After years of getting Angelenos to jump, leap and kick their way through a cardio workout, celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson is taking it to the floor — literally.
Her new dance class Tava (it's a mashup of her initials and va, meaning "go" in Spanish) ditches the jumps in favor of low-impact,...
Remember the childlike excitement of looking forward to doing homework just because you got a brand new set of pens? Think of fresh active wear as a fitness motivator. Stylish new gear can be just the inspiration you need to crush your next workout. Looks for this season range from bold takes on...
Your health should be a priority every day of the week, but that's easier said than done.
Inspired by Meatless Mondays, the nationwide push for (very) part-time vegetarianism, we asked three Los Angeles-area nutritionists to share their suggestions about what to quit — or take up –— once a week.
...In a reversal of its previous position, the staff of the California Coastal Commission is recommending approval of a hotel and housing complex on the last big block of private land on the Southland coast.
The proposal to build an upscale hotel, retail space and hundreds of homes on a coastal bluff...
Kevin Hart was breathing hard. "I feel like I'm having a Hart attack!" he joked to a crowd of about 1,000 doing body weight exercises and running along with him at Grand Park, across from Los Angeles City Hall, this month.
Most people know the pint-sized, fast-talking comedian as one of the funniest,...
Glowing fish are turning out to be far more common than scientists had assumed, and now researchers swimming in Southern California waters may have figured out why.
After using a custom-built "shark eye" camera to confirm that swell sharks can see one another glow, the research team reported that...
Glowing fish are turning out to be far more common than scientists had assumed, and now researchers swimming in Southern California waters may have figured out why.
After using a custom-built "shark eye" camera to confirm that swell sharks can see one another glow, the research team reported that...
Great news for wine, coffee and tea drinkers: A new study finds that all three beverages are correlated with a healthier and more diverse microbiome.
Researchers also found that consuming sugary drinks, snacking, eating a lot of carbohydrates, and drinking whole milk are correlated with a less...
Walter Kohn, a UC Santa Barbara physicist who shared a Nobel Prize for a widely used theory in materials science — and who warned that "science is both a wonderful and terrible force in our world" — died April 19. He was 93.
Kohn's health had declined in recent months after he broke his hip in...
Taking a census of the microbes that live in the human gut is not glamorous work, but it’s important, given our new understanding of the gut microbiome's role in human health. And a full picture of humanity's microbial gut population has been a mystery. Until now.
After combing through thousands...
This is your brain on stories. By tracking the blood flow in people’s brains as they listened to a storytelling radio show, scientists at UC Berkeley have mapped out where the meanings associated with basic words are encoded in the cortex, creating the first semantic atlas of the brain.
The findings,...
At least 18 months after sustaining a traumatic brain injury, first-time concussion victims continue to need more sleep and to suffer more daytime sleepiness than do healthy people, says new research. But even as they run higher risks of such injuries as vehicle crashes, sufferers routinely underestimate...
What is the financial toll of having a kid with a food allergy? The answer may depend on how much money you have.
A new study published this week in Pediatrics found that food-allergic children from households that earn less than $50,000 a year incur 2.5 times the cost of emergency room visits...
You don’t need a brain to learn something new – not if you’re a slime mold, anyway. Scientists who watched Physarum polycephalum search for food found that the slime mold could learn to ignore certain chemical threats.
The findings, described in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, contradict...
The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a coal black moon orbiting a shiny red dwarf planet known as Makemake in the outer reaches of the solar system.
The newly discovered moon is estimated to be 100 miles across and it orbits the dwarf planet at a distance of just 13,000 miles. For comparison,...
Los Angeles insists that it had the best of intentions as it erected the monument of granite and sculpted earth that is now rising from a dry bed of Owens Lake 200 miles to the north.
Department of Water and Power officials saw it as a gesture of reconciliation for taking the region's water more...
A handful of preliminary studies in recent years has raised hopes the epidemic of U.S. child obesity has stabilized or reversed. But new research finds continued growth in our kids' girth, suggesting that self-congratulation would be premature.
Among children from infancy through age 18, rates...
Scientists have discovered vibrant coral reef ecosystem near the mouth of the Amazon River that stretches roughly 3,700 square miles -- even though coral isn't supposed to be able to grow there in the first place.
The reef described in the journal Science Advances could shed light on how these...
There are rubies in the sea.
Not gemstones, but ruby-colored seadragons that have been spotted in the wild for the first time, in the waters off Western Australia.
The discovery made by marine biologists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography confirms that there is a third species of seadragon,...
I took up Japanese taiko drumming because it looked fierce. Legs are planted wide as arms wield bachi drumsticks in broad arcs, striking barrel drums in communal precision.
Everyone wears a scowl that borders on delight.
For me, taiko felt like a way to express aggression in a productive way ––...
Actress Emayatzy Corinealdi is getting increasingly used to being in the spotlight. She costars in "Miles Ahead," actor-director Don Cheadle's new film about jazz trumpet legend Miles Davis. She also appears in the Amazon original series "Hand of God" and in the "Roots" miniseries remake that will...
