Advertisement
Recent Headlines
Scientists and world leaders increasingly recognize the need to bolster indigenous rights not only on humanitarian grounds, but for the good of the global environment.
-
State policies that treat pregnant women like criminals if they use illicit substances are linked with higher rates of babies being born with opioid withdrawal.
-
Children are growing up in a warmer world that will hit them with more and different health problems than their parents experienced, doctors say.
-
Unprecedented visualizations have allowed scientists to dig deeper into the details of major earthquakes.
Deaths resulting from infections with drug-resistant “superbugs” appear to be falling in the U.S., though infections continue to rise, according to the CDC.
A UC Davis professor’s simple mission: Record and identify every butterfly he sees. What he’s discovered has disturbed him.
The most damaging hurricanes, by area of total devastation, are increasing the most, according to a study of 247 hurricanes that hit the U.S. since 1900.
After controversial guidelines were introduced, cholesterol levels are inching down and more Americans are taking much-needed statin drugs.
Health
-
New advice from pediatric experts says there isn’t enough solid research to answer some of the most burning questions about kids, sports and concussions.
-
Doctors are reporting success in a penis transplant for a veteran injured by an IED. The man received a new penis, scrotum and lower abdominal wall.
-
The first attempt in the U.S. to use CRISPR against cancer seems safe in three patients who have had it so far, but it’s too soon to know whether it will help.
Most Read
-
A UC Davis professor’s simple mission: Record and identify every butterfly he sees. What he’s discovered has disturbed him.
-
About 1 in 1,000 black men and boys in America can expect to die at the hands of police. That risk is 2.5 times higher than for white men, new research shows.
-
Researchers have found high levels of radiation in giant clams near the Central Pacific site where the United States entombed waste from nuclear testing almost four decades ago, raising concerns the contamination is spreading from the dump site’s tainted groundwater into the ocean and the food chain.
-
State policies that treat pregnant women like criminals if they use illicit substances are linked with higher rates of babies being born with opioid withdrawal.
-
Three scientists who studied how the brain positions us within our environment, plots the route ahead and may even remember where we’ve been were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday.
Advertisement
Sen. Kamala Harris introduced a bill that would set aside $1 billion each year to pay for better infrastructure, land-use and evacuation route planning in wildfire zones.
More Coverage
A growing army of hot rodders is cannibalizing crashed electric cars and turning them into custom vehicles with electric power trains.
The U.S. won’t clean out its leftover radioactive waste from a huge dome in Marshall Islands — but it does pay to keep anti-American graffiti off it.
Officials postponed a decision that critics said would cripple the state’s home solar mandate.
Southern California Edison settles with 23 public agencies for damage it allegedly caused in the Thomas and Woolsey fires, and Montecito mudslides.
Starting in December, those looking to buy electric vehicles with a price tag of more than $60,000 won’t qualify for rebates — nor will plug-in hybrids with less than 35 miles of all-electric range.
There are at least 1,688 high hazard dams in poor or unsatisfactory condition in 44 states and Puerto Rico, an Associated Press investigation has found. California is home to six.
State officials will vote this week on a proposal to allow “community solar” farms instead of rooftop panels.
Westlands Water District, a sprawling Central Valley farm district with ties to the Trump administration, is poised to get a permanent contract for a massive quantity of cheap federal irrigation supplies.
Medicine
State Sen. Richard Pan, who is an author of SB 277, said that though the law has not been bulletproof, the study understates its success at boosting vaccination rates.
-
It’s an article of faith for many parents who refuse to vaccinate their children: When healthy kids get and recover from an infection naturally, their immune systems come out stronger.
-
More kids who are obese should be considered candidates for weight-loss surgery, according to new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
-
You can see the deadly westward expansion of fentanyl in new data from the CDC. Across the country, it was responsible for 39% of all fatal drug overdoses.
-
An algorithm used to inform healthcare decisions for millions of people shows significant racial bias in its predictions of the health risks of black patients.
-
Scientists have found the strongest evidence yet that a virus is to blame for AFM, a mysterious polio-like illness that can quickly paralyze children.
More headlines
-
Mini Mercury is skipping across the vast, glaring face of the sun in a rare celestial transit.
-
The solar system’s smallest, innermost planet will resemble a tiny black dot as it passes directly between Earth and the sun.
-
Officials are looking at vitamin E acetate as a potential cause of severe lung injuries that have sickened thousands who have used vaping devices.
-
Montana justices face decision after the discovery of two fossilized dinosaur skeletons intertwined in what looks like a death match.
-
For much of the United States, invasive grass species are making wildfires more frequent, especially in fire-prone California, a new study finds.
-
Cerutti made one of the most contentious discoveries in North American archaeology when he found in a highway project the tusk of a mastodon.
-
How close can U.S. cities, states and companies get to meeting the country’s abandoned climate goals without help from the federal government?
-
Researchers found that asking trick-or-treaters in costume whether they were dressed up as a “good guy” or a “bad guy” influenced their propensity to lie.
-
Mysterious black splotches are creeping over the gleaming Jefferson Memorial and other historic monuments and buildings in Washington. What’s causing the unsightly “biofilm”? Theories abound.
-
Teens who vape using fruity flavors are more likely to continue vaping, and to inhale more during each session.
-
This new vertical farm is trying to make vegetables taste so good, you won’t want to eat anything else.
Advertisement
Advertisement