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  • All Aboard! A New Exciting Exhibition 'Lands' at the Fleet Science Center
    Exhibition Opening Saturday, Feb 12, 2022 Travel the world with the Fleet Science Center in "Going Places." Through engaging interactives, explore how different modes of transportation have shaped society. Discover how gravity, wind, currents, waves, friction and changing landscapes are overcome by the ingenious designs of travel technology. This engaging and interactive exhibition allows you to get hands-on with a multitude of challenging interactives: Fly a plane on a flight simulator Ride a hovercraft Race your friend on a recumbent bicycle Learn to fly a drone And more! In "Going Places," you are the driver, giving you the chance to experience transportation in ways you never dreamed possible!
  • Scanning electron micrograph of <em data-stringify-type="italic">Salmonella typhi</em>, the parasite that causes typhoid fever (in yellow-green, attached to another bacterial cell.
    Typhoid mutated to beat antibiotics. Science is learning how to beat those strains
    The ancient disease is still a killer. And even though there are new drugs, there's a growing rate of antibiotic-resistance cases. Here's a look at the latest strategies to tame typhoid.
  • Books recommended to read by the San Diego County Library and San Diego Public Library.
    Local libraries recommend LGBTQ+ books for all ages
    This year’s Pride is taking place in a contentious political climate. In San Diego County, controversy erupted leading up to Pride month about raising Pride flags and in parts of the country efforts to ban books continue.
  • UC San Diego engineering professor Sheng Xu holds a small cardiac imaging monitor that can be worn on the chest to examine the heart. Feb 2, 2023
    Wearable patch can measure a heart’s performance
    UCSD scientists designed a wearable patch they said can connect to a laptop to show you the functions of your heart.
  • A group of students at the University of Minnesota celebrate their induction into medical school. The U.S. has disproportionately few Black and Hispanic doctors. Some of the barriers to entering the profession start before even getting in to medical school, recent research finds, including financial pressures and racism.
    Diversity in medicine can save lives. Here's why there aren't more doctors of color
    The U.S. desperately needs more Black and Hispanic doctors, research shows. But financial pressures and discrimination can keep young people from even applying to med school.
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    Florida's abortion laws protect a pregnant person's life, but not for mental health
    If a pregnant person is struggling with mental health and considering suicide, several states' laws, including Florida's, specifically say the "life of the mother" exception does not apply to them.
  • In this April 13, 2017 photo provided by NASA, technicians lift the mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope using a crane at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The telescope is designed to peer back so far that scientists will get a glimpse of the dawn of the universe about 13.7 billion years ago and zoom in on closer cosmic objects with sharper focus.
    NASA's Webb telescope has discovered its first exoplanet
    The exoplanet was found using a satellite and spectrography. It has a similar size as Earth, but is much hotter and completes its orbit around its star in two days.
  • A sign displays a warning about contaminated water at Imperial Beach, Jan. 31, 2020.
    New research shows dirty ocean water is fouling air in Imperial Beach
    San Diego researchers say ocean waves shore are throwing bacteria tainted aerosols into the air at shore.
  • Matthew Beard as Max Liebermann in VIENNA BLOOD: Season 1.
    VIENNA BLOOD: Season 1
    Tuesdays, Aug. 30 - Oct. 4, 2022 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand with KPBS Passport! 1900s Vienna is a hotbed of philosophy, science and art. Dr. Max Liebermann’s extraordinary skills of perception and Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt’s determination lead them to some of the city’s most mysterious and deadly cases. This week: Their latest investigation draws Max and Oskar into the sphere of nationalistic groups who despite Vienna's immigrants. Max's fiancee is provoked into taking daring risks before the murderer's shocking rationale is finally revealed.
  • Mourners left a makeshift memorial outside NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston after the Columbia disaster on Feb. 1, 2003.
    Twenty years after the Columbia disaster, a NASA official reflects on lessons learned
    Seven astronauts died when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry on Feb. 1, 2003. NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy looks back on the tragedy and how it shaped the agency.
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