H5N1 bird flu detected in Bay Area child, California's first case confirmed outside farms

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Darlene Shiley pledges record $75 million to University of San Diego for STEM

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King tides have returned to the San Diego coast. But are they really as royal as their name implies?

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Joanne Chory, Salk plant biologist who found ways to blunt impacts of climate change, dies at 69

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The Leonid meteor shower peaks as the supermoon wanes

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Can America heal after the election? Clergy, researchers tackle political anxiety and toxic polarization

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When to catch the last supermoon of the year

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In new term, Trump set to go after measures that are doing the most to fight climate change

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San Diego's General Atomics passes a milestone. Can nuclear fusion energy become a reality?

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Astronaut Matthew Dominick, a University of San Diego grad, returns to Earth from International Space Station

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NASA astronaut hospitalized after SpaceX Crew-8 splashdown return off coast of Florida

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October's supermoon pairs with a comet for a special nighttime spectacle

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AI is having its Nobel moment. Do scientists need the tech industry to sustain it?

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Climate change boosted Helene's deadly rain and wind and scientists say same is likely for Milton

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Nobel Prize in chemistry honors 3 scientists who used AI to design proteins – life's building blocks

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Looking up at the stars and seeing ourselves, San Diego artist wants to share astronomy with his community

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UC San Diego buoys dropped in path of Hurricane Helene grab treasure trove of data

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SDSU is betting $80 million it can become a key player in the lithium industry

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UC San Diego gets $10 million to study how climate change affects marine animals

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University of San Diego graduate will travel to International Space Station

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Can dogs 'talk' to humans? A UC San Diego study offers an intriguing clue

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Photos: August's supermoon is the first of four lunar spectacles

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San Diego State University develops Midas touch in competing for research money

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Snorkelers found a rare deep-sea fish off La Jolla. It took 'a community effort' to haul it to shore to study.

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4.4 quake in Los Angeles lightly shakes northern San Diego County

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Elegant terns make their home at small Mission Bay island

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AI developed in La Jolla is being tested for 'instantaneous' cancer screening

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Star Trek actors George Takei and John Cho to discuss science of storytelling at UCSD

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Margaret Leinen, who guided Scripps Oceanography to new heights, will retire

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San Diego County coastal waters turn unusually cool due to upwelling

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Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 astronaut who walked on the moon, will speak in San Diego this month

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Michael Smolens: As fire season heats up, so do controversial efforts to prepare for it

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San Diego's life science sector contributed $56.6B to the regional economy, despite tight financing and layoffs

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6 San Diego scientists elected to National Academy of Sciences, embellishing the region's standing as a research mecca

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Illness took away her voice. AI created a replica she carries in her phone

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NASA gives UCSD $10 million to develop ideas for using satellites to scrutinize Earth's changing climate

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Researchers point powerful ultrasound technology at the next frontier - addiction

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From earthquakes to early humans to the tiniest wildlife in local canyons, here's what 10 San Diego researchers are studying - and where

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San Diego's life science industry has a new challenge: Too much space

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A group of small earthquakes in Imperial Valley lightly shakes eastern San Diego County

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Pharmaceutical giant Takeda is shutting down its San Diego office

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San Diego's Cue Health had the first FDA-approved home COVID-19 test. Now the agency says to throw them out.

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Illumina competitor Pacific Biosciences is closing its San Diego office, laying off workers

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San Diego biotech news: Local maker of mRNA used in COVID-19 vaccine opens new facility

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Ellen Ochoa, SDSU graduate and first Latina to travel in space, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

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Prebys Foundation awards $7 million in grants to 14 San Diego researchers

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In a tiny submersible, UCSD's Lisa Levin is about to descend 3 miles to learn 'how the ocean works, and how it can change'

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This biotech startup got the biggest venture capital deal in San Diego so far this year

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Hiring is hot for government and health care jobs. These sectors boosted San Diego's employment gains

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San Diego biotech company making melanoma test patch cuts 56% of its workforce

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Scripps Research reports progress toward creating vaccine against the harmful 'zombie' drug xylazine

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What's polluting the oceans? UC San Diego to lead large study of contaminants' source, fate and health impacts

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3.8 earthquake near Borrego Springs briefly shakes parts of San Diego County

