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Our dogs understand us better than they’ve been given credit for — and scientists say they have the brain wave…

To help California fight climate change, air quality regulators would like to see 20% of the state’s farmland go organic…

A power outage that forced hundreds of patients to be evacuated at a Boyle Heights hospital last summer was the…

In a Dec. 2 tweet, Richard H. Ebright, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University, stated that…

As Indiana officials struggled to contain an outbreak of HIV among people who injected drugs, then-Gov. Mike Pence reluctantly followed…

The measles virus is resurging in the U.S. despite the long-standing availability of a vaccine that provides nearly life-long immunity….

The SpaceX rocket that is intended to take humans back to the moon and someday to Mars completed its third…

For five years, an elusive tormentor of animals hid from authorities in east Riverside County as 10 dogs were injured…

A molecular lookalike of the intoxicating compound found in marijuana has become popular among teens in the United States, especially…

As measles cases pop up across the country this winter — including several in California — one group of children…

NASA does difficult, inspiring and ambitious things — and it does them, in the immortal words of President Kennedy, because…

Add one more likely culprit to the long list of known cardiovascular risk factors including red meat, butter, smoking and…

A bipartisan congressional agreement on NASA’s final budget for the current fiscal year offers a glimmer of hope that the…

Los Angeles anesthesiologist Dr. Marilyn Singleton was outraged about a California requirement that every continuing medical education course include training…

Maria Mercado’s 5- and 7-year-old daughters haven’t been to the doctor for a check-up in two years. And it’s not…

SAN FRANCISCO —  County by county in California, as fentanyl overdoses escalate, local prosecutors are turning to a novel legal strategy…

Is a frozen embryo a child? The Alabama Supreme Court says yes. In ruling this month that three couples who…

Think of meticulously handcrafted objects, and certain things come immediately to mind: fine art, exotic cars, luxury timepieces. But Pasadena…

A child’s individual differences, skills and experience matter a lot in the learning process, and learning to read is no…

Paul Maley has spent much of his life chasing solar eclipses. He has witnessed 83 solar eclipses from 1960 to…

Roots Community Health Center was slammed in 2020, with lines for its COVID-19 testing stations stretching around the block and…

Given the long list of major catastrophes in the world — melting polar ice, raging wars, the disappearance of early-bird…

An estimated 2.8 million people in the U.S. contract infections each year from bacteria resistant to antibiotics, according to the…

Public health officials in Alaska have disclosed the first known human death from Alaskapox, a virus typically found in small…

People who have had COVID-19 have a significantly higher risk of suffering chronic fatigue than those who haven’t had the…

In a darkened Amsterdam conference hall this summer, a panel of industry and academic scientists took the stage to announce…

Lawmakers and regulators in Washington are starting to puzzle over how to regulate artificial intelligence in healthcare — and the…

Halfway through what will be the biggest purge of Medicaid beneficiaries in a one-year span, enrollment in the government-run health…

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will lay off hundreds of employees this week in anticipation of massive funding cuts in the…

Do you sleep with animals? No, I don’t mean people who, you know, do wild and crazy things in bed….

A recently arrived traveler at Los Angeles International Airport is the source of the first case of measles in L.A….

A new bill would require California workplaces to stock their first-aid kids with a nasal spray that can prevent opioid…

As a chronic pain sufferer, I sometimes surprise people by telling them that my pain doesn’t have a physical cause….

Those pandemic puppies are growing up to be a public health concern. The latest California data shows increased rates of…

As the toll from the COVID-19 pandemic continued to mount, antiviral medications such as Paxlovid were hailed by health officials…

The California Department of Public Health recently updated its COVID guidance to allow people who have tested positive to exit…

The plagiarism accusations first struck Claudine Gay when a right-wing activist published several examples of unattributed text from the Harvard…

Late last year, a spacecraft containing samples of a 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid landed safely in the desert after a 1.2-billion mile…

You are correct. It is, in fact, extremely unusual to be on hurricane watch in Southern California. If Hurricane Hilary…

Judge James Ho of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals wrote an opinion last week that attracted a lot…

Uncle Johnny made my dressThat cheap Spandex, she looks a mess. Beyoncé’s Grammy-winning album elevated Uncle Johnny’s name in the…

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are taking artificial intelligence to the next level — by sending it into space…

Arthur Yu was exhausted, but he chalked it up to being a new father. Usually active, Yu was finding himself…

At the Pacific Neuroscience Institute in Santa Monica, scientists are eager to explore whether a psychedelic chemical found in a…

Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged Wednesday to hold the line against a proposed law that would ban youth tackle football in…

Emperor penguin chicks emerge from their eggs in the coldest days of Antarctica’s winter. For the first months of their…

