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Does Pluto have a hidden ocean? Its 'heart' holds a clue
Pluto’s “heart” is spilling its secrets. Scientists using data from NASA’s New Horizons mission have found more evidence that there may be an ocean beneath the dwarf planet’s surface.
The findings, published by Geophysical Research Letters, could shed light on the internal mysteries of this frigid, distant little world.
“Before New Horizons, I would have bet that it was completely frozen,” lead author Brandon Johnson, a planetary scientist at Brown University, said of the dwarf planet.
Johnson focused on Sputnik Planum, a...
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Does Pluto have a hidden ocean? Its 'heart' holds a clue
Pluto’s “heart” is spilling its secrets. Scientists using data from NASA’s New Horizons mission have found more evidence that there may be an ocean beneath the dwarf planet’s surface.
The findings, published by Geophysical Research Letters, could...
Three students from U.S. universities — one from UC Berkeley — among Dhaka attack victims
Teens who had once shared classes at the little school in Dhaka had scattered across the globe since graduation, many studying at universities far from Bangladesh.
But when three former classmates were slain in a Dhaka restaurant, victims of armed...
Gun injuries: Are they getting more deadly?
New research suggests that between the years 2000 and 2013, the injuries sustained by victims of firearms violence grew both more severe and more deadly, even as mortality from other traumatic injuries declined.
Just days after the nation’s worst...
Ellen Junn named president of Stanislaus State, fifth woman in a row picked to lead a Cal State campus
California State University trustees named Ellen N. Junn as the new president of Cal State Stanislaus, marking the fifth time in a row that a woman has been appointed to lead a campus in the largest university system in the nation.
Junn, currently the...
How a gamble by two starving artists -- 20 years ago -- paid off
His band never really broke out, despite years of hanging with his friend Mama Cass and opening for the likes of Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly and Creedence Clearwater Revival.
So drummer Paul Eventoff, trained in art, switched to a different set of...
Published in Los Angeles Times on April 20, 2016 — Print headline: "He's truly a wizard - Art teacher helps students find their own beauty"
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René Angélil dies at 73; husband and manager of Celine Dion
Authorities say René Angélil, the husband and manager of singer Celine Dion, has died in Las Vegas. He was 73 and had battled throat cancer.
Clark County Coroner...
The smaller the chameleon, the quicker the tongue, study finds
If you’re an unwary fly, here’s a tongue-lashing you won’t see coming. A study of chameleons’ stretchy tongues has found that smaller species, some the size of your thumb, can hurl their sticky lickers with blazing-fast accelerations – up to 264 times the...
Sharp divisions emerge on campuses as some criticize activists' tactics as intimidation
Alton Luke II is an African American sophomore at Occidental College who backs the broad goal of racial equity for students. But he has chosen not to support the minority student movement aimed at ousting college President Jonathan Veitch and improving...
Published in Los Angeles Times on November 21, 2015 — Print headline: "Sharp divisions over campus activists' tactics - Students critical of diversity movement feel intimidated."
Democratic debate in Las Vegas: Under fire from Democrats, Clinton fires at Republicans
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10 ways to explore the complicated legacy of Watts through literature
The Watts riots, which began 50 years ago, on Aug. 11, 1965, were sparked by a traffic stop. This they share in common with the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Unlike that later disturbance, however, Watts provoked a literary foment as the city struggled — and in...
Watts riots shifted state to the right, but new demographics pushed it left
The embers of Watts had cooled as Ronald Reagan raced toward his first election as California's governor, a year after riots scarred southern Los Angeles.
Yet Watts remained an ominous political presence.
As Reagan took on two-term incumbent Pat Brown...
Video: Church, state, mob, food, art, etc.: What I found in Providence
Providence -- the capital of Rhode Island and the star of this video -- could use a little more respect.
Part of the problem is its location, an hour south of Boston (which has more culture and more history) and 45 minutes north of Newport (more...
Rafe Esquith supporters urge reinstatement of noted L.A. teacher
Supporters of suspended teacher Rafe Esquith urged the Los Angeles Board of Education at its Tuesday meeting to reinstate the popular and nationally respected instructor.
Esquith was pulled from the classroom in April pending the results of an...
Rachel Moore of ABT named L.A. Music Center's next president and CEO
Rachel Moore, a former dancer and the longtime top business executive of New York's American Ballet Theatre, will be the next president and CEO of the Music Center in downtown Los Angeles.
Meeting Wednesday, the Music Center's board confirmed Moore as...
How a steady stream of comet dust may have 'painted' Mercury black
The mystery of Mercury's excessively dark surface may have just been solved.
A team of researchers working at Brown University say the planet's inky appearance may be the result of a near constant rain of impacts from tiny specks of...
5 things to know about Tom Rothman, Sony motion picture group's new head
Tom Rothman has been tapped as the next chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment's motion picture group.
Rothman replaces current chair Amy Pascal, who will step down in May to become a producer for Sony Pictures.
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Obama weighs college tuition as a president and a dad
He's getting sappy on college campuses, wringing his hands about his tuition savings plan and waxing nostalgic about his own years as an undergraduate.
President Obama is hurtling toward a deadline that looms over him much like the end of his time in...
WME talent agents go from A-list to ABCs in Compton mentors program
Compton eighth-grader Edgar Ruelas wants to be the first in his family to attend college.
He has some help: high-powered talent agents from Beverly Hills.
For the past four years, a few dozen agents from William Morris Endeavor have been mentoring...
The era known as 'the Sixties' really began in 1965
Fifty years ago Thursday, President Lyndon B. Johnson turned on the lights of the National Christmas Tree and proclaimed, “These are the most hopeful times in all the years since Christ was born in Bethlehem.” He continued, “Today — as never before —...
In honor of Veterans Day, let's deal with the real costs of war
Many Americans may not know that Veterans Day began as Armistice Day. At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, the Allied nations and Germany agreed to an armistice, a temporary cessation of hostilities that began the process of...