Scientists take aim with tiny algae and their giant promise as the biofuel solution of the future.

It's not the extra few feet of water that make sea level rise so dangerous. It's the extra few feet during a storm during El Niño during high tide, say researchers.

Sometimes it pays to think small. Researchers at UC San Diego's Nano3 Lab are out to prove that nanostructures — objects one million times smaller than the diameter of a human hair — can have a giant impact on science, technology, medicine and the economy.

The cliffs along the San Diego coastline are more than just fodder for picture postcards — a number of residential homes sit perched atop them, and in certain areas, the railroad tracks that serve Amtrak and County Coaster come within several feet of the cliff edge.

Did the Bible's King David and his son Solomon control the copper industry in present-day southern Jordan? Though that remains an open question, the possibility is raised once again by research reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

UC San Diego has launched a new and innovative program that pairs high school teachers with graduate students. The pairs will be working hand in hand in high school classrooms during the school year. The hope is that the grad students will inspire high schoolers to study science down the road. The grad students also will share their knowledge of ground-breaking science with teachers, who in turn will share classroom management tips. The Socrates Fellows Program was funded by a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

Students who take UC San Diego's Physics of Surfing class get to go to beach, ride a board into the waves and see how physics works in the real world. Back in the classroom, they learn about how waves form, how they travel through the world's oceans and that surfboards follow the laws of fluid mechanics.

Scripps researchers are studying CO2 sequestration to determine if it's a viable solution to combat global warming.

Scripps graduate student investigates cause of mucilage outbreaks in her native Adriatic waters

Scripps researchers race to make desalination eco-friendly while there's still time

Scripps researchers gather geomagnetic signs to determine if Earth's magnetic field is currently headed toward a complete reversal.

Students have more room to eat and study. They are now able to shop for groceries right on campus. New restaurants and a night club are set to open later this year.

Building upon a legacy of coastal science at Scripps, high-tech tools are opening new avenues for researchers to track sand movements and further explain beach systems.

Scripps Oceanography research suggests that climate change will require a complete rethinking of water delivery systems in the West. That'll be step one.

Anna Lang is a doctoral candidate at the Jacobs School of Engineering who has dedicated herself to elite-level cycling for three years and become one of the fastest female sprinters in the country.

Fifty years after Sputnik, satellites peering down on Earth have become the most valuable scientific tool to study the global environment and offer much needed insight into the future of our planet.

The estuary stands as the last barrier between the Pacific Ocean and pollution.

Scripps scientists explore Earth's final frontier.

UC San Diego undergraduate students have designed, built and deployed a network of five weather-monitoring stations as a key step toward helping the university use ocean breezes to cool buildings, identify the sunniest rooftops to expand its solar-electric system, and use water more efficiently in irrigation and in other ways.

After two decades watching atmospheric oxygen levels drop, a Scripps researcher's conclusions about climate could leave one feeling light-headed.

A former desert oasis faces environmental challenges, a water crisis and someday the Big One. Why we can't let the sun go down on the Salton Sea.

Emperor penguins can flourish in locales where few other animals roam. But scientists now wonder if they adapt to a new threat: climate change.

A network devoted to recording the state of the oceans is nearing its full complement. Will it remain intact as its decades-long mission begins?

Finding that the obesity epidemic is spreading from person to person through close social ties.

A journey to a coral reef chain hidden in the Central Pacific forces scientists to revisit the definition of a pristine environment.

A journey to a coral reef chain hidden in the Central Pacific forces scientists to revisit the definition of a pristine environment.

Andrew Chan, Daniel Leu and Vincent Bantigue talk about their attempt to win the 2007 Triton Junkyard Derby.

Developed for the Birch Aquarium at Scripps. The Greenhouse Effect provides a quick view of the impact that global warming has on our planet.

Biological activity in the oceans might make the difference between clear skies and cloudy, Scripps researchers say.

The goal of CSE 125 is to experience the design and implementation of a large, complex software system in large groups.

The historic city calls upon Scripps and a multifaceted team of experts to help decipher the mysteries lying beneath its waters.

From Explorations Magazine 2004, Scientists give a closer look at assessing coral populations.

From Explorations Magazine 2004, Scientists investigate coral disease.

From Explorations Magazine 2002, Scientists investigate marine pollution.

The process at Birch Aquarium at Scripps of Raising Moonjellies.

A rare look at some of the most fascinating images of Life in the Sea.

A fascinating adventure of Life with the Penguins.