In the first couple of years of the COVID-19 pandemic, Peter Hotez, an expert in vaccines and tropical medicine at…

Our political press, in its wisdom, has anointed Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy the “winners,” whatever that means, of last…

What’s rarer than a blue moon? A super blue moon! The astronomical phenomenon, in which the second full moon of…

It was the last hour of a 30-hour dive, nearly two murky miles below the ocean’s surface. A remotely operated…

When Nicole Villagran signed up to do her first Tough Mudder course, she thought she’d be getting an entertaining, if…

As the movie “Oppenheimer” has shown to millions, scientists disagree, have fragile egos, experience office politics and have problems in…

After recovery comes identification. With new rapid DNA technology, investigators no longer have to send all their material to labs…

Space shuttle Endeavour’s giant orange fuel tank that propelled astronauts into space on more than two dozen missions was lifted…

SAN FRANCISCO —  Isaias Lopez was dying, but he didn’t know it. Lopez was slumped against a wall in the Tenderloin…

Brianna Mckenzie was feverish and shaking in her bed as night drew near at MLK Community Hospital. The pregnant woman…

Los Angeles County has become the latest local government to accuse pharmacy benefit managers — the little-known middlemen of the…

Sharri Shaw walked out of the CVS on Vermont Avenue in South Los Angeles in 2019 believing she had a…

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off 100 contractors last week and will scale back part of the first-ever effort to…

It seems anywhere scientists look for plastic, they find it: from the ice in Antarctica, to the first bowel movement…

It used to be fairly easy to dismiss Florida’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, as a clownish anti-vaccine quack…

Pharmacists are trained to safely dispense medications and avoid mistakes. But in recent years, a chorus of pharmacists have spoken…

An elephant at the Los Angeles Zoo died this week, the second in about a year and just days before…

Cutting-edge NASA imaging technology can detect early signs of a plant virus that, if unaddressed, often proves devastating for wineries…

The pandemic is far from over, as evidenced by the rapid rise to global dominance of the JN.1 variant of…

The first SpaceX launch of 2024, which took place Tuesday night, included something that none of the company’s prior launches…

Under a microscope, this drug-resistant superbug looks as benign as a handful of pebbles. Yet carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, or CRAB,…

Flu season is just around the corner, and the time is fast approaching for residents to consider getting their annual…

At long last, the final journey of the last space shuttle ever built, Endeavour, and its giant orange external tank…

The Los Angeles Zoo has released about 170 endangered frogs to their native habitat in the San Gabriel Mountains as…

As a fourth-year ophthalmology resident at Emory University School of Medicine, Dr. Riley Lyons’ biggest responsibilities include triage: When a…

Tucked into a state Senate bill revising aspects of the Medical Board of California is a brief but unambiguous clause…

For climate change deniers, it was confirmation of a long-held suspicion: Scientists cannot be trusted. Days after publishing research that…

Chinese food has been an American favorite for well over 100 years, but it wasn’t until the success of Panda…

We are all familiar by now with the movement to eradicate the names of racists and other villains from the…

Inside the glassy waiting room of a Hollywood clinic, a 33-year-old man sat and listened for his number to be…

The San Francisco Bay Area fared better during the COVID-19 pandemic than many other largely populated areas, with a cumulative…

Coronavirus transmission is once again spiking in California entering the winter holiday season — and a new subvariant may be…

With a little work, you may be able to see a rare celestial sight in the next few days just…

At first glance, Matt Smith seems too chill to be a knight. His “shining armor” is just a backpack, a…

A new coronavirus shot will be available starting this week, but the big question is how many people will get…

NASA’s new official instruction to the U.S. public regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena — the odd things in the sky that…

Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers have voted to authorize a strike if no agreement is reached with their…

The planet has experienced an astounding six-month run of record-breaking temperatures, including the hottest November on record, federal officials announced…

It wasn’t a bird! It wasn’t a plane! It was a rocket that lit up the Southern California sky Thursday…

The latest government advisories on the new monovalent COVID-19 vaccines were not much of a surprise. On Monday, the Food…

Although shipments of the newest COVID-19 vaccines started arriving in Southern California pharmacies and clinics last week, Kaiser Permanente members…

At least 32 people attending a union conference at the Westin Bonaventure in downtown Los Angeles last month were sickened…

When man bites steak, nobody cares. But when a steak bites back (in a manner of speaking) the world pauses,…

Nearly a century ago, when global dominance in scientific research began shifting to the United States from Europe, our nation…

Every day for the last eight months, someone I love dearly has strained to find a reason to live. There…

