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Maryam Pourebadi, UC San Diego Ph.D. student, works on software programming in a collaboratory in the new Franklin Antonio Hall, La Jolla, Calif., September 14, 2022.

Engineering the future in a new UC San Diego hub

UC San Diego opens the new Franklin Antonio Hall to make room and opportunities for engineering students.

Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann shared half of this year's Nobel Prize prize and Giorgio Parisi was awarded the other half.

The Nobel Prize in physics honors work on climate change and complex systems

The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for work on disorder, fluctuations and the ability to predict a changing climate.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Monday over the scope of the Clean Water Act.

The Supreme Court returns with a busy day of arguments, orders and a new justice

The court heard arguments in a major case pitting environmental regulators against property rights advocates backed by industries with a history of pollution.

A man wearing a Proud Boys shirt fights with protesters ahead of an event featuring far-right group Proud Boys' founder Gavin McInnes at Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pa., on Monday. The event was canceled by Penn State officials, who cited "the threat of escalating violence."

Penn State cancels Proud Boys founder's speech, citing the threat of violence

It was an abrupt reversal for the school, which had condemned the views of Gavin McInnes even as it said free speech required it to host the event. Protesters confronted each other and police.

Jalyn Hall plays Emmett Till and Danielle Deadwyler is his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, in <em>Till. </em>

Emmett Till is known for his death. A new film about his mother also honors his life

In 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy was lynched in Mississippi. Till tells the story of Mamie Till-Mobley, whose insistence on an open-casket funeral helped ignite the civil rights movement.

"The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On" is Franny Choi's third poetry collection.

Franny Choi's latest poetry finds hope for the future in our past apocalypses

Poet Franny Choi believes that for marginalized people, the apocalypse has already happened. In "The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On," she explores what it means to live in this dystopia.

Nothing this year brought home the dangers in private ownership of major social media platforms more than the capricious, often-destructive and regularly unpredictable actions of Twitter CEO Elon Musk. He is pictured above at Tesla's "Gigafactory" in Germany on March 22, 2022.

Six ways media took a big step backward in 2022

Elon Musk caused Twitter chaos, the streaming industry hit adolescence, late night TV lost its footing, there were lots of layoffs and some dispiriting indications of compassion fatigue.

People gather outside after a magnitude 7.6 earthquake was felt in Mexico City on Monday, Sept. 19. The quake hit at 1:05 p.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geologic Survey, which said the quake was centered near the boundary of Colima and Michoacan states.

A 7.6 magnitude earthquake shakes Mexico on the anniversary of two previous quakes

The earthquake shook Mexico's central Pacific coast on Monday, killing at least one person and setting off a seismic alarm in the rattled capital on the anniversary of two earlier devastating quakes.

FILE - In this March 18, 2020, file photo, the state Assembly Chambers sits empty at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. New political maps have upended the Legislature in 2022 and many new faces will be seen in both houses when it reconvenes after the November election.

San Bernardino County's secession measure will be on 2022 ballot

The county’s Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 on Wednesday to put the secession measure on the 2022 ballot.

Farmworkers near Fresno, Calif., pick paper trays of dried raisins off the ground and heap them onto a trailer in the final step of raisin harvest on Sept. 24, 2013.

A human-trafficking case exposed farmworker abuses. The government is promising change

In response to a letter from Sen. Jon Ossoff, Homeland Security said it plans to begin the process to create new rules to increase protections for farmworkers.

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