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California’s Two-Spot Octopus is The Alien Mind Off Shore

Upwelling, the Ocean’s Engine Beneath California’s Waters

Albert Einstein's Three Wonderful Winters in Pasadena

The amazing undersea world of California Oil Rigs

Transforming California’s Oil Platforms into Marine Sanctuaries

San Clemente Island is Where War Games and Wildlife Coexist

The Happy Nut: California’s Rise to Pistachio Power

Ten Essential Books About California’s Nature, Science, and Sense of Place

The Myth of the Hundred-Foot Whale

One Wilshire: Los Angeles’ Hidden Artery of the Internet

California Is a Nobel Powerhouse

Corals Revealed as Never Before Through a Groundbreaking New Microscope in California

The Unsung California Labs That Powered the Digital Revolution

California Scientists Take Aim at Cow Burps with Seaweed

Riding Wave Energy in Los Angeles

The Story of Southern California Sand from Mountains to Surf

The Physics and Geology of The Wedge, California’s Most Dangerous Surf Break

California’s Precarious Future and the Promise—and Limits—of Desalination

Bring Human Exploration Back to California’s Deep Ocean

How California Has Revived Its Groundfish Fisheries

When Southern California was the Kuwait of the Jazz Age

What David Attenborough Reminded Me About the Sea

California’s Dark-Eyed Juncos Are Quietly Evolving in Plain Sight

The Salton Sea Was California's Strangest Catastrophe

The Caltech Experiment That Proved How Life Copies Itself

The Sweet Journey of the Boysenberry

Manzanitas are California's Sculptured Survivors

California’s Eye on the Cosmos: The SLAC-Built Camera That Will Time-Lapse the Universe

California’s Wild Laboratory: The Evolutionary Wonders of the Channel Islands

Let Dark Parks in California Reconnect You with the Universe

Why are California's redwoods and sequoias so big and tall?

The Blythe Intaglios are the California's Nazca Lines. They are True Mysteries Etched in Earth.

The Scourge of Ghost Lobster Traps and the Battle to Save Marine Life in California

Thomas Dibblee Jr., One of California’s Greatest Geologists, and the 200-Mile Journey of Pinnacles National Park

Giants Fallen: The Destruction of Converse Basin Grove and its Giant Sequoias

Why Are Dinosaur Fossils So Scarce in California?

Why Parkfield, California is the Nation's Earthquake Capital

Baja California Is Slowly Breaking Away from the Mainland and May One Day Become an Island

A Drive Through Tejon Pass is a Journey Through Time, Terrain, and Tectonics

The Long Life and Accidental Death of the Prometheus Bristlecone Pine

Walter Munk was a Californian Oceanographer Who Changed Our Understanding of the Seas

The Fight for California’s Coastline and the Future of the Coastal Commission

The Plate Tectonic Revolution and How California Became the Epicenter of a Scientific Breakthrough

Feathers on the Flyway: Unraveling Avian Mysteries at Bear Divide with the Moore Lab

How Highway Roadcuts Tell California’s Deep History

Hannes Keller's 1,000-Foot Descent off Catalina Island Was the Dive of the Century

Clair Patterson: The Caltech Scientist Who Exposed Lead Poisoning and Changed the World

Berkeley’s Cosmic Breakthrough and the Alvarez Discovery That Rewrote Earth’s History

Creosote Bushes Are the Mojave Desert's Time Travelers

Camp Pendleton is an Unlikely Haven for Wildlife

Exploring the Long Valley Caldera, California's Ancient Supervolcano

A Deep Dive into Monterey Canyon, California's Great Abyss

California’s Monterey Formation: Unraveling the Secrets of a Fossil-Rich, Oil-Bearing Geological Wonder

The Mountain Pass Mine in California May Be the U.S. Rare Earths Game Changer

Golden Scars: The Enduring Legacy of Hydraulic Mining in California

How Lancaster, California Company B2U is Giving Old EV Batteries a Second Life on the Grid

How a Tiny Beetle Helped Save California

From Desert Riches to Durable Glass: how a California mine has helped change the world