Inside the row of workshops in an industrial stretch of Pacoima, men labored over hefty slabs of speckled stone, saws…

To anyone who has paid even a modicum of serious attention to COVID-19 and its treatment, ivermectin is the zombiest…

Some of those taking Ozempic or Wegovy are learning that too much of a good thing is never good. Semaglutide,…

No cause of death has been disclosed for Dianne Feinstein, the longtime California senator who struggled with evident health problems…

Katalin Karikó and Dr. Drew Weissman, American scientists whose long collaboration has revolutionized the making of vaccines and raised the…

Forecasting the future is difficult. But here’s an easy prediction: The anti-vaccination movement in the U.S. and globally is going…

Not long ago, comparative psychologist Christopher Krupenye and a colleague visited the Leipzig Zoo in Germany, where both had worked…

Los Angeles was once the best place in the world to see the universe. The most important things we know…

The orchestra tuned as the last musicians ambled into Schoenfeld Hall at USC. On a muggy Sunday afternoon in September,…

More than 75,000 nurses, nursing assistants, technicians, pharmacists and other healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente went on strike in California…

An unusual disc-shaped object from space landed last month on the barren sands of a U.S. military testing ground. Scorched…

SACRAMENTO —  California is the first state to ban doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to the controversial diagnosis known…

Here we go again. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court announced that it will decide whether the Food and Drug Administration…

REDDING —  Five days after giving birth, Melissa Crespo was already back on the streets, recovering in a damp, litter-strewn water…

When Megan Costello heard on the radio this fall that a newly approved vaccine for pregnant people could protect their…

During the Fox News debate between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a study published in the…

To understand the path forward in regulating social media, it’s helpful to look to a transformative technology from the previous…

If life exists elsewhere in the solar system, it may well reside in the ocean of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa….

Earth has millions of fungi species, but the official emoji library has only one: Amanita muscaria, the red-capped, white-spotted mushroom…

BLUFF, Utah — When Mayor Ann Leppanen learned that the moon would cross in front of the sun above her…

The Kaiser Family Foundation recently reported that the annual cost of family health insurance jumped to nearly $24,000 this year,…

In the preface of the new book by vaccine expert and pro-science crusader Peter Hotez, there are several acknowledgments of…

Rock Hudson’s death in 1985 from AIDS started a robust and overdue public discussion about the disease. Until then, despite…

A new book by a Stanford neurobiologist offers a jarring proposition: that humans do not have free will and thus…

One of California’s riskiest volcanoes has for decades been undergoing geological changes and seismic activity, which are sometimes a precursor…

The removal of a species from the government’s endangered species list is often a cause for celebration, as it means…

This week, Simon & Schuster finally published “The Book of Animal Secrets: Nature’s Lessons for a Long and Happy Life,”…

Over the weekend, as I pondered a volume of forgotten lore — it was Emily Wilson’s gripping translation of Homer’s…

With Halloween just days away, and the wider autumn and winter holiday season fast approaching, now is the time for…

Are we alone? Is life around us a cosmic accident that only happened once on this lonely planet, making human…

In recent times, whenever a government lawsuit swears at common sense, at the facts and at the public interest, it…

Respiratory virus season is ramping up in California, prompting health officials to renew their calls for residents to get vaccinated…

Scientists have developed an antibody treatment that shows promise in blocking the potentially deadly effects of fentanyl for nearly a…

When Sultan Al Jaber, the president-designate of COP28, unveiled plans for a first-ever Day of Health at the upcoming United…

Cuando Wendy Solano oyó por primera vez la palabra “silicosis”, su marido José Raúl García León ya padecía la incurable…

As scientific breakthroughs go, the one announced last March by a team from the University of Rochester was especially eye-opening….

Individuals who are skeptical of vaccines for themselves are also more likely to question the need or efficacy of getting…

Advertisement Advertisement Nathan Gray is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an…

June Voros sprang from her couch as a high-pitched beep warned that she needed a quick dose of sugar. Her…

A pair of months-old mountain lion siblings who were orphaned about a week ago found a temporary home at the…

SpaceX’s Starship Mars rocket and spacecraft launched for the second time early Saturday morning, making it through liftoff and a…

When Wendy Solano first heard the word “silicosis,” her husband Jose Raul Garcia Leon was already suffering from the incurable…

Los Angeles County public health officials are investigating a mysterious respiratory illness affecting a rising number of dogs. Its origin,…

Rising rates of suicide among older adults drove the number of such deaths to a historic high in the United…

A star neuroscientist at USC is facing allegations of misconduct after whistleblowers submitted a report to the National Institutes of…

For Briana Jones, a young Black mother in San Francisco, a city program called the Abundant Birth Project has been…