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  • 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!
  • Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by the DART spacecraft 11 seconds before impact.
    NASA says its asteroid defense test was a success
    NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to throw it off course. The mission succeeded beyond expectations, officials said.
  • Moonlight Pulido poses for a portrait Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022, in Los Angeles. California is paying reparations to victims, mostly women, who were either forcibly or coercively sterilized by the government. Pulido was sterilized while incarcerated in 2005.
    California seeks sterilization victims to pay reparations
    The state has $4.5 million in reparations to divide up among victims.
  • Symposium Of The UCSD Center For Healthy Aging
    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.
  • A special section called "Baby Land" at Sunset Gardens of Memory cemetery in Millstadt, Illinois, was created for the graves of children.
    When gun violence ends young lives, these men prepare the graves
    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.
  • This image shows purified particles of mpox virus, formerly called monkeypox. Viruses like these can be genetically altered in the lab in ways that might make them more dangerous.
    When is it OK to make germs worse in a lab? It's a more relevant question than ever
    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.
  • Twin sisters Tripti and Pari, who lost both their parents to COVID-19, play at a relative's home in Bhopal, India on May 11, 2021. A new study estimates that 8 million kids lost a parent or primary caregiver to a pandemic-related cause.
    Nearly 8 million kids lost a parent or primary caregiver to the pandemic
    A new study finds numbers far higher than previously thought. India has the greatest number of kids affected. The U.S. has 250,000 kids in this category but lags behind in aid for bereaved families.
  • Manfred Steiner, 89, recently earned his Ph.D. in physics from Brown University.
    He always wanted a Ph.D. in physics. He finally earned it at 89
    "I always had this dream: Gee, someday I would like to become a physicist," said Manfred Steiner. But after World War II, he followed his family's advice to become a doctor.
  • Most residents in San Diego should have received this message from ShakeAlert on Thursday, June 26, 2019.
    Northern California earthquake puts early warning system to the test
    Various phone apps use ShakeAlert data to notify users.
  • Christina Summers, 37, holds three of her children, 8-year-old twins Elijah and Emmani, and her 6-year-old daughter, Madison. Summers' husband, James Summers, died last October from COVID. She is now raising their nine children on her own.
    COVID took many in the prime of life, leaving families to pick up the pieces
    In the U.S., people of color have been more likely to die at younger ages, especially among lower-income communities. That's had a ripple effect on finances, education and physical and mental health.
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