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Samurai Wasps Say ‘Smell Ya Later, Stink Bugs’
Colonies of brown marmorated stink bugs reared at Oregon State University. (Jenny Oh/KQED) It looks rather harmless at first glance. With a speckled exterior and a shieldlike shape, the brown...
View ArticleSouthern California Mountain Lions Face Local Extinction
Lions once prevalent over two Southern California mountain ranges could disappear entirely within 50 years, risking local extinction because of conditions both environmental and genetic. That’s the...
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A Gulp Of Genetically Modified Bacteria Might Someday Treat A Range Of Illnesses
Instead of eating a typical breakfast every day, Jonah Reeder gulps down a special protein shake. “The nutrients in it like to sit at the bottom, so I usually have to shake it up and get all the...
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Porcupines Give You 30,000 Reasons to Back Off
At first, the idea of using porcupine quills to patch up wounds sounds torturous. But now researchers are taking inspiration from the spiky rodent to make a new type of surgical staple that may be less...
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This Millipede and Beetle Have a Toxic Relationship
[pullquote]Subscribe to Deep Look on Youtube[/pullquote]Across Northern California, as the rainy season is ending and spring is taking hold, bees are buzzing, flowers are growing and hikers are hitting...
View ArticleInterview: Theranos Whistleblower Erika Cheung Thinks Elizabeth Holmes Should...
She joined Theranos fresh out of the University of California, Berkeley, a self-described “starry-eyed’’ 22-year-old chemist and biologist who saw Elizabeth Holmes as a role model: the CEO who would...
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Worried About ‘Designer Babies’? They’re Still Only a Fantasy. And That May...
Scientists continue to speak out against the prospect of producing engineered embryos that could lead to “designer babies.” [pullquote align=’right’]’You could have done just as well by throwing a dart...
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Honey Bees Make Honey … and Bread?
Spring means honey bees flitting from flower to flower. In California, this frantic insect activity that starts in late winter and continues through the summer is essential to growing foods like...
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These Face Mites Really Grow on You
I hate to break this to you, but you almost certainly have tiny mites living in the pores in your face right now. They’re called Demodex. And pretty much every adult human alive has a population of...
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Here’s How We Now Know a 3-Million-Year-Old Mouse Had Red Fur
Scientists can now “see” more accurately what long-extinct species looked like. Researchers from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park and the University of Manchester have created a...
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The New Pollution: Monterey Bay is Swimming in Microplastic
Monterey Bay — long considered an environmental success story–is now facing a new threat: tiny particles of plastic. And scientists are finding that it’s far worse than they suspected. The bay is a...
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Meeting a Wormlion Is the Pits
An assortment of tiny wormlions. (Joyce Gross) Ominous creatures that lurk deep underground in the desert, like the sandworms in the classic science fiction novel “Dune,” aren’t just make-believe. For...
View ArticleThere May Be Way More Plastic in Your Diet Than You Thought
It’s no secret that plastic pollution litters the streets, fouls rivers, and drifts across oceans. Now, it’s in people, too. The average person in the U.S. consumes between 74,000 and 121,000 particles...
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UC Partners With Pharmaceutical Giant on $67 Million CRISPR Lab
The University of California and the British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline on Thursday announced plans to build a new $67 million genetics laboratory focused on the gene-editing technology...
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Bay Area Company Wants to Replace Plastics in Textiles by Using Bacteria
If civilizations are remembered for what they leave behind, our time might be labeled the Plastic Age. Plastic can endure for centuries. It’s everywhere, even in our clothes, from polyester leisure...
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‘Centers of Insurrection’: Central Valley Farmers Reckon With Climate Change
Reckoning in the Central Valley is a collaboration between Bay Nature magazine and KQED Science examining how climate change is laying bare the vulnerabilities of California agriculture. On an average...
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New Forensic Tool Uses Single Hair to Identify Perpetrators
A new forensic technique could help identify perpetrators of sexual assault using a kind of evidence typically deemed unreliable by the scientific community: hair. Historically, analysis of hair...
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Here We Go Again: Feds Reopen Patent Dispute Between UC and Broad Institute
The U.S. patent office has declared an interference between a dozen key patents awarded to the Broad Institute on the genome-editing technology CRISPR and 10 CRISPR patent applications submitted by the...
View ArticleThe Best Health and Science Books to Dip Into This Summer
The first day of summer has arrived, and so has STAT’s annual book list of great reads in health, science, and medicine. Read on for recommendations from CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna and CDC Director...
View ArticleState Filing Says Isolated, Struggling Mountain Lions Need Endangered Species...
Two environmental groups are pushing state wildlife officials to grant new protections to mountain lions between Santa Cruz and the Mexico border under the California Endangered Species Act. A petition...
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