The Latest Stories From KQED Science
| Deep Look: This Snail Goes Fishing With a Net Made of Slime | | If you are exploring tide pools this summer, you might see tiny tubelike towers that belong to an unusual sea snail. When the tide comes in, it casts a net from nearly invisible strands of its own mucus to catch its supper. Researchers have found that warming ocean waters might actually give these scaled wormsnails a boost. | | |
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| How to Get Free Entry to California State Parks With Your Library Card | | See which California state parks, including many around the Bay Area, you can get into for free with the new California State Library Parks Pass. | | |
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| From Berkeley to the Bomb: Oppenheimer Before Los Alamos | | Before he became the 'father of the atomic bomb,' J. Robert Oppenheimer was a professor at UC Berkeley. | | |
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| Lawmakers Push for National Heat-Related Worker Protections Amid Scorching Temperatures | | New legislation, announced by California Senator Alex Padilla, would speed up key protections for workers exposed to dangerous heat conditions across the country. | | |
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| Why Cities Like San Francisco Get 10 Degrees Hotter Than Rural Areas | | More than 40 million urban Americans are experiencing significantly hotter temperatures than their rural counterparts, new research finds. | | |
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| Whistleblower Alerts Congress of Secret U.S. Program to Capture UFOs | | A former Air Force intelligence officer has testified that the US is concealing a longstanding program that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects. | | |
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