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If the coronavirus outbreak in China were a Hollywood movie, now would be time to panic. But in real life, most Americans have no need, experts say.
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Americans living in counties with more opportunities to get ahead live longer than those living where it’s most difficult to improve their lot in life.
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A second traveler returning to the U.S. from China is diagnosed with the coronavirus that has sickened hundreds and prompted travel freezes in China.
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The new coronavirus in China that has sickened hundreds of people is not yet a global health emergency, according to the World Health Organization.
How big is the threat posed by the new coronavirus from China? Here’s a look at what experts know as the outbreak spreads.
As China urged people in Wuhan to avoid crowds, the WHO tries to figure out whether the coronavirus outbreak should be declared a global emergency.
An LAPD commander pointed to the city’s growing homeless population and an uptick in crimes committed by and against homeless people.
Health officials around the world are keeping a close watch on an outbreak of a virus in China. Here’s what you need to know about the coronavirus.
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An man in Washington state has been sickened by the new coronavirus spreading through Asia, marking the first confirmed case in the U.S.
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Stanford captured a comprehensive view of how we age by profiling 43 healthy adults and taking extensive measurements of their molecular biology over two years.
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Americans are drinking more now than they were in 1920, when Prohibition was enacted. It’s been rising for two decades, and it’s not clear when it will fall.
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If the coronavirus outbreak in China were a Hollywood movie, now would be time to panic. But in real life, most Americans have no need, experts say.
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How big is the threat posed by the new coronavirus from China? Here’s a look at what experts know as the outbreak spreads.
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Stanford captured a comprehensive view of how we age by profiling 43 healthy adults and taking extensive measurements of their molecular biology over two years.
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An man in Washington state has been sickened by the new coronavirus spreading through Asia, marking the first confirmed case in the U.S.
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Health officials around the world are keeping a close watch on an outbreak of a virus in China. Here’s what you need to know about the coronavirus.
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There are 5,500 orphaned wells statewide, most of them in L.A. and Long Beach. Thousands more are unproductive and could add to the state’s liability.
Three gray whales have died on their recent southbound journey along the West Coast, prompting fears of another year of strandings and questions about what is imperiling the creatures.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has pilloried the utility, whose plan to emerge from bankruptcy needs approval by the California Public Utilities Commission, where Newsom has substantial influence.
Trump’s move to soften fuel-economy and emissions standards “will lead to vehicles that are neither safer, nor more affordable or fuel efficient,” a Democratic leader says.
Gov. Newsom’s water policies appear in flux amid lobbying by competing interests. “A lot of people are wondering what’s going on,” says one environmental activist. “It’s a huge mess.”
Big oil companies shower consumer and environmental groups with subpoenas, burdening them with costs.
The Trump administration overhauls Obama-era water safeguards, significantly narrowing which bodies of water deserve federal protection.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced it wants to transform 22,000 acres of public land in the southern Owens Valley into one of the largest geothermal leasing sites in the state.
There’s so much to do in the Southern California garden right now, such as creating water-saving berms -- called hügel berms -- in your backyard.
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Federal authorities in three U.S. airports will begin screening travelers arriving from Wuhan, China, for signs they may be infected with a new coronavirus spreading in Asia.
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A $1 increase in the minimum wage was linked to a 3.5% to 6% decline in the suicide rate among people with high school education or less in a 26-year study.
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The overall cancer death rate has been falling about 1.5% a year since 1991. It fell 2.2% from 2016 to 2017, according to the American Cancer Society.
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Women who used baby powder in the genital area were no more likely to develop ovarian cancer than women who didn’t, according to a study of 250,000 women.
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The eroding economy could be partly to blame for the nation’s opioid crisis, according to an analysis of auto plant closures and drug overdoses.
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Health officials now blame vitamin E acetate for the “vast majority” of cases in the U.S. outbreak of vaping illnesses.
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The coronavirus outbreak, which has killed 9, began at a seafood and live animal market in Wuhan. It can spread among humans, officials confirm.
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A meteor streaking low across the sky in Puerto Rico has set social media abuzz, with the spectacle amazing some people and unsettling others on an island still being hit daily by small earthquakes.
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A lawsuit by young people who claimed the U.S. government’s climate policies jeopardize their future and violate their constitutional rights has been dismissed.
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A UCLA team is vying for the Carbon XPrize, a competition to see who can recycle the most CO2 by turning it into useful products like concrete.
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A new Netflix documentary on Aaron Hernandez makes CTE a topic of conversation yet again. The former NFL star was diagnosed with the disease after his death.
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A new study suggests that a ‘blob’ of warm ocean water in 2015 disrupted the food web of the Pacific, triggering the starvation and deaths of thousands and thousands of sea birds, including the common murre.
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2019 was the second-warmest year since scientists began taking temperatures in 1880, government scientists from NASA and NOAA announced Wednesday.
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Stellar Solutions Inc. has mothballed a costly project aimed at improving detection of electromagnetic pulses - ‘luminosities’ - thought to precede earthquakes.
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Only two northern white rhinos remain, and both are female. Their eggs were inseminated in a lab with frozen sperm from dead males, researchers say.
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Researchers and therapists say that grief linked to climate change is on the rise.
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An artist discovered the uneasy feelings she had about climate change were akin to mourning. She’s channeling those emotions through her art.
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