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Another COVID-19 booster shot may be coming. But interest is waning
Another COVID-19 booster may be on the way this spring, but it remains to be seen how much of an appetite there will be for more shots in California or...
Two mass shootings in three days. Are these copycat crimes?
Suicides tend to occur in clusters that suggest contagion, but there is little evidence that murders or mass shootings follow the same pattern, experts say.
Are Californians destroying the Amazon? A Sebastião Salgado exhibit raises hard questions
The beauty of the Amazon rainforest and its peoples, and the threats facing them, emerge in a Sebastião Salgado photo show at the California Science Center.
Abcarian: Mask mandates? COVID origins? Why are we still having these debates?
We may never have a definitive answer to COVID's origins. Reserve your anger for the way the Trump administration bungled its response to the disease.
Opinion: I called for more research on the COVID 'lab leak theory.' Here's what I found out
Contrary to conclusions by the Department of Energy and the FBI, the science on the pandemic's origins stacks up in favor of a jump from animals to humans.
Column: America's decline in life expectancy speaks volumes about our problems
After decades of increasing longevity, Americans are facing shorter life spans than their predecessors and their rich-country peers. In states where Republicans set the agenda, it's even worse.
In Southern California, everything is blooming everywhere all at once
The atmospheric rivers are gone, but the water they dumped on Southern California has prompted dormant plants to bloom for the first time in years. Native wildflowers and invasive weeds...
UC Berkeley spreads the gospel of data science with new college, free curriculum
UC Berkeley is spreading the gospel of data science, a high-demand, high-earning field that can advance social justice, with a proposed new college and free curriculum to schools.
Vintage Miller Lite delivery truck with 6 pack-shaped fridge listed for sale
A non-running vehicle listed for sale in Missouri is drawing attention for an unusual feature -- a large refrigeration shaped like a six-pack of Miller Lite beer.
Paleontologists find evidence of new mass extinction 233 million years ago
Paleontologists have unearthed evidence of a new mass extinction that occurred during the Late Triassic, some 233 million years ago.
Watch: T. rex skeleton expected to fetch up to $8M at New York auction
One of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons in the world is headed for the auction block in New York and is expected to sell for between $6 million and...
Did our early ancestors boil their food in hot springs?
Scientists have found evidence of hot springs near sites where ancient hominids settled, long before the control of fire.
World's largest DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren't all Scandinavian
Invaders, pirates, warriors - the history books taught us that Vikings were brutal predators who travelled by sea from Scandinavia to pillage and raid their way across Europe and beyond....
World's oldest animal sperm found in tiny crustaceans trapped in Myanmar amber
New research has led to the discovery of world's oldest animal sperm inside a tiny crustacean trapped in amber around 100 million years ago in Myanmar.
Ancient footprints in Saudi Arabia show how humans left Africa
Around 120,000 years ago in what is now northern Saudi Arabia, a small band of homo sapiens stopped to drink and forage at a shallow lake that was also frequented...
Discovery of a new mass extinction
It's not often a new mass extinction is identified; after all, such events were so devastating they really stand out in the fossil record. In a new paper, published today...
A new species of spider
During a research stay in the highlands of Colombia conducted as part of her doctorate, Charlotte Hopfe, Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Thomas Scheibel at the Biomaterials...
DNA data shows not all Vikings were Scandinavian
In the public imagination, the Vikings were closely-related clans of Scandinavians who marauded their way across Europe, but new genetic analysis paints a more complicated picture.
North Korea: South ‘digging its grave’ with military spending
North Korea state media is condemning Seoul for a recent defense budget hike, calling the move "yet another military provocation."
'South Park' pandemic special to air Sept. 30
"South Park" will address the COVID-19 pandemic in an hour-long special on Comedy Central.
Ancient volcanoes once boosted ocean carbon, but humans are now far outpacing them
A new study of an ancient period that is considered the closest natural analog to the era of modern human carbon emissions has found that massive volcanism sent great waves...
World's largest DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren't all Scandinavian
Invaders, pirates, warriors—the history books taught us that Vikings were brutal predators who travelled by sea from Scandinavia to pillage and raid their way across Europe and beyond.
Modern theory from ancient impacts
It is generally accepted that the inner region of the early solar system was subject to an intense period of meteoric bombardment referred to as the late heavy bombardment. However,...
Ancient DNA is revealing the genetic landscape of people who first settled East Asia
The very first human beings originally emerged in Africa before spreading across Eurasia about 60,000 years ago. After that, the story of humankind heads down many different paths, some more...
Watch: Kesha performs T. Rex's 'Children of the Revolution' while wearing silver body paint
Kesha donned metallic body paint for her T. Rex tribute on "The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon."
Paleontology: The oldest known sperm cells
An international team of paleontologists has discovered giant sperm cells in a 100-million year-old female ostracod preserved in a sample of amber. Clearly, the tiny crustacean had mated shortly before...
Watch: Janelle Monae honors Chadwick Boseman on 'Late Show'
Janelle Monae paid tribute to her friend, late actor Chadwick Boseman while appearing on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."
Meteorite study calls into doubt a popular theory about the early solar system
It is generally accepted that the inner region of the early solar system was subject to an intense period of meteoric bombardment referred to as the late heavy bombardment. However,...