Biology

Your Little Round Belly (Bacteria edition)

Stumbling out of a holiday food haze? Feeling fat? Wondering what separates you and your good intentions about your waistline from those who seem perpetually and effortlessly svelte? Well, maybe-- just maybe-- it's less your inability to resist Christmas cookies and your little used gym membersh ... More >>

Beirut In-store at Amoeba Tonight (Free)

Much-hyped Euro-folk reviver Beirut plays a free show tonight at the Hollywood Amoeba Records at 6:30 p.m. He'll be supporting his new album The Flying Club Cup (Ba Da Bing), which OC Weekly reviewed here. Amoeba is located at 6400 Sunset Blvd. (323-245-6400). In the meantime, enjoy this video of ... More >>

Because You're Ugly: Knitting in Biology 101

Okay, so I admit I never did get to dissect a lab rat or frog for high school biology—though, I did have my go at a formaldehyde-soaked mink and fetal pig, which wasn't nearly as disgusting as I thought it'd be—and I never did opt for the conscientious alternate assignment to write a 50-page res ... More >>

Hellooooooo, Mr. Wilson!

Enviros give pro-development supervisor the kid-glove treatment

Marine Wildlife Cruises

Ocean Institute

UC Irvine Eggheads on the March

Twenty UC Irvine science and engineering researchers were named last week as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, representing the largest class this year of any American university or institution. Eighty-five current and former UCI faculty members have previously earn ... More >>

The Science of Hockey

Discovery Center

Obama's Expected Lift on Stem-Cell Ban Cheered at UCI

President Barack Obama is expected to sign an executive order on Monday rolling back restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, fulfilling a campaign promise and repealing one of the most bone-headed stances taken by his predecessor, George W. Bush.News of Obama's expect ... More >>

Junior Oceanographer

Ocean Institute

Fitness Hike

Laguna Coast Wilderness Park

This Valentine's Weekend May Be Your Best Chance to Eat Oysters for Years to Come

Laguna Coast Wilderness Park

Meditation Workshop

Bowers Museum

Native Plant Hike

Laguna Coast Wilderness Park

Intermediate Mountain Bike Ride

Intermediate Mountain Bike Ride

Tall Tail

Whale and Dolphin Cruise

Fossil Fuel

A Dinosaur Book 
of World Records

Brutal Honesty

Sea Squirt Winter Camp at Aquarium of the Pacific

Real Gene-ius

A conversation with OCs most elusive expert on race mixing

Environment and Sports

A conversation with OCs most elusive expert on race mixing

Monkey Love

Intimacy on the primate family tree

The Fertile Sea

This years red tide is killing the fishing season, but surfers are stoked

Death Row Defender

UC Irvines William Thompson exposes the soft underbelly of ironclad DNA evidence

Snorting Coke Off a Hanson Kids Butt Cheek

And even more fun with the Unicorns

Fish-Free Sea

You may live to see it in your lifetime

Design Matters

You can sit on irony, but its hard and unyielding

Not So Natural Selection

Annie Tran is a future doctor, current creationist

You Say You Want an Evolution

IMAXs Galapagos offers a rare view

Total Rehash

Cloning Arnold Schwarzenegger

Sex Kills

Cloning Arnold Schwarzenegger

Covert Campaigner

Cox quietly funnels $900,000 to 2000 Senate run

Fitness Hike

Laguna Coast Wilderness Park

Edible and Useful Plant Hike

Crystal Cove

There May Be a Bad-Driver Gene, UCI Scientists Find

Frederik Vandaele / Flickr / Creative Commons​Some people suck at driving. If you do not suck at driving, you probably dislike these people.  But now you're not allowed to, according to UC Irvine scientists: After all, you can't hate someone for what they're born with.Science Daily reports th ... More >>

Winter Solstice Morning Walk

Laguna Coast Wilderness Park

New Study: Nearly Half of Fast Food Soda Fountains Contaminated With Fecal Bacteria

The Upstairs Room @ flickr.com CC BY-NC-SA 2.0​Not that I need to raise more alarms about food safety. We already have mercury in our sushi, unsafe airport food, and E-coli outbreaks which happen too often. We could go on for hours on the subject. But this one news item? Well, it's disturbin ... More >>

Acapulco Gold Meet Toxic Black Mold

​Opponents of marijuana legalization are trotting out cops, physicians and driving-while-impaired stats in their bid to spook California voters before November's election.However, one buzzkiller has now produced the most damning pot pooh-poohing "evidence" of all:TOXIC BLACK MOLD!!!

