Are Californians destroying the Amazon? A Sebasti ão Salgado exhibit raises hard questions
The beauty of the Amazon rainforest and its peoples, and the threats facing them, emerge in a Sebastião Salgado photo show at the California Science Center. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - February 16, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Reed Johnson Source Type: news
UCLA receives $20-million gift to establish center for study of microbial organisms
Andrea and Donald Goodman, and Renee and Meyer Luskin, donated the money for the UCLA Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center to develop treatments for autoimmune diseases. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - February 16, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Christian Martinez Source Type: news
UCLA is asking for the public's help in finding signs of extraterrestrial intelligence
Are we alone in the universe? Researchers at UCLA are trying to answer this question by asking citizen scientists to analyze signals captured by a giant radio telescope. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - February 15, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Corinne Purtill Source Type: news
Mysterious flying objects are turning up daily. Why experts don't think aliens sent them
Three mysterious objects were shot out of North American skies in a three-day period. They're UFOs, but that doesn't mean they were sent by aliens. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - February 14, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Corinne Purtill Source Type: news
An asteroid will just miss us in 2029. Scientists are making the most of a rare opportunity
A huge asteroid will fly by Earth in April 2029. It won't be close enough to hit us, but it will be close enough to study, so scientists are getting ready. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - February 14, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Corinne Purtill Source Type: news
Memes, tweets, snark are the FDA's new public health weapons
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is treading a fine line as it attempts to respond to misinformation on social media without amplifying it. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - February 13, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Fiona Rutherford Source Type: news
Leaving prison for many means homelessness and overdose. California hopes to change that
California is the first state permitted to provide Medicaid to people behind bars, including those with mental illnesses and substance use disorders. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - February 13, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Lila Seidman Source Type: news
Opinion: Will new blood donation rules finally stop stigmatizing gay men?
The FDA's revised guidelines would loosen bans on some gay and bisexual men donating blood, but keep other dubious restrictions. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - February 11, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Eric Kutscher Source Type: news
Why helping whales to flourish can help fight climate change
Whales trap a lot of carbon, and if there are more of them, they can trap more of the carbon dioxide produced by human activity. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - February 7, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Corinne Purtill Source Type: news
Why some huge earthquakes cause great destruction while others do little damage
The magnitude of an earthquake isn't enough to determine how much death and destruction it will cause. Location, time of day, building codes and other factors make a big difference. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - February 7, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Corinne Purtill Source Type: news
While COVID raged, another deadly threat was on the rise in hospitals
More people have suffered severe sepsis in California hospitals in recent years — including a troubling surge in patients who got sepsis inside the hospital itself, state data show. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - February 5, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Emily Alpert Reyes Source Type: news
The sounds of science
Why just look at your data when you could listen to it? Scientists are turning their data into sound to gain new insights into things as small as DNA and as large as galaxies. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - February 3, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Sumeet Kulkarni Source Type: news
Two mass shootings in three days. Are these copycat crimes?
Suicides tend to occur in clusters that suggest contagion, but there is little evidence that murders or mass shootings follow the same pattern, experts say. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - January 25, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Melissa Healy Source Type: news
Fewer Medi-Cal patients got crucial treatment for hepatitis C amid pandemic
Hepatitis C can be cured in most cases with a few months of medication. The number of Medi-Cal patients getting the treatment dropped during the pandemic. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - January 22, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Emily Alpert Reyes Source Type: news
A rare green comet is coming: Some suggestions on where to sky gaze
Experts say the green comet passing by Earth will be barely visible to the naked eye in low-light conditions. To get a glimpse, avoid areas of light pollution. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - January 19, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Terry Castleman Source Type: news
