Behind today’s AI-ready chips lies a hidden California story: national labs in Berkeley, Livermore & Sandia cracked the physics, optics & systems of EUV lithography — turning lab science into trillions of dollars in impact. californiacurated.com/2025/09/26/t...

It all just keeps getting weirder and weirder: Wild squirrel terror in Marin: two people sent to the ER after sudden attacks, including one woman who says, “How do you get a squirrel attached to your leg off?” abc7.com/post/vicious...

A Californian, and one of the great unheralded scientists of the 20th century, Clair Patterson determined Earth’s age at 4.55 billion years and exposed the dangers of lead pollution, leading to regulations that drastically improved public health. open.substack.com/pub/californ...

🌊 Off California’s coast lies a lost superisland: Santarosae. During the Ice Age it was three times the size of Maui, home to pygmy mammoths and some of North America’s earliest settlers. californiacurated.substack.com/p/the-lost-i...

When you drive a California highway and see land cut away for the road, take a moment to look closer: those roadcuts are windows into the Earth’s history, waiting for curious eyes. californiacurated.com/2023/11/20/r...

The beautiful San Gabriel Mountains loom over Los Angeles. But how much do you really know about these magnificent urban peaks? californiacurated.com/2023/08/31/t...

Scientists at Scripps oceanographic institution are using seaweed from the ocean right off their own shore to reduce methane emissions from cattle, which surprisingly, is a major source of the greenhouse gas. californiacurated.com/2025/09/19/a...

🐮💨 Cow burps lead to massive methane emissions, but Scripps Oceanography scientists are studying a seaweed that can slash cow methane emissions by up to 99%! Our friends at @californiacurated.bsky.social stopped by the lab to learn more about #AsparagopsisTaxiformis. ⬇️

Spent a day down in San Diego at the great @scripps_ocean to investigate how scientist are using seaweed to slow climate change: open.substack.com/pub/californ... #california #climate

The first onshore wave energy pilot plant just broke ground at the port of Los Angeles. We checked it out. open.substack.com/pub/californ...

You see them all over your yard, hopping playfully in search of seeds and insects. But did you know that the dark eyed Junko has actually evolved for urban life? californiacurated.com/2024/12/09/d...

There may be thousands of ghost lobster traps off the coast of California and the Channel Islands, and they continue to kill marine life. It’s time to get rid of them. californiacurated.com/2025/05/07/t...

California’s state rock, serpentine, tells a story of deep Earth forces and unique ecosystems found nowhere else. It can also be quite pretty. californiacurated.com/2023/04/20/s...

Wave power in LA. californiacurated.com/2025/09/11/r...

I’ve been putting together a story on the incredible deep-sea creatures discovered in California waters in recent years, and today MBARI added another gem. Their remotely operated vehicle Doc Ricketts captured a stunning video of the newly discovered bumpy snailfish. youtu.be/hwsl-ebVVoU

The Wedge is the legendary California surf break that ended the football career of actor John Wayne and that remains one of the most dangerous waves in the world. californiacurated.substack.com/p/the-physic...

🌊🌲 From tide pools to towering Sierras, California is a land shaped by science, history, and wonder. Follow California Curated (that’s us!) for stories that dive deep into the coast, the desert, and everything in between. Discover California, one story at a time.

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid struck Earth, wiping out most dinosaurs. UC Berkeley’s Luis and Walter Alvarez later traced the impact to the Chicxulub crater in Mexico, reshaping our understanding of mass extinction. open.substack.com/pub/californ...

Baby dinosaur snuck into the house this morning.

I went down kind of a crazy rabbit hole trying to answer the question: Where does the sand on Southern California beaches come from? Turns out it’s pretty interesting. open.substack.com/pub/californ...

Meet the chaparral’s MVP: laurel sumac: folding leaves in the heat like tacos, fragrant blooms that charm pollinators, and berries that feed songbirds. Resilient, aromatic, and pure SoCal magic. 🌿🔥 #NativePlants californiacurated.com/2024/12/23/l...

Converse Basin Grove in the Sierra Nevada was once the largest concentration of giant sequoias, but logging between 1892 and 1918 cut down about 8,000 trees, leaving fewer than 100 standing today. californiacurated.substack.com/p/giants-fal... #conservation

Researcher Karen Lloyd studies single-celled microbes that manage to survive in rock 5 kilometers or more below the Earth’s surface, where they live impossibly far from sunlight and oxygen, and push the boundaries of life’s relationship with time and energy. www.quantamagazine.org/the-pursuit-...