Full Moon Hike

Laguna Coast Wilderness Park

Telomere Repair

Alex's Bar

The Show: As commonplace as punk music has become over the years, there's something incredibly esoteric about watching the genre's hardcore pioneers. Last  night as several bands from punk's early days celebrated Frontier Record's 30 year anniversary, group after group connected intensely with ... More >>

Frontier Records' 30th Year Anniversary at the Echoplex Last Night

​Frontier Records' 30th Year AnniversaryNov. 7, 2010EchoplexAs commonplace as punk music has become over the years, there's something incredibly esoteric about watching the genre's hardcore pioneers. But last night, as several bands from punk's early days celebrated Frontier Records' 30th year ann ... More >>

Non-Browning Canadian Apples to Be Vetted By USDA

​ According to HuffPo, a Canadian biotech firm has applied to the US Department of Agriculture to be allowed to grow and sell genetically modified apples that resist browning when cut. The so-called "Arctic" apples have the gene that causes oxidation suppressed, using technology from an Australian ... More >>

(hed) P.E.

The Grove of Anaheim

Author Tracks Pterodactyls Among Us

​We told you last month about an academic in Long Beach warning about flying predators: snakes formally known as Chrysopelea paradisi to be exact. Now, another academic in Long Beach is illuminating the world about a different, much larger flying predator--and this one not only glows in the dark, ... More >>

Gettin' Made: She Blinded Me With Crafty Science

One of my best friends is a microbiologist, and with that comes a special love for all science-themed crafts. So when I saw a link to the Scientific Culture shop on Etsy, it was love at first smarty-pants sight. Lab Ware art post cards by Scientific Culture​ After the jump, get your s ... More >>

The Adolescents and the Dickies at Alex's Bar Friday Night

Javier CabralEager line waiting outside Alex's Bar​To those who didn't consider punk rock to be "just a phase" in high school, last Friday night at Alex's bar was somewhat of a culmination. The Grim, the Dickies and the Adolescents--all local, monumental '80s bands that started playing just a li ... More >>

Completeness

South Coast Repertory

Tyler the Creator Announces Free Odd Future Show (Well, Kinda)

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​Tyler the Creator's new album, Goblin, is out today. To celebrate, the charismatic Odd Future frontman last night tweeted that you can get get a wristband to their show at the Troubadour tonight if you buy a copy of the album at Amoeba today.

Bad Religion's Greg Graffin to Teach at Cornell; Has Bird Fossil Named After Him

Chad Sengstock/OC WeeklyGreg Graffin at not a lecture​Remember that one cool professor you had in college, who let you skip classes as long as you turned in awesome papers and never minded if you came to lectures hung over? Well, now that Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin is teaching Evolution ... More >>

[UPDATED with Stellar Author, Contributors:] Kids of Stressed-Out Moms Age Faster: UCI Research

​UPDATE, AUG. 2, 5:24 P.M.: Dr. Pathik D. Wadhwa (pictured here) was lead author of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper describing UCI's research into stressed-out moms and their faster-aging children. It's a wonder Wadhwa has time to write anything given all he specializes i ... More >>

Free St. Vincent Show in LA--Today!

​To celebrate the release of St. Vincent's much anticipated third album, Strange Mercy (4AD), the artist born to this world as Annie Clark will perform a free show at LA's Space 15 Twenty (across the street from Amoeba Music). If you buy the album at Amoeba, Fingerprints, Origami, Rhino, or V ... More >>