The Latest Stories From KQED Science
| DEEP LOOK: Carpenter Bees Stab Flowers to Steal Their Nectar | | With their short tongues, Valley carpenter bees can’t easily drink the nectar from tubular flowers. So they use powerful mandibles to slice into the blooms and steal it. It’s called nectar robbing, since the plants don’t get the benefit of being pollinated by the enormous bees. | | |
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| 'Time Is of the Essence': Pelosi Urges Feds to Step Up Monkeypox Response | | Pelosi called the current supply of monkeypox vaccine provided by the federal government 'woefully inadequate to meet the current need' in places like San Francisco. | | |
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| As Big Basin Finally Reopens, Indigenous Stewardship Key Among Plans for Park's Rebirth | | Big Basin Redwoods State Park finally gets a limited reopening this week, nearly two years after a devastating wildfire. Appeals for renewed forms of Indigenous stewardship are part of its rebirth. | | |
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| Decades of 'Good Fires' Save Yosemite's Iconic Grove of Ancient Sequoia Trees | | Saving the centuries-old trees in Yosemite's famed Mariposa Grove took hard work from firefighters but also half a century of intentional fires. | | |
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| A History of San Francisco's Wild, Raw Farallon Islands | | The rugged islands that sit 27 miles West of the Golden Gate Bridge are extremely inhospitable, but a host of people have lived on them over the centuries. | | |
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| 'They All Deserve Options': California Opens Pathway for Students With Major Cognitive Disabilities to Earn High School Diploma | | Potentially 80,000 students — 10% of the overall number of students enrolled in special education in California — would benefit from the new pathway. | | |
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