October 2025 – California Curated
3 posts published by California Curated during October 2025| California Curated
3 posts published by California Curated during October 2025| California Curated
I often discover these stories not from full articles, books, or podcasts, but from a single paragraph, or even a sentence, in them that makes me pause and think, I want to know more. That’s exactly how this week’s story about One Wilshire in downtown Los Angeles began. I was listening to a wonderful podcast … Continue reading One Wilshire: Los Angeles’ Hidden Artery of the Internet→| California Curated
The University of California system now counts 74 Nobel Prizes among its faculty and researchers. 23 in physics and 16 in chemistry. Berkeley leads the list, with 26 laureates, followed by UC San Diego, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and UC San Francisco. Even smaller campuses, such as UC Riverside, have ties to winners like Barry Barish, who shared the 2017 Nobel in Physics for detecting gravitational waves.| California Curated
What this new tool allows scientists to do is determine whether corals may be under stress from factors like warming seas, pollution, or disease. Ideally, these warning signs are detected before th…| California Curated
The technology is extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV). And one of the most important points I want to leave you with is that the origins of EUV are not found in Silicon Valley startups or corporate boardrooms but in California’s national laboratories, where government-funded science made the impossible possible.| California Curated
Because methane is so potent, trapping more than 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide over a 20-year period, the livestock industry’s footprint has become a central focus for climate scientists …| California Curated
2 posts published by California Curated during June 2025| California Curated
2 posts published by California Curated during September 2025| California Curated
Turning the steady motion of the Pacific into clean electricity, Eco Wave Power’s pilot at the Port of Los Angeles tests whether wave energy can become a real piece of California’s renewable future.| California Curated
It turns out most of the grains between your toes actually began their journey high in the mountains above LA, on craggy slopes far from the shore. Mostly, we are talking about the San Gabriel Moun…| California Curated
There is something unforgettable about the Wedge and the way its waves crash with such raw force. Sometimes they detonate just offshore, sending water skyrocketing into the air; other times they slam thunderously against the sand, eliciting groans and whoops from bystanders.| California Curated
Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The ocean covers about 70 percent of Earth’s surface and holds 96 percent of its water. But because it’s saturated with salt, it isn’t drinkable. Sailors have known this for centuries, and that’s a profound … Continue reading California’s Precarious Future and the Promise—and Limits—of Desalination→| California Curated
Launching a Triton 3300/3 submersible from a scientific support ship in the Bahamas. (Photo: Erik Olsen) It’s time for California to put people back in the deep. A human-occupied submersible belong…| California Curated
1 post published by California Curated during August 2025| California Curated
How Smart Policy and Collaboration Brought Groundfish Back From the Brink Vermillion Rockfish scientific illustration Recently, I wrote a more personal essay than I usually would, one in which I re…| California Curated
The Channel Islands of California, an enchanting archipelago, offer a fascinating natural laboratory for the study of island biogeography. This field of biology, which explores the distribution of …| California Curated
