The Latest Stories From KQED Science
| Leap Year 2024: Why Do We Get an Extra Day? | | A Bay Area astronomer explains: It's time to adjust the calendar; the Earth clock is running slow. | | |
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| February's Storms Doubled California Snowpack, March Could Bring More Wet Weather | | The recent storms have the Sierra glittering white, and meteorologists forecast that March could be a wet month. | | |
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| More California Colleges Provide Narcan Amid Ongoing Opioid Crisis | | The Campus Opioid Safety Act required colleges and universities to put the power of reversing fentanyl overdoses directly into the hands of students. Some campuses give out the life-saving nasal spray Narcan, while others do not. | | |
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| | | Bioneers | Bioneers 2024 includes a broad array of inspiring presentations and sessions from leading scientists and researchers. Merlin Sheldrake, Suzanne Simard, Rae Wynn-Grant, Erica Gies and many more discuss cutting-edge research from mycology, forest ecology, wildlife biology and conservation to ecosystem regeneration, clean tech and water management.
For more information and to register visit conference.bioneers.org.
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| Scientists Discover Long-Lost Stone Age 'Megastructure' While Scanning Seafloor | | A research team aboard a ship in the Baltic Sea found a hidden, half-mile-long wall on the seafloor they dubbed the 'Blinkerwall.' Stone Age hunter-gatherers likely used it to lure reindeer. | | |
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| DEEP LOOK: Watch Spawning Corals Synchronize With the Night Sky | | When the moon, sun and ocean temperatures all align, an underwater “snowstorm” occurs. Corals put on a massive spawning spectacle by sending tiny white spheres floating up the water column all at once. | | |
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