Caltech dedicated the Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Center, a 70,000‑sq‑ft facility with below‑grade labs and collaboration space to advance quantum sensing and gravitational‑wave research.

Fragments pulled from Arlington Canyon on Santa Rosa Island date to about 13,000 years and bolster a coastal‑migration story of early Americans.

K2 Space is opening a Seattle‑area engineering hub to support production of large, high‑power satellites after its Gravitas demonstrator reached orbit. The move taps local aerospace talent and follows new defense and commercial contracts.

Cedars‑Sinai opened a Neuro NICU that pairs neonatology, neurology and rapid genomic testing to speed diagnosis and treatment for newborns with complex brain conditions.

YouTube reached a confidential settlement with a Florida teen who sued over alleged social‑media addiction, exiting a California bellwether trial while Meta, Snap and TikTok face a July jury.

CHLA and UCLA were awarded up to $17.25M to form IMPACT‑LA, a West Coast site in ARIA’s international autism trials network that aims to speed therapies and build inclusive datasets.

UCLA published a step‑by‑step protocol and open code for an AI‑assisted platform that tracks drug responses in thousands of bioprinted tumor organoids. The methods aim to speed functional testing and move personalized therapy screening closer to clinical use.

SpaceX has agreed to provide Reflection AI with GB300-class compute at its Colossus campus near Memphis in a deal that could reach $6.3 billion.

A Parkfield study using machine learning found short slow‑slip events that boost low‑frequency quakes, prompting scientists to rethink how California's hazard models account for transient stress.

Justice Department files show Jeffrey Epstein deposited sperm with California Cryobank and signed a 2016 contract leaving the samples to his estate; the material’s whereabouts remain unclear.

A new multi‑university preprint finds just 10–15 minutes of AI help can reduce persistence and independent problem‑solving. The finding complicates how schools and workplaces should use chatbots.

A UCLA‑led phase 3 trial found adjuvant selpercatinib dramatically lowers recurrence risk in a rare lung‑cancer subtype. The results could reshape testing and care.

Arizona will lead NNME Southwest, coordinating training and employer partners across five states to tackle a projected shortfall in chip industry workers.