A champion of psychedelics who includes a dose of skepticism
Ernesto Londoño's memoir 'Trippy' explores psychiatry's renewed flirtation with drugs such as LSD. He's a believer but not a zealot. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - May 4, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Sarah Fay Source Type: news
What are the blue blobs washing up on SoCal beaches? Welcome to Velella velella Valhalla
What are those blue things washing up on Southern California beaches? Velella velella, of course. Also known as by-the-wind sailors. They're kind of like jellyfish. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - May 3, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Corinne Purtill, Sean Greene Source Type: news
Column: How the GOP — with Democratic Party connivance — has undermined a crucial effort to avert the next pandemic
Republicans and Democrats participated in a bipartisan effort to smear EcoHealth Alliance, which is devoted to helping to avoid another pandemic (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - May 2, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Michael Hiltzik Source Type: news
Canny as a crocodile but dumber than a baboon — new research ponders T. rex's brain power
T. rex intelligence was likely much closer to that of modern-day crocodiles than primates — a perfectly respectable amount of smarts for a therapod. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - April 29, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Corinne Purtill Source Type: news
You're gonna need a bigger number: Scientists consider a Category 6 for mega-hurricane era
As climate change intensifies hurricanes, some scientists want a Category 6 for the biggest storms (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - April 26, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Corinne Purtill Source Type: news
Opinion: America's 'big glass' dominance hangs on the fate of two powerful new telescopes
Washington acknowledged the need for an 'all-sky' view of deep space but may stint on the funding. Does this make sense? (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - April 25, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Eric D. Isaacs and Thomas F. Rosenbaum Source Type: news
Mosquito season is upon us. So why are Southern California officials releasing more of them?
Vector control officials in Southern California are starting to release sterilized male mosquitoes to combat the summertime onslaught of ankle biters. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - April 25, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Lila Seidman Source Type: news
After months of silence, Voyager 1 has returned NASA's calls
The spacecraft launched in 1977 and is now 15 billion miles from Earth. It went silent in November. Scientists at JPL figured out how to get it talking again. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - April 24, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Corinne Purtill Source Type: news
How L.A. County is trying to remake addiction treatment — no more 'business as usual'
A Los Angeles County initiative called Reaching the 95% aims to engage with more people than the fraction of Angelenos already getting addiction treatment. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - April 23, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Emily Alpert Reyes Source Type: news
FDA approves bladder cancer treatment by Culver City company
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Culver City-based ImmunityBio's treatment for a type of bladder cancer. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - April 23, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Times staff Source Type: news
Opinion: The decline in American life expectancy harms more than our health
This alarming trend, which began before COVID, fuels a deadly cycle of a sick workforce and weakened economy. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - April 16, 2024 Category: Science Authors: C éline Gounder and Craig Spencer Source Type: news
Too expensive, too slow: NASA asks for help with JPL's Mars Sample Return mission
NASA's administrator says the agency is committed to the mission to bring samples of Mars back to Earth -- just in less time and for less money. How it will pull that off remains to be seen. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - April 15, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Corinne Purtill Source Type: news
'Miracle' weight-loss drugs could have reduced health disparities. Instead they got worse
Ozempic and other drugs raised the possibility of reversing the country's obesity crisis. Doctors are frustrated that they've made health disparities worse. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - April 15, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Karen Kaplan Source Type: news
Column: A cancer survivor's advice: research, persistence and second opinions
It's very helpful, Robin Clough said, when, in the midst of a life-threatening medical crisis, the person you live with is a doctor who makes house calls. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - April 13, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Steve Lopez Source Type: news
Surrogate otter mom at Long Beach aquarium is rehabilitating pup 'better than any human ever can'
The pup could become Aquarium of the Pacific's first surrogate-raised otter to return to the wild — if she masters the skills needed to hack it in the ocean. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - April 11, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Lila Seidman Source Type: news
