Stanford, California - Engineers looking for inspiration for better drone camera design might want to set their gaze toward lovebirds.

San Francisco, California - “Girls in Engineering” summer camp for middle school students, organized by the University of California, Berkeley, College of Engineering. The goal of the program is to inspire the next generation of female engineers by providing 5th-, 6th- and 7th-grade girls a taste of different careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. The program was developed by senior female faculty, staff and graduate students at the College of Engineering.

San Diego, California - A pair of paleobiologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego have determined that the world’s most numerous and diverse vertebrates ­– ray-finned fishes – began their ecological dominance of the oceans 66 million years ago, aided by the mass extinction event that killed off dinosaurs.

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued a proclamation declaring July 4, 2015 as Independence Day in the State of California.

Sacramento, California - The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) voted unanimously, 5-0, Friday to adopt a slightly revised version of the original proposed decision in its residential rate reform proceeding. The decision directs California’s investor-owned utilities to begin piloting time-of-use programs in preparation for transitioning all residential customers automatically in 2019.

San Francisco, California - Former State Senator Leland Yee, Brandon Jackson, Keith Jackson, and Marlon Sullivan all pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco to charges that they engaged in racketeering activity announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson. By changing their pleas from “not guilty” to “guilty” the four codefendants now each have acknowledged they have participated in the affairs of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity.