Your Top Science Stories This Week
| | Now that the sun is finally shining on California, the state's flora is in full bloom - super bloom, that is. Platoons of poppy enthusiasts and smartphone-wielding Instagrammers have flocked to deserts, mountains and meadows to experience the kaleidoscope of colors (and pollen) for themselves. Here's what they look like from space via satellite.
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| | | The situation is dire but not hopeless for some of SoCal's remaining cougars. | | |
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| | | Counties in California bear a lot of responsibility for watchdogging pesticides, but a new report suggests they're not getting the guidance they need from the state, and that could make people less safe. | | |
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| | | Wetlands or housing? A decision from the Trump administration could breathe new life into a Bay Area battle over one of the biggest plans for bayside development in a generation. | | |
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| AI has managed to tangle itself in a pile of ethical problems: job disruption, security, racial discrimination. Stanford is betting it can make a better AI by using human values as the lodestar. | | |
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| Forget the SoCal super bloom crowds (and traffic), and visit these four colorful floral spots right here in the Bay. | | |
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| Join local scientists from the Academy of Sciences, UC Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF to discuss what it's like to be a woman in science. Shannon Bennett, Chief of Science, will moderate a panel of experts. Thursday, March 28, 6:00PM at the California Academy of Sciences. 21+ with ID. | | |
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