Gabriel Filippelli, Aradhna Tripati, and Seath Brook Ahrens are this year’s Distinguished Alumni Award recipients for the ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

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but the San Diego Book Crawl has been the main event in Southern California: It’s also happening this weekend, April 26-28. This book nerd won’t be there this weekend, but if I were, I’d be making ...

Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four ... debateThe Sierra Nevada has ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered siderite, a carbonate mineral, beneath Mars’ surface—providing new clues that the Red ...

The most closely I worked with Gary was on our 1992 California Geology article “Sources of North Coast Seismicity.” We definitely butted heads during the process but arguments with Gary were ...

A California school’s ethnic studies curriculum that included discussions of Israel as a “settler colonial state” was found to have discriminated against Jewish students. The California ...

"This book fundamentally, I think, is about identity, who we are without the journalism, without the first lady, without who you're married to," Shriver said. Shriver became California's first ...

An Introduction to the Study of Rocks in Thin Sections. By Howel Williams, Francis J. Turner and Charles M. Gilbert. (A Series of Geology Texts.) Pp. x + 406. (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and ...

The stalactites and stalagmites of Sequoia National Park’s Crystal Cave, a sprawling subterranean wonder that’s been closed for four years, will be accessible again this summer. But to get in ...

appeared at the Nixon Library as part of his “Califailure” book tour, in which he argues that homelessness, high costs of living, high taxes and the housing crisis in California are the result ...