Updates
City of Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, has been awarded $5.4 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to build and fund a stem cell research laboratory on its Duarte campus that will further expand its scientific capabilities.
May 23, 2024
Science & Medicine
Samples taken in the pandemic’s early weeks reinforce hypothesis that coronavirus emerged from live animal market, not a laboratory, new study says.
Sept. 21, 2024
California
California’s legal weed industry is reeling over whistleblower lawsuit claims, key departures and fear over slumping sales
Sept. 18, 2024
Movies
Director Laura Moss’ unsettling new take on ‘Frankenstein’ doubles down on the feminist dread, even when it’s women doing the reanimating of dead corpses.
Aug. 18, 2023
Hollywood Inc.
Amazon is launching advertisements on its Prime Video streaming platform early next year in the U.S. and several other countries, plus — for $2.99 more a month — an ad-free option.
Sept. 22, 2023
For the last 70 years, Wilmington residents have faced off to become the blue-collar community’s honorary mayor. The winner gets a two-year term that offers no salary, no staff and no political power.
World & Nation
The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant says it plans to restart the reactor under a 20-year agreement.
Sept. 20, 2024
Opinion
One Southern California school district found a way to reverse the low representation of Black and Latino students in science, technology, engineering and math.
From the guitarron and the requinto to the guiro and the tololoche, these are some of the instruments responsible for música Mexicana’s distinct qualities.
Sept. 19, 2024
They believe they’ve found a succulent solution to climate change and drought.
Sept. 17, 2024