Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement SDG&E cut power to of San Diego County and southern Orange County on Friday night to cope with a surge in electricity demand brought on by the start of a heat wave that will last well into next week.The rolling outages began at 6:40 p.m. and ended shortly after 8 p.m., SDG&E said. The blackouts affected about 58,700 of the utility’s customers. It was the first time since 2001 that the California Independent System Operator, which runs the state power grid, had asked SDG&E to impose rolling outages....…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement SDG&E cut power to of San Diego County and southern Orange County on Friday night to cope with a surge in electricity demand brought on by the start of a heat wave that will last well into next week.The rolling outages began at 6:40 p.m. and ended shortly after 8 p.m., SDG&E said. The blackouts affected about 58,700 of the utility’s customers. It was the first time since 2001 that the California Independent System Operator, which runs the state power grid, had asked SDG&E to impose rolling outages....WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement Scientists are carefully monitoring a that erupted on Monday in the Salton Sea below the southern tip of the dangerous San Andreas fault. They are concerned about the possibility that the swarm could trigger a larger event, a phenomenon that has occurred in that region in the past. Scientists said Monday afternoon that there’s a less than 1 percent chance that the swarm will produce a 6.0 or larger quake within the next month. But the location of the swarm is worrisome due to its closeness to the San Andreas. The...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement Scientists are carefully monitoring a that erupted on Monday in the Salton Sea below the southern tip of the dangerous San Andreas fault. They are concerned about the possibility that the swarm could trigger a larger event, a phenomenon that has occurred in that region in the past. Scientists said Monday afternoon that there’s a less than 1 percent chance that the swarm will produce a 6.0 or larger quake within the next month. But the location of the swarm is worrisome due to its closeness to the San Andreas. The...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement A computer programmer at the Salk Institute in La Jolla has sparked an uproar by using the center’s email system to criticize the Black Lives Matter movement and George Floyd, the Minneapolis man whose recent death in police custody ignited nationwide protests.The protests have included of civil rights demonstrations in San Diego County, and wide-ranging discussions about changing the way that police operate.Bob Kuczewski, who has worked at the elite biomedical research institute for about eight years, sent an...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement A computer programmer at the Salk Institute in La Jolla has sparked an uproar by using the center’s email system to criticize the Black Lives Matter movement and George Floyd, the Minneapolis man whose recent death in police custody ignited nationwide protests.The protests have included of civil rights demonstrations in San Diego County, and wide-ranging discussions about changing the way that police operate.Bob Kuczewski, who has worked at the elite biomedical research institute for about eight years, sent an...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement The laboratory lights burned long and bright during the AIDS crisis.San Diego researchers coalesced into an army that helped find ways to detect, describe and stop one of the worst pandemics in history. More than three decades later, there’s a new uprising. From the research towers at UC San Diego to the pharmaceutical companies in Carlsbad, the region’s huge science community has joined the fight against COVID-19, which has killed more than 100,000 people worldwide.“This is a from-the-ground-up movement that’s...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement The laboratory lights burned long and bright during the AIDS crisis.San Diego researchers coalesced into an army that helped find ways to detect, describe and stop one of the worst pandemics in history. More than three decades later, there’s a new uprising. From the research towers at UC San Diego to the pharmaceutical companies in Carlsbad, the region’s huge science community has joined the fight against COVID-19, which has killed more than 100,000 people worldwide.“This is a from-the-ground-up movement that’s...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The historic rains that recently drenched San Diego County have generated a coastal red tide that is producing bright blue bioluminescence, a beloved phenomenon also known as sea sparkle. But it has appeared in the surf in Carlsbad at the very moment that the public is barred from visiting most beaches due to the novel coronavirus.The ocean is teeming with Lingulodinium polyedra, a type of single-cell organism that can produce brilliant flickers of light, particularly in breaking surf or the wake of a boat.AdvertisementThe organism...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The historic rains that recently drenched San Diego County have generated a coastal red tide that is producing bright blue bioluminescence, a beloved phenomenon also known as sea sparkle. But it has appeared in the surf in Carlsbad at the very moment that the public is barred from visiting most beaches due to the novel coronavirus.The ocean is teeming with Lingulodinium polyedra, a type of single-cell organism that can produce brilliant flickers of light, particularly in breaking surf or the wake of a boat.AdvertisementThe organism...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement San Diego County beaches remained closed on Sunday, forcing people to look elsewhere for a relief on a day when temperatures were 15 to 20 degrees above normal across much of the region. But some beaches will reopen on Monday and the heat wave that’s afflicted Southern California since late last week will moderate, according to the National Weather Service.An excessive heat warning will remain in effect for the mountains and deserts until 9 p.m. on Thursday.San Diego International Airport reached 88 degrees Sunday,...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement San Diego County beaches remained closed on Sunday, forcing people to look elsewhere for a relief on a day when temperatures were 15 to 20 degrees above normal across much of the region. But some beaches will reopen on Monday and the heat wave that’s afflicted Southern California since late last week will moderate, according to the National Weather Service.An excessive heat warning will remain in effect for the mountains and deserts until 9 p.m. on Thursday.San Diego International Airport reached 88 degrees Sunday,...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement UC San Diego researchers have confirmed that climate change helped produce the historic 43-day ocean heat wave that drew big crowds to San Diego beaches during the summer of 2018.The finding was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, in a paper that says the phenomenon could not be soley attributed to natural variations in the weather.The average summer water temperature at the Scripps Pier in La Jolla is 70.7 degrees. But in 2018, ocean readings surpassed 73 degrees on every day of the heat wave,...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement UC San Diego researchers have confirmed that climate change helped produce the historic 43-day ocean heat wave that drew big crowds to San Diego beaches during the summer of 2018.The finding was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, in a paper that says the phenomenon could not be soley attributed to natural variations in the weather.The average summer water temperature at the Scripps Pier in La Jolla is 70.7 degrees. But in 2018, ocean readings surpassed 73 degrees on every day of the heat wave,...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement NASA said Wednesday it will send astronaut Kate Rubins back to the International Space Station this fall, making her the second UC San Diego graduate to serve aboard the orbiting outpost this year. The 41-year-old Rubins spent 115 days on space station in 2016, during a mission in which she became the first person to sequence DNA in space. She was focusing on her specialty; Rubins earned a bachelor’s degree in microbiology at UCSD in 1999.Rubins is now scheduled to fly back to the space station on Oct. 14 aboard a...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement NASA said Wednesday it will send astronaut Kate Rubins back to the International Space Station this fall, making her the second UC San Diego graduate to serve aboard the orbiting outpost this year. The 41-year-old Rubins spent 115 days on space station in 2016, during a mission in which she became the first person to sequence DNA in space. She was focusing on her specialty; Rubins earned a bachelor’s degree in microbiology at UCSD in 1999.Rubins is now scheduled to fly back to the space station on Oct. 14 aboard a...WW…