Converse Basin Grove in the Sierra Nevada was once the largest concentration of giant sequoias, but logging between 1892 and 1918 cut down about 8,000 trees, leaving fewer than 100 standing today. californiacurated.substack.com/p/giants-fal...

The legendary California break that ended the football career of actor John Wayne and that remains one of the most dangerous waves in the world. californiacurated.substack.com/p/the-physic...

I went down kind of a crazy rabbit hole trying to answer the question: Where does the sand on Southern California beaches come from? Turns out it’s pretty interesting. open.substack.com/pub/californ...

I went down kind of a crazy rabbit hole trying to answer the question: Where does the sand on Southern California beaches come from? Turns out it’s pretty interesting. open.substack.com/pub/californ...

This is an excellent piece about how scientists discovered the culprit behind the mass die-off of sea stars along the West Coast: a warm-water bacterium called Vibrio pectenicida. Researchers are now working on breeding and restoring resistant populations. www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

Imagine a secret Grand Canyon beneath the waves off California’s coast, teeming with all sorts of unusual creatures. The Monterey Canyon stretches 95 miles and plunges more than 11,800 feet deep, rivaling the scale of Arizona’s Grand Canyon. open.substack.com/pub/californ...

One of America’s great roadtrip highways. californiacurated.com/2024/05/21/t...

When you think Cold War research, the atomic bomb, some of the biggest secrets in the US government, you think of Washington DC or the East Coast, not California. But that would be wrong: californiacurated.com/2024/08/13/b...

Using old EV batteries for solar storage seems like a no-brainer, and one Lancaster, California, company is doing just that. californiacurated.substack.com/p/how-a-lanc...

The legendary California break that ended the football career of actor John Wayne and that remains one of the most dangerous waves in the world. californiacurated.substack.com/p/the-physic...

The science behind California’s most dangerous wave: californiacurated.com/2025/08/27/t...

The ocean faces threats from overfishing, trawling, and climate change, but California’s Channel Islands show recovery is possible—Marine Protected Areas prove the ocean can rebound when given space. californiacurated.substack.com/p/what-david...

Albert Einstein spent three winters in Pasadena. Hung out with dignitaries and Charlie Chaplin. He loved it. californiacurated.com/2023/08/04/e...

This is a paper nautilus, an open-ocean octopus that creates a delicate, paper-thin shell for protection and buoyancy. They live off the coast of California in the ocean’s twilight zone, where faint light filters through the midwater. 🌊🦑 #TwilightZone #PaperNautilus #DeepSea #California

California ecologists are bringing a glimmer of hope back to the Presidio, releasing Silvery Blue butterflies to fill the ecological void left by the long-lost Xerces Blue. This creative conservation effort may reshape what it means to reverse extinction in action. www.kqed.org/news/1205298...

The latest addition to our California wildlife Etsy store. The Pacific Yellowtail. Great sport fish. A cool gift for your favorite fisherman? californiacuratedus.etsy.com/listing/4325...

Is desalination the solution to California’s drought woes? It’s complicated. californiacurated.com/2025/08/20/c...

Death Valley draws visitors despite record-breaking summer heat, with officials warning that even “moderate” desert temperatures can quickly become deadly. People go anyway. Of course they do. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/t...

Camp Pendleton, the sprawling U.S. Marine Corps base in Southern California, also doubles as an important wildlife refuge, protecting some of the largest remaining stretches of coastal habitat in the state. californiacurated.com/2025/02/20/n...

Just finished this book this morning. It is one of the best business books I’ve read in a while. As good as Chip War. amzn.to/45V8pgk

Camp Pendleton, the sprawling U.S. Marine Corps base in Southern California, also doubles as an important wildlife refuge, protecting some of the largest remaining stretches of coastal habitat in the state. californiacurated.com/2025/02/20/n...

🚢🌊 California’s deep ocean is teeming with life, history, and mysteries we’ve barely begun to understand, yet the West Coast has no active human-occupied research submersibles. Let's change that. californiacurated.substack.com/p/bring-huma...

Just 80 miles off California’s coast lies Davidson Seamount, a mountain taller than anything in the Sierra, hidden entirely beneath the waves. Its an alien landscape, teeming with life few humans have ever seen. californiacurated.substack.com/p/davidson-s...

In the 1960s, a scientific revolution reshaped how we see our planet — and it all ran straight through California. 🌍 From ocean floors to seismic faults, here’s the untold story of how plate tectonics took over science. 🧪 californiacurated.com/2025/03/24/t...