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Scientists warn a new weather phenomenon dubbed the 'FIREWAVE' will devastate UK cities as summers become hotter and drier
Daily Mail
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August 15, 2025
Scientists have warned that a new weather phenomenon dubbed the 'firewave' has the potential to devastate UK cities. As climate change makes summers hotter and drier, there is a growing risk that wildfires will spread within the heart of the UK's...
Editorial: California can’t afford to allow Texas to rig 2026
The Mercury News - California
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August 15, 2025
President Donald Trump believes he is “entitled to five more seats” – his words – in the U.S. House of Representatives. And he’s acting like it. Reportedly pushed by his aides to prevent losing his House majority to Democrats in November 2026,...
The true cost of abandoning science
Newsday - New York
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Any trip to the dark night skies of our Southern California deserts reveals a vista full of wonder and mystery — riddles that astrophysicists like myself spend our days unraveling. I am fortunate to study how the first galaxies formed and evolved...
Snail eye regeneration offers new insights for human vision research
The Manila Times
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August 15, 2025
GOLDEN apple snails (Pomacea canaliculata), a freshwater species native to South America, are best known in Southeast Asia as a major agricultural pest. Introduced to the Philippines in the 1980s to boost food supply and farmer income, the snails...
California is sunsetting oil refineries without a plan for what’s next
Grist Magazine
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August 15, 2025
Within the past year, two major California oil refineries have announced plans to shutter — moves that will pull about one quarter of a million barrels from the state’s daily supply of gasoline. For a state that has been a standard-bearer in the...
New technology reveals how autism disrupts brain cell communication
PsyPost
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August 15, 2025
Autism affects at least 2% of children in the United States – an estimated 1 in 59. This is challenging for both the patients and their parents or caregivers. What’s worse is that today there are no drugs that treat the main symptoms of autism....
$500 grants offered for Southern California teachers’ innovative class projects
The Sun - California
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August 15, 2025
California Credit Union Foundation and North Island Credit Union Foundation invite Southern California teachers who have innovative class project ideas to apply for grants through the foundations’ fall Teacher Grant program. In the program, 10...
UC Davis Receives $3.6 million Grant for Eye Gene Therapy Research
Managed Healthcare Executive
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August 15, 2025
The National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a five-year, $3.6 million grant to the UC Davis Department of Ophthalmology to explore a new way to treat vision loss using gene therapy. The UC Davis team is...
MBA nominates ICE Mortgage Technology’s John Hedlund as 2026 vice chairman
Housing Wire
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August 15, 2025
“Our members will benefit greatly from John’s decisive leadership, his proven track record during his career to innovate and adapt to all market conditions, and his admirable passion to push for a better future for real estate finance...
Map: Minor Earthquake Strikes the San Francisco Bay Area
The New York Times
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August 14, 2025
Shake intensity Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 3 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as “weak,” though the earthquake may be felt outside the areas shown. All times on the map are Pacific time. The New York Times A light,...
Things to do in Los Angeles County, Aug. 14-22
Los Angeles Daily News - California
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August 15, 2025
Watercolors by Keni "Arts" Davis are part of the exhibit called "Ode to ‘Dena" through Oct. 12, 2025 at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. The show celebrates the Black artistic and inter-generational legacies in Altadena,...
California valley fever cases hit record highs again in 2025, state reports
Los Angeles Times
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August 15, 2025
The latest California numbers suggest 2025 will be another record-smashing year for valley fever, the illness linked to drought and precipitation and spread by fungal spores. There were 6,761 cases reported through the end of July, according to...
Trump ordered to restore millions in frozen science funding to UCLA
Fortune
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A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore millions of dollars in National Science Foundation grants it has withheld from the University of California, Los Angeles, saying they were made in violation of her earlier court...
Oceanwell And Las Virgenes Municipal Water District Launch California Water Farm 1 With Capacity Of 60 Million Gallons Per Day As Six Agencies Join Project
MENAFN
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August 15, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) Water Farm 1 scales from 10 MGD to up to 60 MGD to provide reliable supplies for seven water agencies across drought-prone Southern California OceanWell's subsea desalination pods harness ocean pressure to reduce energy use...
Is California Really More Gerrymandered Than Texas? It’s Complicated.
The New York Times
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August 15, 2025
In a recent defense of Republican efforts to redraw Texas’ congressional maps with a greater Republican advantage, Vice President JD Vance criticized the current maps in California as an extreme gerrymander. There, he suggested, Democrats had...
Positivity resonance predicts lasting love, according to new psychology research
PsyPost
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August 15, 2025
An analysis of data from 148 long-term married couples suggests that couples who display greater positivity resonance tend to score higher on a measure of enduring love. Moment-to-moment fluctuations in positivity resonance were also associated...
Preserving Black Churches: New $60 Million Grant Cycle Opens, with Los Angeles Congregations Among Recipients
L.A. Focus - California
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August 14, 2025
Black churches have long stood as pillars of African American life—centers of worship, organizing hubs during the Civil Rights Movement, and spaces where community bonds are forged. Now, a major national initiative is offering new funding to help...
The Brothers That Just Do Gutters Opens Los Angeles, CA Location
Franchise Opportunities
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By: The Brothers that just do Gutters | 0 Shares 22 Reads August 14, 2025 // Franchising.com // LOS ANGELES – Robinson O’Brien-Bours is launching The Brothers That Just Do Gutters of Los Angeles, CA—serving Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Culver City,...
Good government group won’t actively oppose California’s counter-redistricting plan
Spectrum News Austin
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August 15, 2025
WASHINGTON — Good government groups like Common Cause routinely criticize states that redraw their congressional district boundaries for partisan advantage, but they are refusing to attack California’s new push to gerrymander its congressional map...
California Fish and Game Commission Increases Fishing Opportunities for the 2025 Recreational Groundfish Season
Redheaded Blackbelt - California
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August 15, 2025
On August 14, 2025, the California Fish and Game Commission (Commission) adopted emergency changes to the state’s groundfish regulations so that recreational ocean fisheries are no longer constrained by quillback rockfish (Sebastes maliger)....