Brain Study Finds People Actually Get Dumber During A Heat Wave
BOSTON, Mass. (CBS Local) – With many states dealing with record-high temperatures and massive heat waves, many people are probably sick of summer already. A new study says that your brain may hate the...
View ArticleNew Hybrid Whale-Dolphin Discovered Off Hawaii
HAWAII (CBS Local) – Last year, a team of scientists spotted what they believed was a hybrid animal off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. A new report from Cascadia Research Collective confirms they did and...
View ArticleResearchers Create Heart Attack Prediction Tool
DALLAS, Texas (CBS Local) – Will you have a heart attack within the next ten years? Medical researchers affiliated with Dallas-based UT Southwestern Medical Center have unveiled a web page designed to...
View ArticleHumans Have Already Depleted Earth’s Resources For The Year
OAKLAND, Calif. (CBS Local) – A non-profit research group has some bad news for the rest of 2018. According to their calculations, humans have already used up all of the Earth’s renewable resources for...
View ArticleScientists Accidentally Create Treatment That May Stop Obesity
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CBS Local) – A failed experiment may have accidentally created a new treatment that could allow humans to eat whatever they want without gaining weight. Researchers at Yale University...
View Article‘Survival Of The Laziest’ May Be Key To Evolution, Study Suggests
LAWRENCE, Kan. (CBS Local) – Scientists used to believe evolution was all about the “survival of the fittest.” A new study is suggesting that the key to survival may actually be laziness. The study,...
View ArticleSecret Tunnels Between Your Brain And Skull Discovered By Scientists
BOSTON, Mass. (CBS Local) – Did you know there are tiny tunnels running from your skull to your brain? Don’t worry, no one else did either… until now. A new study by scientists in Boston has discovered...
View ArticleScience: Plants Perceive, Respond Like Animals, When Attacked
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – If the ability to think, feel and respond separates humans and beasts from plants, there’s new evidence that shows we are not so different, after all. In fact, when attacked,...
View ArticleBay Area Science Festival Caps Off With ‘Discovery Day At AT&T Park’
Katherine Nielsen and Luciano Del Rio chat with Bay Area Focus host Michelle Griego about the Bay Area Science Festival happening October 26 through November 3. It all culminates in day of science fun...
View Article‘Oscars Of Science’ Brings Together Big Names From Tech And Hollywood
MOUNTAIN VIEW (KPIX 5) — The 7th annual Breakthrough Prize Awards–also known as the “Oscars of Science”–were held Sunday evening at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View. The event honored the...
View Article‘MacGyver’ Consultant Makes His Living As Physics Professor
HAMMOND, La. (KPIX 5) — Fans of the hit CBS Friday night show ‘MacGyver’ may wonder: how many of the title character’s creative contraptions are based on real science? And can any of them be made at...
View ArticleUCSF Researchers: ‘Fentanyl Is A Tsunami’; Want Drug Classified As A Poison
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) -– Researchers at the University of California in San Francisco want to change the way we think of Fentanyl. In a paper published in the journal Addiction, they called it a...
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Big, Bright Super ‘Snow’ Moon Lights Up Bay Area Sky
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A full snow moon came out in all its ‘supermoon’ splendor Monday night, much to the delight of Bay Area skywatchers. (CBS) According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, February’s...
View ArticleScience Of Chocolate Is Center Stage At The Exploratorium After Dark On...
The science of chocolate takes center stage at the Exploratorium After Dark on Valentine’s Day. The museum’s Director of Public Relations Melissa Alexander shared details. For tickets to this and the...
View ArticleWet Winter Could Lead To More Earthquakes, UC Berkeley Researchers Claim
BERKELEY (CBS SF) – The snow is finally starting to melt after a long wet winter, and according to researchers, that could mean more earthquakes. Researchers at U.C. Berkeley say the weight of the rain...
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Nobel-Winning Cal Tech Physicist Murray Gell-Mann Dies at 89
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who brought order to the universe by helping discover and classify subatomic particles, has died at the age of 89. Murray...
View ArticleSan Jose Students Vie for $1 Million Prize for Ocean Research
SAN JOSE (KPIX) — A team of Valley Christian High School students is one of three final groups — and the only one under-age — competing for a $1 million prize sponsored by NOAA, the National Oceanic...
View ArticleStanford Physicist Among Scientists Awarded Prestigious Prize For Invention...
MOUNTAIN VIEW (CBS SF) – The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics ceremony in Mountain View will award 3 physicists a multi-million dollar prize for their 1976 theory of “supergravity.” The...
View ArticleSeries Of Small Earthquakes Could Mean Big One Is About To Strike, Research...
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – Scientist may finally know how large earthquakes get started: with many smaller ones. Scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory used new computer techniques to more...
View ArticleApple CEO Tim Cook Donates $5 Million To Fight Amazon Wildfires
CUPERTINO (CBS SF) – Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has joined the international outcry over the fires devastating the Amazon rainforest. Cook announced Monday that Apple will be donating to fight the Amazon...
