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Women have come a long way in the United States over the last 70 years, to the point where they are now seen as being as competent as men, if not more so.
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Nearly 50 years ago, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. A woman could follow in his footsteps in 2024. Here’s what we know about her.
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The World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak in Congo is now a public health emergency. The U.N. agency was criticized for failing to say this before.
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Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. appear to be falling, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
New research offers some of the first biological clues to why women may be more likely than men to develop Alzheimer’s disease.
As the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing approaches, the women who helped America’s early space efforts reflect on their often unheralded roles — and the indignities they endured.
Talk about star power. Mt. Wilson has an amazing history. Up here, astronomers first measured the Milky Way and discovered the universe was expanding. Go see the distant stars for yourself and expand your universe as well.
Scientists are reporting progress on blood tests to screen people for possible signs of Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia.
Health
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A healthy lifestyle can cut your risk of developing Alzheimer’s, even if you’ve inherited genes that raise your risk for the dementia-causing disease.
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Thousands of the world’s leading stem cell researchers are convening in Los Angeles this week to discuss the prospects for a future without human disease.
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Stem cell scientists at three California universities will receive an infusion of cash as the state’s publicly funded research program gets ready to dole out the last of its grant money.
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Nearly 50 years ago, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. A woman could follow in his footsteps in 2024. Here’s what we know about her.
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New research offers some of the first biological clues to why women may be more likely than men to develop Alzheimer’s disease.
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Women have come a long way in the United States over the last 70 years, to the point where they are now seen as being as competent as men, if not more so.
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Peering at a distant galaxy, an amateur astronomer in Argentina managed to capture a star in the act of going supernova.
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As Sen. Dianne Feinstein chastises Chevron Corp. for an 800,000-gallon oil spill near Bakersfield, California officials confirm more leaking.
A biological finding by the National Marine Fisheries Service threatens to derail the Trump administration plan to increase Delta water deliveries to Central Valley farmers.
Here’s a look at the preliminary plans for Taylor Yard, the former rail yard where the city of L.A. is starting its makeover of the L.A. River.
After a ‘near-miss’ last year, Southern California Edison said it is confident transfer operations will go smoothly.
L.A. will build a gas-fired power plant in Utah, even as Mayor Eric Garcetti touts a “Green New Deal” to fight climate change.
Think of the most radioactive landscapes on the planet and the names Chernobyl and Fukushima may come to mind.
When Eric Garcetti ran for mayor six years ago, he rode a wave of anger over the political power wielded by the union that represents workers at the Department of Water and Power — and later vowed to reform the agency that Los Angeles residents love to hate.
California authorities said Friday that crews are beginning to clean up a massive oil spill that dumped nearly 800,000 gallons of oil and water into a Kern County canyon, making it larger — if less devastating — than the state’s last two major oil spills.
San Francisco restaurants are no longer allowed to offer customers plastic utensils or disposable food accessories with their orders.
Medicine
President Trump made a new promise if voters grant him a second term: “We will come up with the cures to many, many problems, to many, many diseases, including cancer.”
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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new medication for premenopausal women whose flagging libidos are a source of personal distress or relationship difficulties.
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A new study shoots down the notion that medical marijuana laws can prevent opioid overdose deaths, challenging a favorite talking point of legal pot advocates.
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People with a DNA mutation that reduces their chance of HIV infection may die sooner, according to a study that suggests tinkering with a gene to try to fix one problem may cause others.
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Is sexism getting in the way of good science?
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Across California, a blessing has become a curse for patients who dwell in overwhelmingly white communities: their ready access to opioid pain relievers.
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After complaints that the ShakeAlert app failed to warn users of the Ridgecrest quakes, officials will lower the notification threshold. But there are risks.
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A 210,000-year-old skull in Greece is the earliest evidence for modern humans in Eurasia and suggests they left Africa earlier than previously thought.
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Scientists are using gene-editing technologies to make mosquitoes that can’t spread malaria, combat diseases caused by a single errant letter in a string of DNA, and create designer babies that are protected against HIV.
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Talking about global warming with friends and family helps them learn key facts about the scientific agreement on climate change and influences their beliefs.
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The Earth could support enough additional trees to eliminate about two-thirds of the carbon that’s in the atmosphere today as a result of human activities.
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The Ebola outbreak raging through Congo has sickened thousands of people and killed more than 1,500 — even as the number of new victims continues to climb.
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The amount of sea ice circling Antarctica has suddenly plunged from a record high in 2014 to record lows in 2017. Scientists are stumped by the turnaround.
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Over the course of its expected lifetime, existing energy infrastructure will emit too much carbon dioxide to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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The war on smog has been called one of America’s greatest environmental successes.
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Archaeologists and anthropologists have new spectroscopy techniques to study ancient bones burned in cooking and funeral rituals, providing a window to the past.
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NASA’s newest mission will send a giant flying drone to a world unlike any the space agency has visited before: Saturn’s methane-drenched moon, Titan.
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