SCIENTISTS have ranked the worst types of pain people can experience - including childbirth, gunshot wounds and a slipped disk. Unsurprisingly, labour pains ranked pretty…
Each year, the National Institutes of Health gives billions of dollars to the University of California to pay for research into cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, heart…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee to lead the sprawling federal bureaucracy responsible for the healthcare of millions of Americans, received the backing of…
WASHINGTON — The man who hopes to be President Trump’s health secretary repeatedly asked to see “data” or “science” showing vaccines are safe — but when an…
The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic timepiece showing how close we are to ‘destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making’.For the first…
THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim.Experts had believed our…
With a population of just over 5,000, the French village of Nuit-Saint-Georges may be small, but this pastoral Burgundy hamlet has an oversized connection to…
EARTH is littered with terrifyingly deep, wide, and mysterious holes – and some are especially creepy.The Sun has rounded up some majorly scary holes from…
United States Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy has reignited a public health debate by proposing cancer warning labels on alcoholic beverages. Murthy’s proposal accompanied a…
WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Democratic philanthropist George Soros and actor-director Denzel Washington will be awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor on Saturday…
THIS year looks set to be another blockbuster year for daring space missions, from China's asteroid retrieval to the first-ever private space station. Here are…
Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Friday attempting to limit access to ultra-processed foods, a directive he cast as a continuation of California’s…
We examine the potential threats of artificial intelligence to our environment and human life.Governments are in a race to claim dominance over the most advanced…
THE true face of the man that inspired Santa Claus can be seen for the first time in almost 1,700 years, after scientists reconstructed his…
Holiday gift shopping? It’s chaos. The Grove on Black Friday? Good luck finding parking — it’s a two-hour wait just to squeeze into a spot.…
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President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday he plans to nominate Mehmet Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon and former daytime television host, as administrator for the Centers…
When it comes to “walkability,” L.A. gets a bad rap. To the weekend visitor, our city can seem like a maze of twisting freeways and…
Walking might not be built into the daily life of your average Angeleno, but our city is still full of fantastic places to explore by…
EU-funded researchers are testing DNA from archaeological cat remains to help unravel the tale of cat domestication.By Ali JonesIt probably will not surprise cat owners,…