Your Top Science Stories for this Week
| California's insurance commissioner says home insurance rates are likely to go up. Companies have already filed rate hike requests to start recouping some of the costs of last fall's wildfires. | | |
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| | | Our story on eco-friendly cremation got slammed by Drudge Report readers after it appeared on the site. So we wondered: How is it that so many people reject what is known to be true? | | |
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| | | Sea-level rise could swamp thousands of homes in the San Francisco Bay Area within 30 years, says a new study from the Union of Concerned Scientists. | | |
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| | | Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have stumbled on a manta ray nursery in protected waters off the coast of Texas – the first one in the world to be discovered. | | |
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| | | California officials, having concluded coffee drinking is not a risky pastime, are proposing a regulation that will essentially tell consumers of America's favorite beverage they can drink up without fear. | | |
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| | | In 1998, James Hansen proclaimed that global warming was already here. Until then most scientists merely warned of future warming. He left NASA in 2013, devoting more time to what he calls his “anti-government job” of advocacy. | | |
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| | | Karl Deisseroth, a Stanford University professor of bioengineering and psychiatry, has been awarded an international prize worth more than $900,000 for his work in illuminating brain activity with light. | | |
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| | | Marine mammals make the craziest sounds! Come discover the unique sounds each marine mammal makes at the Marine Mammal Center in Saulsalito on Sunday, June 24 from 10 a.m. — 4 p.m. with special docent led tours and activities. | | |
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