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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times
Federal supervisors would have to run the country's national forests to maintain ecological health and species diversity under a proposed...
Associated Press
The administrator of the $20-billion compensation fund for gulf oil spill victims is not independent from BP and must stop telling potential...
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times
Prenatal surgery for the most severe form of the birth defect spina bifida doubled the number of children who were able to walk unassisted...
By Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times
Some women with early-stage breast cancer may be cured without the need to remove multiple lymph nodes, which has been the standard...
By Andrew Zajac, Washington Bureau
Responding to the needs of badly wounded war veterans, federal officials said Tuesday they were accelerating reviews of a science-fiction-...
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times
Scientists have confirmed an axiom of teenage life: Kids intent on climbing the social ladder at school are more likely to pick on their...
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times
Dr. Ernest McCulloch, who with biophysicist James E. Till was the first to isolate and identify a stem cell, opening the door immediately to...
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times
Willi Dansgaard, a Danish paleoclimatologist who was the first to recognize that the Earth's climatic history was stored in the Greenland...
By Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times
Describing seaside fireworks displays as wholesome and patriotic, an Orange County legislator wants to prevent the California Coastal...
By Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times
Just two days after the start of the winter strength-and-conditioning program, Jim Poggi, a University of Iowa freshman football player,...
By Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times
Shell announced Thursday it would not conduct exploratory drilling in Arctic waters off Alaska this year after a ruling last month revoked...
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times
Humans like to think of themselves as residing at the top of the evolutionary chain, but the tiny water flea beats them out by at least...
By Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times
Southern California air quality officials adopted a plan Friday to allow industry to expand in the Los Angeles region by tapping into a...
By Andrew Zajac, Washington Bureau
Add diagnosing soft-tissue injuries to online banking, e-mail, video games and thousands of other applications available for the iPad,...
By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times
Researchers have discovered a previously unknown subspecies of mosquito in West Africa that is highly susceptible to the malaria parasite...