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Girl Scouts Add Badges For Robotics, Other Science Skills

"Girls have expressed a ton of interest and have been very vocal about their desire to do more STEM," a Girl Scouts regional representative says.

With a downed power utility pole in the foreground, residents of Paradise, Calif., examine a burned-out vehicle destroyed by last year's wildfire.

PG&E Says Federal Judge's Safety Plan Is Not Feasible And Too Expensive

The utility company is trying to convince a federal judge to modify a wide-ranging proposal to mitigate wildfire risk. PG&E is also seeking bankruptcy protection.

This ancient piece of bread, more than 14,000 years old, is changing what archaeologists thought they knew about the history of food and agriculture.

14,000-Year-Old Piece Of Bread Rewrites The History Of Baking And Farming

Breadcrumbs found at an excavation in Jordan reveal that humans were baking thousands of years earlier than previously believed. It may have even prompted them to settle down and plant cereals.

This hillside was covered with tiny, yellow wildflowers in on the Temblor Range at Carrizo Plain National Monument 2017.

A Little More Rain Could Bring Another Wildflower 'Super Bloom' To California

California's wet and rainy winter is getting both wildflower experts and enthusiasts excited about the potential of another "super bloom" this spring.

An Anopheles coluzzi mosquito, which can transmit malaria, with a genetically modified fungus emerging from the body after the insect's death. A green fluorescent protein was included to mark the fungus, shown under a UV light.

Scientists Genetically Modify Fungus To Kill Mosquitoes That Spread Malaria

The modified fungus produces spider toxin that rapidly kills mosquitoes, raising hopes for a new weapon to fight a disease that sickens millions. But not everyone is convinced.

As the climate warms, drought is killing large numbers of trees in California. Scientists are looking to the past to try and understand how the ecosystems of today may be changing.

To Predict Effects Of Global Warming, Scientists Looked Back 20,000 Years

More than 40 researchers concluded that climate change would make ecosystems such as deciduous forests, grasslands and Arctic tundra unrecognizable.

How To Survive A 10,000-Foot Fall

Sometimes people who fall great distances survive. How do they get so lucky? Scientists share the secrets of an implausible safe landing.

VIDEO: To Save A Fox, Scientists Took To Land, Air And Sea

When the world's population of Channel Island foxes started to vanish in the '90s, no one knew why. Bringing them back from near-extinction has meant unraveling a mystery that started with WWII.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Lisa Levin stands near the Scripps Pier talking about the worrying trend of falling oxygen levels in ocean waters around the world, Jan. 3, 2018.

Scripps Professor To Discuss Ethics Of Deep Sea Mining

When it comes to unlocking the vast resources in the deep ocean, scientists are raising concerns about the ethics involved. Who owns those resources? And how can the proper extraction and use of fuel and mineral resources be regulated?

There has been a backlash since Chinese scientist He Jiankui's claimed that he edited genes in embryos that became twin girls.

Outrage Intensifies Over Claims Of Gene-Edited Babies

Concerns over a Chinese scientist's claim that he created the first gene-edited babies grow with more questions about whether it worked and the possible harm he may have inflicted on the twin girls.

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