Fitness trainers say they are putting more dance moves in their routines, and high-profile trainer Shaun T has a dance workout called Cize for streaming or on DVD and at gyms including Bay Club in Santa Monica. Dancing is naturally social, and experts say that in dance fitness classes, students...
My first hike happened by accident.
It was forced upon me, sort of.
It was the Sunday when the eclipse of the super blood moon took place. My husband and I planned to take our daughter to see it at Griffith Observatory, where live classical music would be played.
I thought it seemed like a great...
I sat at the edge of my seat, waiting to be called up. Hands freezing, heart racing, I tried to slow my breathing and calmly remember what to do. Breathe, got to breathe.
The instructor called my name. I walked to my spot, inhaled and expanded my rib cage. Nodded.
And began to sing "Shenandoah."...
New York City psychologist Linda Hamilton theorizes that the reason some of us love horror movies is that it takes us out of our normal life.
"Halloween and scary movies, scaring people and being scared, is not boring," said Hamilton. "We are attracted to doing things that are unusual. How many...
At first blush, Susan King seems like the type of person you'd meet at a neighborhood pub in London after work: cheerful, bubbly, given to exuberant exclamation. There's nothing about her personality that gives you a sense of what she does for a living. She calls herself an "intuitive counselor"...
Los Angeles may be a city obsessed with youth, but it is also home to the world's largest collection of Hadean zircons — the oldest known material on Earth.
Hadean zircons are tiny — about the same width as a strand of hair — but they contain a huge amount of information about the earliest days...
Just in time for Halloween, NASA has released ghostly images of the icy geysers shooting out of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. More data taken during the Cassini spacecraft’s deepest-ever dive through the plume will be released in coming days as scientists use the spacecraft’s data to answer questions...
It's black. It's massive. It's shaped like a skull. Meet the dead comet that will fly safely past Earth this Halloween.
At 10 a.m. on Halloween morning, a mysterious and vaguely skull-shaped body from space will hurtle past our planet, coming within 1.3 times the distance between the Earth and...
For decades, breast cancer has been less common in black women than white women, yet killed black women at a higher rate. One of those gaps has finally closed. Unfortunately for black women, it's the first one. A new report suggests black and white women are now being diagnosed with breast cancer...
One man's trash heap is a scientist's treasure trove. A fragmented skeleton dug out from a Spanish landfill may force scientists to redraw their theories on the ancestor of humans and all other apes.
Pliobates cataloniae, described in the journal Science, reveals that the common ancestor of humans,...
Here’s some eye-opening news from plastic surgeons: A face-lift may make you look younger, but it won’t necessarily improve your self-esteem.Doctors asked 59 patients who were planning get face-lifts to answer 10 questions designed to assess their feelings of self-worth. The patients stated how...
