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  • "Do I truly feel like hip-hop is dead? No, I don't," Questlove tells NPR. "However, I do believe that the landscape and the rules have changed. And some of its participants don't know it."
    In an industry of conformity, Questlove remains a hip-hop iconoclast
    In a new interview, Questlove reveals why Drake vs. Kendrick was so triggering, how he regained his passion for hip-hop and what to expect from the new Roots album.
  • A red diamondback rattlesnake is being held in a plastic tube for safety as researchers attach the ArcGIS accelerometer on it, March 13, 2024.
    New technology helping San Diego researchers study elusive rattlesnake
    They are among the first to use the technology to study snakes.
  • Results from a DNA sequencer used in the Human Genome Project.
    'All of Us' research project diversifies the storehouse of genetic knowledge
    The National Institutes of Health initiative that aims to make human genome research more inclusive reports its first results. Some 275 million new genetic variations have been identified.
  • Students engineer stick models at the Comic-Con Museum, Friday, during a free STEAM Fair that continues through the weekend, San Diego, Calif, July 21, 2023.
    Female superheroes offer free STEAM Fair for students at Comic-Con Museum this weekend
    The science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics fair is geared for younger comics fans.
  • The ERS-2 was launched in 1995 and retired in 2011. It fell back to Earth this week.
    A dead satellite crashed back to Earth. No worries, it landed in the Pacific
    The one-in-a-billion chance it could have hit somebody on the head didn't become a reality, as the European satellite reentered the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean between Alaska and Hawaii.
  • English peas grow in simulated Martian dirt.
    Can we grow veggies on Mars? Fly larvae and synthetic soil may hold the answer
    A Texas undergrad is investigating how to grow vegetables on Mars — and has cultivated test samples of English peas in simulated Martian soil, with fertilizer from fly larvae.
  • Many cities have older lead service lines connecting homes to the water system.
    Lead in the drinking water is still a problem in the U.S. — especially in Chicago
    The Windy City has the most lead pipes of any U.S. city. A study estimates that more than two-thirds of children there are exposed to lead in their home tap water.
  • Young anchovy collected and stored at the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigation library in San Diego on Dec. 4, 2023.
    San Diego researchers seek key to understanding volatile anchovy population shifts
    Newly published research in San Diego finds a link between the boom and bust population shifts of anchovies off the Southern California coast and the length of the food chain that nurtures them when they are young.
  • Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair
    For the first time since 2020, the Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair (GSDSEF) will be held in person at The Balboa Park Activity Center (BPAC) on March 15, 2023. The GSDSEF will include 338 students with 312 projects from San Diego and Imperial Counties in grades 6-12. Students that present the top projects will be awarded scholarships, educational experiences, cash prizes and be selected to attend additional prestigious fairs. These include Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge for middle school students, The California Science and Engineering Fair in April, and 6 high school students will be given all expense paid trips to attend The Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair held in Dallas, Texas. This is held in May and nearly $6 million in awards will be given out. In the past, $20,000+ dollars of award money has been given out to students, and numerous students have gone on to win top prizes at the state and international fairs. Judging will be held at the BPAC on March 15, 2023, however this will be closed to the public. The awards ceremony will be held at The Observatory North Park on March 16, 2023 at 6pm. The awards ceremony will be open to families of participants and we will be making a video for later viewing. The BPAC will be open to the public to view projects on Saturday, March 18, 2023 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. This is a great opportunity to be inspired and see what amazing projects these students have put together. Please join us then! For more information go to www.gsdsef.org
  • Karen King gathers a core sample from a mountain hemlock tree at Lassen National Volcanic Park in northern California. King is the lead author on a study that puts the 21st Western megadrought into historical context.
    How bad is the Western megadrought? Scientists look at tree rings to find context from history
    Dendrochronologists found that high temperatures in the 21st century make the current drought unprecedented compared to other dry periods around the Colorado River across the past 500 years.
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