On Jupiter, Fourth of July fireworks last year-round.
New images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal a new feature of the gas giant: brilliant blue auroras.
“These auroras are very dramatic and among the most active I have ever seen,” Jonathan Nichols, who studies auroras at the University of...
For the first time in 30 years, the gaping hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica is showing signs of healing.
Every year since it was discovered in 1985, scientists have watched the hole grow bigger from one Antarctic spring to the next, eventually covering 10.9 million square miles in 2015.
...Have your weekly pickup basketball games left you with pain in your knees that just won’t go away? Do you suffer from chest pain, lung disease or kidney failure? Has an accident left you with partial paralysis? Or, would you like to have a more rewarding sex life?
If any of these conditions — or...
Some people finish a marathon, or climb Mt. Whitney, or get down to a certain weight, and that's it.
That's their finish line.
They view that particular challenge as a sort of bucket-list accomplishment, and when they cross that finish line, they all but cross out fitness as a priority in their...
Chips made from powdered crickets. Milk derived from potatoes. And dehydrated grass-fed beef organs.
These are some of the new health foods coming your way that may be tough to swallow, no matter how seemingly good for you they might be.
Earlier this year, the annual Expo West held in Anaheim brought in...
In May, amid tabloid reports that her rocker husband and business partner, Ozzy Osbourne, was involved with another woman, Sharon Osbourne, 63, told a riveted TV audience that she had kicked Ozzy out of their house. “I can’t keep living like this,” she said on the set of the CBS show she co-hosts,...
What are the most common ways to die in America? The answer depends on how old you are, whether you’re a man or a woman, and your racial and ethnic background, a new report shows.
Alzheimer’s disease accounted for 5% of deaths among U.S. women, for instance, but only 2.1% of deaths among men. Accidents...
Against a grim backdrop of rising suicide rates among American women, new research has revealed a blinding shaft of light: One group of women — practicing Catholics — appears to have bucked the national trend toward despair and self-harm.
Compared with women who never participated in religious...
What microbes are lurking in the Boston subway system? A team of scientists armed with sterile cotton swabs and a bit of soap rode the Red, Orange and Green lines of the T to find out.
What they discovered surprised them.
It turns out that the slick metal poles and well-worn hand grips used by...
Just five months after the Zika virus was declared a global public health emergency, a scientific team’s feverish efforts to create a vaccine against the viral threat have borne promising fruit: With a single shot of two different types of vaccine, experimental mice gained near-total immunity to...
Attention parents: If you’d like to see your kids do better in school, have them close their books, set down their pencils and go outside to play.
That’s the latest advice from an international group of experts who studied the value of exercise in school-age kids.
“Physical activity before, during...
Hunkered down in the sub-basement of the Norman W. Church Laboratory for Chemical Biology, underneath a campus humming with quantum teleportation devices, gravity wave detectors and neural prosthetics, Rick Gerhart chipped away at a broken flask.
Blowtorch in hand, he pulled the softened glass...
After residents of Flint, Mich., started drinking water from the Flint River in April 2014, the chances that young children would have dangerous levels of lead in their blood increased by nearly 50%, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Researchers examined...
The United Kingdom’s decision to exit the European Union has affected all aspects of British society – even science.
On Friday, the Royal Astronomical Society, which works to advance science research in the U.K., took a break from promoting new findings in astronomy and geophysics to weigh in...
Hotel gyms used to amount to a few dusty pieces of outdated equipment stashed in a utility room.
No more.
“There have been big changes when it comes to hotel fitness over the past 10 years,” said celebrity trainer Harley Pasternak. “Traditionally hotel gyms used to have just one brand of cardio...
In Southern California, it's not unusual to find people who treat their cars as if they were alive — like they’re pets, or children.
But the comparison between cars and living things might not end there, according to one UCLA archaeologist.
From the primitive vehicles at the dawn of the American...
Imagine holding something that weighs nearly one-third as much as you do — with your tongue. Chameleons execute this impossible-sounding feat before every meal.
Now scientists think they know how the lizards do it. The secret is in the spit, according to a study published this week in the journal...
Self-driving cars have a lot of learning to do before they can replace the roughly 250 million vehicles on U.S. roads today. They need to know how to navigate when their pre-programmed maps are out of date. They need to know how to visualize the lane dividers on a street that’s covered with snow.
...Sorry, summer travel is no excuse.
Whether you are a road warrior on back-to-back business trips or a leisure traveler taking advantage of your annual vacation days, there are plenty of ways to stick to your diet and fitness goals while on the road (or even if you just don’t have time to make it...
Summer just wouldn’t be summer without relaxing by the pool and throwing pool parties.
But pools present many safety concerns, especially for children. Here are seven ways to keep summer pool time safe, according to John Drengenberg, consumer safety director at UL, the safety consultation and certification...
The hunt for an HIV treatment that roots the virus out of its hiding places and kills it just got more interesting.
A human antibody that already has shown promise in protecting people against HIV infection has demonstrated the ability to suppress the resurgence of the infection for as long as...
Gun-control advocates in the U.S. often point to Australia as proof that Americans would be safer with a ban on semiautomatic weapons. In the land down under, there has been a total of zero mass shootings since rapid-fire guns were outlawed in the 1990s.
But a new analysis of crime in Australia...
The latest thing technology is trying to make obsolete: visiting the doctor's office.
An increasing number of apps and online services are offering women a way to get birth control, including emergency contraception, without having to visit a doctor in person.
California is one of a handful of...
More American adults are eating better, but a new analysis of American diets between 2000 and 2012 shows that the trend of improved nutrition is largely limited to middle- and upper-income white Americans. The result: a widening nutrition gap separating white Americans from African Americans and...
