiving travel season in over two decades, according to AAA.
  • What life is like for those living in the Russian-occupied city of Kherson
    A potential battle for the Russian-occupied city of Kherson could change the trajectory of the Ukrainian war. For those stuck there, life is hard and dangerous.
  • Weekend Science Club: Chemistry of Cosmetics
    The Fleet Science Center offers Science Clubs for grades 5-8! Each session will be filled with new challenges, hands-on activities that can done using materials found in your home and has challenges for students of all ages. Through this program students will explore an array of fields including biology, chemistry, engineering, environmental science, physics, robotics and much more! This month, become a cosmetic chemist by performing scientific tests on product samples and mix up your own concoction to take home! Science Club for Girls is from 10 to 12 p.m. Our second Science Club is open for all Scientists from 1p.m. to 3p.m. Date: Jan. 9, 2022 Time: 10am and 1 pm Location: Fleet Science Center Cost: $13-$15 For more information on this event please visit HERE!
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