The annual event known as the Orionids meteor shower lights up the sky every fall, and you can see it during its peak, in a ...

Financial site, WalletHub released its rankings for the best colleges and universities for 2026 in the country and in California.

How is your university handling the AI craze? Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Weiquan Lin / Moment / CG Tan / E+ / CAHKT / iStock / Getty Matriculating college students are beginning their ...

Up to 98 percent of the energy of an earthquake goes into flash heating rocks, not shaking the ground, new research shows. The finding could help yield better earthquake forecasts ...

A tiny worm that leaps high into the air — up to 25 times its body length — to attach to flying insects uses static ...

Physicists have devised a new model to account for the discomfort that airline passengers know all too well. By Alexander Nazaryan Bjorn Birnir dreads an airplane seatmate asking what he does for a ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A California attorney must pay a $10,000 fine for filing a state court appeal full of fake quotations generated by the ...

The annual U.S. News Best Colleges rankings were released today, with top-ranked schools staying mostly steady from last edition as the methodology was largely unchanged. The top 10 National ...

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UC San Diego remains one of the top public universities in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report. Why it matters: Many prospective students, parents and school counselors use the annual ...

A San Francisco Bay Area university earned a spot in the nation’s top five in the 2026 U.S. News Best Colleges rankings released Sept. 23. Stanford University tied Yale University at No. 4 for best ...