Astronomers scanning the sky for distant worlds have discovered two of the youngest exoplanets ever found. The two worlds, born around separate stars, are each just a few million years old – mere infants compared to the planets in our roughly 4.6-billion-year-old solar system.
The findings, described...
We intuitively know that our personalities and temperaments— whether we’re introverts or extroverts, how we respond to novelty or adversity, whether we’re hard-driving or laid back— are the result of a complex interaction of nature and nurture.
We likely start with some general social tendencies...
The sidewalks are scalding. The sun is blinding. It’s over 100 degrees across much of Los Angeles. We’re in the midst of a bonafide heat wave and it’s only June.
What the heck is going on?
“Things are definitely out of whack here,” said Bill Patzert, a climatologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory....
Leave it to scientists to take something as awesome as chocolate and make it even better.
By running liquid chocolate through an electric field, they were able to remove up to 20% of the fat while making the end product tastier.
Like so many great scientific discoveries, this one happened by accident....
A sign at the entrance to Aja Malibu asks visitors to drop their cellphones in a basket. They are verboten during a stay at the new deluxe retreat, along with laptops and tablets. And don't even think about smuggling in those Doritos or the rest of that takeout macchiato.
“We're not going to deprive...
We’re told again and again that “diets don’t work.”
So what are we supposed to do?
Many people are turning to mindfulness – noticing the here and now without judgment – in hopes of breaking bad eating habits.
“It’s about creating a new lasting relationship with your eating. It’s not deciding...
In the future, perhaps we’ll be mining our landfills and fishing through our oceans for the raw materials to make fuel. Using a two-catalyst process, a joint U.S.-China team of researchers has figured out how to take discarded plastic products, from grocery bags to plastic bottles, and turn them...
You might think that cushioned running shoes were designed to give your feet a break. But scientists have discovered that lacing up causes us to use more muscles in our feet than we thought.
After attaching tiny wires to the feet of 16 intrepid volunteers, researchers found that certain muscles...
Despite pressures from overfishing and changing ocean conditions, some coral reefs around the world manage to defy expectations.
In a survey of more than 2,500 reefs around the world, scientists identified 15 that were surprisingly healthy, considering their proximity to large human populations or unfavorable...
They’ve done it again. Scientists using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory have detected a second collision between two black holes that sent telltale ripples through the cosmos.
The discovery, described in a paper accepted to Physical Review Letters and at the American Astronomical...
The World Health Organization's research arm has downgraded its classification of coffee as a possible carcinogen, declaring there isn't enough proof to show a link to cancer.
But the International Agency for Research on Cancer, or IARC, also announced in a report published on Wednesday that drinking...
Pilates is known for strengthening and lengthening your core muscles, but what about your backside? Turns out more and more Pilates studios are adding “Bootylicious” classes as a way to offer total body toning for clients.
At Dr. Pilates in Larchmont, instructor Chelsea Gabrielle created a 50 minute...
In the diet-medication sweepstakes, we have a winner. While all five drugs approved by the Food & Drug Administration for weight loss best a placebo in helping patients lose weight, a drug known commercially as Qsymia — a combination of the drugs phentermine and topiramate — most consistently prompted...
New research suggests that between the years 2000 and 2013, the injuries sustained by victims of firearms violence grew more both more severe and more deadly, even as mortality from other traumatic injuries declined.
Just days after the nation’s worst mass shooting took place at a nightclub in...
Bombarding Martian rock with X-rays, NASA’s Curiosity rover has dug up the first mineral evidence of an explosive type of volcano on Mars that can also be found on Earth.
The findings, described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could hint at the complex dynamics beneath the...
Pediatricians have a message for fathers: You’re more important to your child’s health and well-being than you — and we — might have realized.
After assessing more than a decade’s worth of psychological and sociological research, the American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a new report about...
“I didn't know that,” I whispered to the guy standing next to me.
I was born in L.A., went to school here and lived most of my adult life here. I thought I knew every inch of this place. But I didn't know that L.A. in the 1920s was a scandal-ridden oil boom town ruled by organized crime, crooked...
Across the globe, light pollution is making the night sky lighter and the stars harder to see, according to a new study.
In a paper published Friday in Science Advances, researchers reveal that 1 in 3 people worldwide are unable to see the Milky Way when they gaze at the heavens in their hometown. ...
This may be the most popular hike of the dozens in Griffith Park, and it’s easy to see why: Drive 10 minutes from Hollywood Boulevard to enjoy massive mountain, city and even ocean views for the duration of this moderately challenging trail. Bring water and expect to share the trail with runners,...
Hannah Simone is best known for her role as Cece Parekh on the hit sitcom “New Girl,” playing a somewhat sardonic but good-natured model-turned-bartender. Of Indo-European descent, Simone has lived around the world, has worked for the United Nations and lives on the same Los Angeles street as the...
Chocolate cake calling your name? Try eating it in front of a mirror.
This may be the single craziest tip we’ve heard for breaking bad eating habits — and we’ve heard a lot. But it could come in handy if you find yourself staring down bikini season with a bunch of broken weight-loss resolutions...
We don’t often encounter species that produce their own light here on land. Fireflies do it. Some millipedes and fungi do it. That’s about it.
But in the murky depths of the ocean, it’s a whole different glowing story.
About 1,000 to 1,500 feet beneath the ocean surface, in a region known as the...
Deep in the solidified lava beneath Iceland, scientists have managed an unprecedented feat: They’ve taken carbon dioxide released by a power plant and turned it into rock at a rate much faster than laboratory tests predicted.
The findings, described in the journal Science, demonstrate a powerful...
How do government agencies, private foundations, industry groups and professional societies squander hundreds of millions of dollars? By trying to fight America’s obesity epidemic.
Two new studies show that the best efforts of all these players – as well as schools, churches and individual healthcare...
