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  • Wang Yi, China's director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission, speaks during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Feb. 18, 2023. One year into Russia's war against Ukraine, China is offering a 12-point proposal to end the fighting.
    China calls for a cease-fire and peace talks between Russia and Ukraine
    As Russia's war in Ukraine enters its second year, Beijing has repeatedly said it would broker any cease-fire talks, a proposal Ukrainians are wary of because of China's close ties with Moscow.
  • 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.
  • Weekend Science Clubs At The Fleet
    The Fleet Science Center offers Science Clubs for grades 5-8! Investigate exciting science topics on the second weekend of each month. Each session will be filled with new challenges, hands-on activities that can be 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! November Topic: Volcanoes Discuss the different layers of the earth and discover how tectonic plates create different types of volcanoes. • Saturday Science Club for Girls is held the second Saturday of the month from noon to 2 p.m. for girls in grades 5 to 8. Register here! • Sunday Science Club is held the second Sunday of the month from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday classes are co-ed for grades 5 to 8. Register here! Dates | Saturday, November 13 from noon to 2 p.m., and Sunday, November 14 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Location | The Fleet Science Center Pricing Members: $13 per week Nonmembers: $15 per week For more information, please visit www.fleetscience.org/events/science-clubs or call (619) 238-1233.
  • A cannabis joint is lit in this undated photo.
    California sees increase in cannabis-related ER visits by older adults
    A UCSD study found that cannabis-linked ER admissions were up 1,804% for people over 65 from 2005 to 2019.
  • Hyphen-Labs: Virtual Artist Talk
    Hyphen-Labs is an international collective working at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future. Through their global vision and multi-disciplinary backgrounds they are driven to create engaging ways to explore planetary-centered design. In the process they challenge conventions and stimulate conversations, placing collective needs and experiences at the center of evolving narratives. Date | Friday, April 15 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Location | Online Register here! This event is free and open to the public. Must register to attend. For more information, please visit visarts.ucsd.edu/news-events/20220415_hyphen-labs or call (858) 534-2230.
  • Zhang Meixue, head of a farmer's association in southern Tainan county, walks through one of her former rice paddies. Before the drought, the paddy would normally be filled with enough water to simultaneously raise ducks. Now she's growing flowers in the dried-out paddy to beautify the area and attract tourists.
    Epic drought in Taiwan pits farmers against high-tech factories for water
    The island is facing one of its worst dry spells in a century, and both the agricultural and high-tech sectors are competing for scarce water resources.
  • Beata Mierzwa and Matthew Cooney help children play their new video game Microscopya at the Comic-Con Museum, San Diego, CA, July 22, 2022.
    Microscopya: A video game that entertains and educates kids about biology
    Microscopya is a new free downloadable app that teaches kids about the body's cells with puzzles, pictures and music.
  • Two Przewalski’s horses, a mother and newborn foal, at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, Jan. 27, 2023.
    Safari Park welcomes newborn Przewalski's horse, first for the park since 2014
    The Przewalski's horse was categorized as Extinct in the Wild until 1996. The foal is one of just four newborns in North America over the past year.
  • Google is slashing 12,000 jobs and is the latest tech giant to announce sweeping layoffs amid recession fears.
    Google is cutting 12,000 jobs, adding to a series of Big Tech layoffs in January
    The layoffs at Google follow similarly huge cuts at Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce. Tech companies who hired rapidly during the pandemic now face fears of recession.
  • File photo of boxes of the drug mifepristone sitting on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., March 16, 2022.
    What can California do about abortion pill ruling? Not much
    A ruling that suspends federal approval for medication abortion will not be easy for California abortion access advocates to overcome. Unless it’s reversed on appeal, the drug will likely be pulled from pharmacy shelves.
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