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Julianna Domingo

Julianna Domingo is a producer for KPBS Midday Edition.

Angela Reyes Melo, 56, waits outside her car before driving to pick up supplies at a food bank on October 28, 2022, in San Diego. Reyes has been living with her son in a loaned car for the past four months.

Poverty drops in California but only because of child tax credit, COVID relief funds

If you haven’t filed for a child tax credit, now’s the time to do it. A deadline approaches.

The new UC San Diego outdoor amphitheater is lit up at dusk against a dark blue sky. A curved shell-like cover provides a partial roof for the concrete stage. Concrete and wooden bench seating forms a segmented semi-circle around the stage.

A new performance and connections hub at UC San Diego

UC San Diego's new outdoor amphitheater opens this week with a string of performances, including Death Cab for Cutie, a "Blacktronika" festival, contemporary percussion, Día de los Muertos, drag, giant puppets and "Purple Rain."

Children at the Cuyamaca Outdoor School in Descanso, Calif. build a snowman. Feb. 23, 2022.

Students enjoying camp get a snowy surprise in Descanso

Students who were enjoying sixth grade camp at Cuyamaca Outdoor School got a snowy surprise. For some, it was their first time playing in snow.

A young elephant seal snoozes on land in this May 11, 2016 photo.

Study: Elephant seals at sea sleep just two hours a day

A biologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography found that elephant seals take multiple 10-minute naps underwater during their nearly 10-month foraging trips out to sea.

Astronomy Adventures Camp

Looking for something exciting, fun and out of this world this fall break? Join us for Astronomy Adventures! Students in grades 1-3 will enjoy a variety of hands-on astronomy-themed activities and exploration in our full-day camp.

Luca Pollack sits next to the drawings he made of his spacecraft, Fortitude, in his home in Carlsbad. March 22, 2023

Carlsbad third grader imagines NASA’s next voyage of discovery

NASA’s Power to Explore essay contest gets kids to plan future space missions. Luca wants to go to Jupiter’s moon, Europa.

From left: a Nats fan, a Barbie, a sports figure

What is there a shortage of? Find out in the NPR news quiz (hint: it's not smoke)

From Barbie to Messi to Rishi Sunak, a lot happened this week. How well were you paying attention?

In a hot room, you're told to play a vicious game. Will heat make you behave badly?

The study assigned subjects to one of two rooms: 68 degrees or a sweat-inducing 86 degrees. They played a computer game that can bring out the worst in human nature. What are the real-world lessons?

Conception's chief scientific officer, Pablo Hurtado, examines very early primordial germ cells under a microscope in a company lab in Berkeley, California.

Startup aims to make lab-grown human eggs, transforming options for creating families

New companies are working to commercialize in vitro gametogenesis, or IVG, a technology that could make human eggs and sperm in the lab from any cell in the body.

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