Living in Los Angeles means having to keep up with all the diets: Atkins diet, the Whole 30, the Paleo diet. There's no shortage of advice on what you should be eating.
Now there's finally a cookbook for the politically aware Chicano activist. "Decolonize Your Diet" serves up Mexican food recipes...
Most of the cosmic rays that rain down on our planet today were forged in a nearby supernova that exploded no more than a few million years ago, according to a new study.
The findings, published Thursday in the journal Science, confirm another recent study that suggests a large star in our galactic...
Driven by stark increases in the numbers of white women and Native Americans who are intentionally killing themselves, suicide rates in the United States jumped 24% in the years between 1999 and 2014, says a new government report.
Following a slow-but-steady rise in suicides from 2009, the yearly...
Scientists examining the bones of a baby titanosaur from Madagascar have found that the young sauropods actually looked like miniature adults. The findings, described in the journal Science, shed fresh light on the development and behavior of these large long-necked dinosaurs.For many creatures...
Building off the powerful gene-editing technology known as CRISPR, researchers have created a new tool that can target and change a single letter in a sequence of DNA.
The new technique, known as base editing, can be programmed to turn the DNA base cytosine (known in the DNA alphabet as C) into...
Since Americans first heard the term global warming in the 1970s, the weather has actually improved for most people living in the U.S. But it won't always be that way, according to a new study.
Research shows Americans typically — and perhaps unsurprisingly — like warmer winters and dislike hot,...
The scourge of loneliness has been with us since time immemorial, but only in recent years has its toll on human health gained appreciation. New research shows that feeling lonely or socially isolated bumps up a person's average risk for coronary heart disease and stroke -- two of the developed...
The West Coast's abundant fisheries are at risk as the region's waters become more acidic, a group of scientists warn.
Researchers from the West Coast Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia Science Panel released a report this month that projects dire changes to ocean chemistry and marine life, and recommends...
The patients filing into Dr. Ronesh Sinha's clinic in Redwood City, Calif., were like nothing he had ever seen.
As a doctor in training, Sinha studied which patients were usually diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes: they were at least middle-aged, ate too much fast food, drank soda and didn't exercise.
...The patients filing into Dr. Ronesh Sinha's clinic in Redwood City, Calif., were like nothing he had ever seen.
As a doctor in training, Sinha studied which patients were usually diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes: they were at least middle-aged, ate too much fast food, drank soda and didn't exercise.
...After a decades-long search, scientists announced early this year that they had detected gravitational waves probably coming from the merger of two black holes back in September. Now, a team of scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope say they spotted a brief flash of gamma rays...
Psilocybin, the mind-altering chemical that gives some mushrooms magical properties, can do more than induce trippy states. A new study finds that it reduces the sting of social rejection.
By tracking how, exactly, psilocybin affects the brain's chemistry and activity levels, the research suggests...
Sixty-five million years ago a massive asteroid slammed into Earth, causing tsunamis, earthquakes, fires, a global winter, and the end of the age of the dinosaurs.
But what if the asteroid had glided safely past our planet? Would dinosaurs still be here today?
New research suggests the answer is...
Your DNA doesn’t determine when you lose your virginity, but it may play a larger role in the matter than scientists had thought.
A new study identifies 38 specific places in the human genome that appear to be associated with the age at which people first had sex. These spots affect a range of...
An endangered butterfly could get a new lease on life thanks to a breeding program at the San Diego Zoo.
The population of the Quino checkerspot butterfly, known for its distinctive checkerboard-patterned orange, black and white wings, has drastically declined because of urban development that...
Love that cup of joe? It's OK to indulge — new science shows that black coffee has excellent benefits, including:
1. Lowering your disease risk. A Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health study published in the American Heart Assn. journal Circulation found that drinking as many as four cups of...
Long lines of idling cars waiting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border are a part of life in San Ysidro.
Concerned about the neighborhood's proximity to the world's busiest land port of entry, a local community development agency has launched a study to analyze the health risks associated with air pollution...
Unlike some group fitness classes where you can daydream while you work out, the classes at the new Sandbox Fitness in the Beverly Grove neighborhood of L.A. require your full attention.
That's because in most cases you exercise while balancing on a wobbling, elevated surfboard in an indoor sandbox....
After Ronald Reagan became America's most recognizable Alzheimer's patient, well-meaning friends, relatives and even strangers would routinely stop his daughter, Patti Davis, to ask: "How is he doing?"
Only occasionally would someone ask, "And how are you doing?"
It's understandable, of course,...
Coming on the heels of a couple of revolutionary rocket landings by SpaceX and Blue Origin, the 32nd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colo., was abuzz last week with talk of a new golden age of space travel.
Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, who also heads private space firm Blue...
A white-footed city mouse scampering around the urban parks of New York City may look identical to his country cousins living in the rural forests just a few miles away, but genetically they are worlds apart.
In a paper published this week in Biology Letters, researchers report that just 400 years...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week acknowledged that its experts have confirmed public health officials' worst fears: that Zika virus infection is the direct cause of a massive outbreak of the birth defect microcephaly throughout Brazil.
That grim pronouncement might...
