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The UC San Diego Center for Healthy Aging invites you to the virtual symposium: Healthy Aging in the Era of Pandemics. This day-long event showcasing our latest research on aging will be held online on Friday, October 22 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.. Topics will include wisdom and social connections, healthy lifestyle and physical exercise, getting a good night’s sleep, technology for seniors, electronic psychotherapies, magnetic brain stimulation, and more! Explore the agenda here!Register at the symposium's official Eventbrite page. Zoom link will be sent to registered participants.This is a free event for all participants. For more information, please visit the UC San Diego Center for Healthy Aging site or contact the department by email at aging@ucsd.edu or by (858) 534-6299.

Uri Manor is able to see himself in the genetic science of what can cause deafness.

The United Nations and the European Union are among the groups that condemned Musk's sudden decision to suspend several journalists from the social media platform.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and tribal leaders are advocating for a congressional commission to examine the impacts of the federal Native American forced-assimilation policy.

Christopher McDougall and Eric Orton's new sequel to the pivotal 2009 running book "Born to Run" takes a step-by-step, training guide-style approach to transforming running form.

The state has $4.5 million in reparations to divide up among victims.

NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to throw it off course. The mission succeeded beyond expectations, officials said.

From the gallery: An art project inspired by Baja California & San Diego topography, representing the 5 topographic and climate regions: Beach(Coastal Prairie), Coastal, Inland, Mountain, and Dessert. Each zone provides flavors unique to the Baja California / SD region. The entire project is designed to go the bring experiences of our regional landscape to all our senses. The food is meant to be held, felt, smelled, and tasted. Music is made by the modules of sounds that directly simple from the climate zone. Augmented Reality is used to reflect new way of sharing food under the recent social norms. The exhibition can be viewed in the AAC Gallery at the Athenaeum Art Center (1951 Julian Avenue, San Diego, CA 92113) during opening hours, Tuesday and Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and every second Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m., during the Barrio Art Crawl, and by appointment. Performances: Friday, Dec. 10 from 6-8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 8 from 6-8 p.m. Objective: In this special time, I hope to create an art experience that can dedicate to transcend both the physical Border Wall between Mexico & the U.S. as well as the emotion of the recent pandemic experience.The immersive art is designed to help recognize the interconnections among us. The project: The ingredients are grown/sourced locally in both Baja California & San Diego. The ingredients of native plants are included to reflect different ethnic layers of an immigration society. In a multicultural society with values of freedom of speech and mutual respect, we need each other to reconnect with direct experiences and to leave out our preconceived ideologies. Our bodies serve as basic equipment to receive information. Food-Landscape encourages us to engage our direct experience network again, which can help us build common ground. Artists: Maggie Shen Marcos Fernandes Claire Guilbert Harikrishnan Varma Learn more here. Related links: Follow Athenaeum Art Center on Instagram

Just outside St. Louis, a cemetery for children sits on a hill. A wooden, weather-worn sign welcomes mourners to "Baby Land." The gravediggers who made the special spot work quietly in the shadows.

Policymakers have long grappled with how to handle experiments that might generate potentially dangerous viruses. Now, officials are considering whether oversight needs to be expanded.