View ArticleNew Tech Extracts Stem Cells From Wisdom Teeth
SONOMA (KPIX 5) — No one enjoys a trip to the dentist, but for some, it just might be a key to unlocking the healing power of the human body. Dario Manatta arrived at the offices of Sonoma Valley Oral...
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Look Up! Venus Joins The Moon For A Celestial Pairing
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – For about two hours Saturday evening, the crescent moon and Venus will pair up for a celestial treat. (CBS) Just after sundown, Venus will hover almost directly above and...
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Thousands Of Slimy Sea Pickles Invade Monterey Beaches
MONTEREY (CBS SF) – A bizarre invasion is happening along the California coast. Thousands of so-called ‘sea pickles’ are washing up on beaches in Monterey. The gummy-like creatures are usually found in...
View ArticleStanford Research Project Turns Common Jellyfish Into Bionic Sea Creatures
STANFORD (KPIX 5) — Researchers at Stanford University have found new ways to explore the world’s oceans with a cyborg creation that seems straight out of science fiction. After nearly six years of...
View ArticleNASA’s New Supersonic Wind Tunnels Could Make Moon Landing By 2024 A Reality
MOUNTAIN VIEW (KPIX) – NASA officials are hopeful and optimistic they will be able to achieve President Trump’s goal of sending a male and female astronaut to the moon by 2024, but stopped short of...
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Look Up! The Super Pink Moon Is Playing Tonight
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – There is a celestial double-feature playing in the night sky: a Supermoon and a Pink Moon. Super Pink Moon seen on April 07, 2020 in Surbiton, United Kingdom. (Photo by Ker...
View ArticleFireworks Canceled? Fourth Of July Lunar Eclipse Is Still Happening
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – As cities and counties across the Bay Area are canceling their Fourth of July fireworks displays, the Lunar eclipse scheduled for tonight is still on! The night sky has planned...
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Newly Found Comet NEOWISE Over Bay Area Skies Won’t Return For 7,000 Years
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – There’s a rare sight in the skies for the next few weeks. A newly-discovered comet will be visible over the Bay Area, just after sunset, and it won’t be back for thousands of...
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How To Catch Comet NEOWISE In The Twilight Sky
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) – A lot of people will be going outside to see Comet NEOWISE this weekend, as the rare spectacle makes its first appearance in nearly 7000 years in the twilight sky. The faint...
View ArticleCDC: Hispanic, Black Children More Likely To Be Hospitalized For COVID-19,...
NEW YORK (AP) — Racial disparities in the U.S. coronavirus epidemic extend to children, according to two sobering government reports released Friday. One of the Centers for Disease Control and...
View ArticleUC Climate Experts Warn California Wildfires, Extreme Weather Events Will Get...
BERKELEY (KPIX) – If it seems like California’s wildfires and weather are becoming more extreme, climate experts say they are, and, in fact, it’s going to get worse. The orange and dark skies over the...
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Scientists Say Bay Area Birds Piped Down During Coronavirus-Induced ‘Silent...
SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) — San Francisco birds started singing differently in the quiet of the coronavirus lockdown, says a study in Science. Before, urban white-crowned sparrow’s breeding territories were...
View ArticleProp 14 Stem Cell Research Funds For CA Institute For Regenerative Medicine...
OAKLAND (AP/CBS SF) — A proposition that would keep alive first-of-its-kind stem cell research program in the East Bay was leading after the polls closed on Tuesday. With about 6 million votes counted,...
View ArticleThree Bay Area Scientists Tapped For President-Elect Biden’s Coronavirus...
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) – On Monday, President-elect Joe Biden identified the members of his new coronavirus advisory board and three of them are from the Bay Area. When President-elect Biden announced...
View ArticleLook Up! Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Monday Night
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — The Leonid meteor shower will peak from Monday night into Tuesday morning. If conditions are right, it could be a stellar cosmic show. The Leonids began streaking across the...
View ArticleCOVID Backlash: Critics Don’t Believe Science Supports Bay Area’s Latest Stay...
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) – The latest pandemic restrictions in the Bay Area have come under heavy criticism from some who don’t believe health officials are adequately following the science. “There is no...
View ArticleFry’s Electronics Shutting Down Operations; Victim Of COVID-19 Fiscal Woes
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — Long-time San Francisco Bay Area retail mainstay Fry’s Electronics has announced it will be shutting down its 31 stores across nine states as a result of the fiscal impact of the...
View ArticleMarin Study Reveals Cancer Killing California Sea Lions Is Caused By STD
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) – For decades, sea lions along the West Coast have been plagued by a lethal form of cancer. Now, research conducted at the Marine Mammal Center has determined the cause of the...
View ArticleHayward Teachers Bring Science to Life With Home Kits For Students
HAYWARD (KPIX) — Two Hayward teachers are bringing hands-on science activities to life for students learning from home during the pandemic. With two magnets, first grader Charles Aguilar learns about...
View ArticleStudents Rising Above: East Bay Scholar Excels at Science and Soccer
OAKLAND (KPIX ) — For many students, science classes can be a challenge. But for this week’s Students Rising Above scholar, science is his second favorite pastime next to soccer. For the past few...
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