California drought: How water crisis is worse for almonds
A huge shift away from annual crops to nut trees has transformed the California farm belt over the past two decades and left farmers perilously vulnerable to the current severe drought.
San Francisco Chronicle
A physicist's search for the Big Bang
UC San Diego's Brian Keating helped design, build and analyze data from the BICEP2 telescope that found evidence of “cosmic inflation” less than a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.
U-T San Diego
California drought: Ray of hope in fish-vs.-farms dispute
UC Davis researchers flooded rice paddies to give young chinook salmon a spot to rest and feed as they migrate into the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The three-year experiment has resulted in a dramatic increase in the size of migrating juvenile salmon every winter of the experiment.
San Francisco Chronicle
A beautiful mind
In Adam Gazzaley’s new lab, the brain is a kaleidoscope of colors, bursting and pulsing in real time to the rhythm of electronic music. He also wants this to lead to treatments for a variety of brain diseases.