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These shoes made by San Diego-based Blueview Footwear are fully biodegradable. Dec. 2, 2022.

New plastics made from plants developed in San Diego

Bioengineering leads to products that perform like plastic but aren’t made from petroleum, and some are biodegrade.

In this screenshot captured by NPR, the bow of the shipwrecked Titanic is seen from the first human-operated vehicle to visit the site in 1986. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution released footage from that 1986 dive on Wednesday.

Newly released footage of a 1986 Titanic dive reveals the ship's haunting interior

The Titanic's rust-caked bow, an officer's cabin and a promenade window are part of the never-before-seen footage of the shipwreck site, which continues to slowly vanish 12,500 feet below the waves.

The aurora australis over Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 2009. A new report from the National Science Foundation finds sexual harassment and assault are a major problem at remote facilities.

Sexual harassment and assault plague U.S. research bases in Antarctica, report says

A new report commissioned by the National Science Foundation finds a culture of silence and fear among employees at U.S.-run facilities in Antarctica.

Employers are struggling to find young workers to take jobs in the skilled trades.

America needs carpenters and plumbers. Gen Z doesn't seem interested

Baby boomers are aging out of jobs they long dominated like builders, farmers, mechanics Young workers aren't clamoring to take their place.

At nearly 400 feet tall, Starship is the largest rocket to ever fly. SpaceX hopes it can become a vehicle for interplanetary travel.

SpaceX prepares to launch its mammoth rocket 'Starship'

Starship is the largest rocket ever built. The company hopes it will one day take people to the moon and Mars. But first it has to fly.

Nick Barrera says stigma from the medical system has kept him from accessing critical health care.

Few are tackling stigma in addiction care. Some in Seattle want to change that

A program in Seattle is helping people in drug and alcohol recovery overcome barriers to medical care in an effort to keep them off the street. A key piece is battling stigma from medical providers.

Shana Alesi administers a COVID-19 booster vaccine to Marine Corps veteran Bill Fatz at the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital in Hines, Ill., in 2021. A new round of boosters could become available for some people this spring.

Some adults can now get a second shot of the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine

Older adults and others at high risk are now able to get a second shot of the COVID-19 booster that targets omicron.

The U.S. Supreme Court has about four weeks left to release opinions for more than two dozen cases it heard this term.

Here are the major Supreme Court decisions decided this term

The U.S. Supreme Court has wrapped up its term and begun to agree to cases it will hear in its next one, to begin in the fall. Here are the major Supreme Court decisions decided this term.

A large quantity of seaweed, sargassum macroalgae, is floating on the water with vacationing sunbathers at Miami Beach, Fla.

Giant blobs of seaweed are hitting Florida. That's when the real problem begins

From Montego Bay to Miami, sargassum is leaving stinky brown carpets over what was once prime tourist sand. But whether it gets ignored or removed, it comes with high health and environmental risks.

People view fields of flowers at Carrizo Plains National Monument, California's largest remaining grassland.

California's destructively wet winter has a bright side. You'll want to see it

California's year of endless storms has seeded superblooms of wildflowers and provided a boost to some of the state's endangered ecosystems.

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