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Illumina gets two new executives as the San Diego biotech revamps its C-suite

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As more than half the sun slips into eclipse, oohs and ahs fill the air across San Diego County

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San Diego travelers view eclipse from 33,000 feet

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More rocket launches could light up the San Diego sky as SpaceX builds out satellite network

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Monday's partial solar eclipse in San Diego County will be marvelous - if the weather doesn't interfere

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Bristol Myers Squibb to lay off hundreds of workers following its $4.8B merger with this San Diego biotech

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3.5 earthquake near Lake Henshaw gently shakes parts of San Diego County

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San Diego biotech news: Veteran life science execs raise $150M for cancer drug targeting hard-to-treat tumors

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Vernor Vinge, visionary sci-fi author who helped foretell the rise of internet and AI, dies in La Jolla at 79

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Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and other big pharmas are backing this San Diego biotech with $175M

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San Diego's latest biotech, Contineum Therapeutics, files to go public

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This downtown San Diego life science building is now 50% leased with latest tenant

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Magnitude 3.3 earthquake off the La Jolla coast briefly shakes San Diego County

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Startup Boundless Bio files to go public - San Diego's first life science IPO of 2024

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La Jolla Institute reports promising results in cancer vaccine. 'I think it's a real innovation.'

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San Diego's Dexcom gets first FDA clearance for an over-the-counter wearable continuous glucose monitor

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248 miles above Earth, a University of San Diego graduate is about to experience life aboard the International Space Station

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Salk Institute delays building $250 million sci-tech center by 3 years

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Scripps Oceanography helps discover new species of tropical fish in Mexico's wondrous Revillagigedo Archipelago

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Head to the beach at night: Enchanting neon-blue light is flashing in the surf from bioluminescent plankton

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Soon they'll orbit the moon. First, these astronauts are working with the San Diego-based Navy team who'll welcome them back to Earth.

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Salk Nobel laureate Roger Guillemin, whose insights helped lead to better ways to fight disease, dies at 100

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SDSU breaks ground on a new lab in the Imperial Valley, and a new push in its research boom

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UCSD graduate earns astronaut wings and could be named to NASA's lunar missions

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Salk Institute's Ron Evans wins coveted Japan Prize for groundbreaking insights into human health

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Get wrapped up in the 'ebb and flow' of art centering the wonders of kelp at UC San Diego exhibit

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3.4 earthquake near Borrego Springs jostles parts of San Diego County

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Scripps researchers' surprising find scanning the ocean floor: Thousands of WWII-era munitions and whale skeletons

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Frozen Zoo makes breakthrough for critically endangered species with dozens of baby sea stars

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International Air and Space Hall of Fame fundraiser

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The truth about sleep trackers' capabilities

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Human genome pioneer J. Craig Venter's tales of his seafaring adventures are thrilling. His new book about them is less so

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The 'rainmaker' who took UCSD's engineering school to new heights, in everything from chip design to flying taxis, is retiring

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Sickle cell treatment created with gene editing gets approval in U.K.

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Don Walsh, San Diego naval officer who led historic dive to the ocean's deepest chasm, dies at 92

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Sorry, Oxford and Yale. When it comes to influential scientists, you lag far behind UC San Diego, a relative newcomer

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It's dark. The seas are pitching. And the Arctic winds are fierce. For UCSD oceanographer Jennifer MacKinnon, it's a moment for giving thanks.

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Along the California coast, white sharks swim among us, often unnoticed

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Is this handheld device the key to catching Alzheimer's? UCSD researcher's breakthrough could allow earlier diagnosis

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Space rock, or a chunk of the moon? UCSD research yields new revelations about near-Earth asteroid

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Time magazine names UC San Diego's wildfire spotter network one of the year's best inventions

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Birch Aquarium successfully spawns three critically endangered sunflower sea stars

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Rare solar eclipse breaks through San Diego's cloudy skies, delighting throngs of watchers at Balboa Park

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Can frozen DNA help species survive extinction? San Diego's Frozen Zoo, conservationists partner to put biodiversity banking on the map

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San Diego County will experience a rare 'ring of fire' solar eclipse Saturday - if the marine layer burns off

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Birch Aquarium welcomes ravioli-sized Big Skate babies

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International Space Station will be easy to see from San Diego County this week

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