Kalanick disclosed Tuesday that he has sold off all his Uber stock — estimated at more than $2.5 billion — and is resigning from the board of directors. | Continue reading
Educators often focus on the language skills students who are still learning English lack, but bilingualism is a huge neuro-strength. The ability to speak more than one language means a strong, healthy and complex brain. | Continue reading
A change in a prompt can influence how a student responds thinks. A study found that using a problem-based curriculum can help students develop their own hypotheses and take risks — all signs of deeper-level learning. | Continue reading
Math teachers are trying to shift the lens through which students interact with the subject by prioritizing how math affects people and celebrating what individuals contribute when doing math. | Continue reading
Restaurants without diners are popping up all over the place. "Ghost kitchens" and menus that exist solely in smartphone apps such as DoorDash and Uber Eats seek to feed diners' appetite for delivery. | Continue reading
Legend says taking even a rock from the Gold Rush town of Bodie brings terrible misfortune. The curse is so powerful that rangers have been inundated with returned artifacts. | Continue reading
Students, parents, and teachers must understand that the dyslexic’s brain isn’t “broken” or deficient, just organized in a different way. And there is specialized reading instruction specifically for the different brain structure. | Continue reading
San Francisco joins a number of cities — New York, Paris and Oslo, Norway — that have banned cars from parts of their metropolitan areas. | Continue reading
Supervisor Norman Yee wants to forestall bumpy rollouts — like that of electric scooters by startups Lime, Bird and Spin — through the creation of a new city agency to evaluate proposals for new tech or services. | Continue reading
You've called into Forum. You've commented on our Facebook page. You want to understand what's happening with PG&E. We answer your most common questions. | Continue reading
Bay Area start-ups hope to replace slaughterhouses with Petri dishes by growing meat in a lab. | Continue reading
For years, California regulators mistakenly allowed oil companies to put their wastewater in protected aquifers. | Continue reading
As many as one in four San Joaquin Valley families with private wells are unknowingly drinking dangerous amounts of uranium. | Continue reading
The move is aimed at California as it fights one of the world’s largest agriculture companies. | Continue reading
Dialup, a free app, arranges calls between strangers at predetermined times, connecting people over topics like "breakfast" and "Bob Ross." | Continue reading
Self-driving cars will be part of ridesharing fleets, reducing the number of personal vehicles on the road and helping wean motorists off gasoline. | Continue reading
Once you see it, you can't unsee it. The Bay Area is filled with blatant examples of hostile design. | Continue reading
As smart speakers proliferate in homes, childhood development experts are monitoring how kids interact with devices and make informed choices about what they hear. | Continue reading
Scientists are probing the deep ocean with an underwater robot, and thanks to live streaming video we can watch, too. | Continue reading
As San Francisco's population exploded in the 1850s, speculators looked to cash in by delivering fresh drinking water to the new boomtown. | Continue reading
A bill advancing through the Legislature would allow outdoorsy and culinarily courageous Californians to engage in a very particular form of roadside dining, so long as they apply for a state permit after-the-fact. | Continue reading
It's hard to be civil without being empathetic. But researchers say our natural instinct for empathy may be going out of style. | Continue reading
Huge shortages loom in the skilled trades, which require less — and cheaper — training. Should that make students rethink the four-year degree? | Continue reading
Piedmont is surrounded on all sides by Oakland. A look back at the history of how the city was founded. | Continue reading
Clusters of old military ships are anchored side by side in Suisun Bay. Most of them are decades old. | Continue reading
With services like Homeaway, VRBO and Airbnb, there are more short-term rentals than ever before. Bolinas resident Steve O’Neal says that's making it even harder for local families to find housing for themselves. | Continue reading
When food-delivery startup Munchery closed suddenly in January, it left behind tens of thousands in unpaid bills to local bakers and chefs. | Continue reading
Americans consumed almost 37 pounds per capita in 2017, but that wasn't enough to reduce the country's 1.4 billion-pound cheese surplus. The stockpile of cheese started to build several years ago. | Continue reading
Studies suggest that curiosity is linked to joy on the job, social skills and even a happy disposition. And in an academic context, greater curiosity generally predicts greater success. | Continue reading
The event's roots go back to 1994, when a counterculture group called the Cacophony Society hosted Cheap Suit Santas. | Continue reading
There are many ways young children encounter stories. A new study finds a "Goldilocks effect," where a cartoon may be "too hot" and audiobooks "too cold" for learning readers. | Continue reading
Congestion has gotten a lot worse since 2010 -- and thousands of ride-service vehicles are at the root of the misery. | Continue reading
By identifying thinking routines for students, teachers can help deepen metacognitive skills that are applicable to all areas of life. | Continue reading
You can shove water back from the land, or let the land flood, but either way, San Francisco Bay is getting higher. Along more than 400 miles of shoreline, where at least 40 communities touch water, rising seas are challenging our choices about how to live with them. | Continue reading
Behind the walls of San Quentin State Prison, a select few inmates are developing websites, software and apps for technology clients in the Bay Area and beyond. | Continue reading
Federal data show first-time buyers in California increasingly rely on family for help. | Continue reading
Company acknowledges 'mistake' in virtually severely limiting data speeds to firefighters' emergency command post. | Continue reading
Planning a project or creating a study schedule for an exam with the end goal in sight can help give students greater clarity and kickstart motivation when it might seem to lag the most. | Continue reading
When Chip Conley started at Airbnb at the age of 52, he brought with him decades of experience as a top executive in the hotel industry. Conley quickly realized, however, that he had a lot to learn to about life at a tech startup where he was twice the age of most employees. He j … | Continue reading
With six needle-like mouthparts, mosquitoes saw into you, drink your blood and sometimes make you sick. | Continue reading
With California’s problems of affordability and congestion, many of us are paying a higher price for an ever-shrinking sliver of California paradise. | Continue reading
As home prices continue to reach new heights in the Bay Area, more and more people are fleeing the region in search of more affordable housing. | Continue reading
The prettiest pennies are made in San Francisco. Take a trip inside the S.F. Mint. | Continue reading
A look back at a city where traffic chaos carried a high price -- especially for those who tangled with the city's growing number of streetcars. | Continue reading