Kids’ coronavirus questions, answered
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Times science reporter Deborah Netburn answers kids questions about coronavirus, including whether you can get it twice and which parts of the body it attacks.
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Close quarters: How has your life changed during California’s stay-at-home order?
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Being stuck at home during California’s coronavirus stay-at-home order has been challenging to many. Tell us how it has been for you.
Coronavirus shopping list: Your essential quarantine items
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Here’s what you should have on your coronavirus shopping list as you stock up for a possible 14-day self-quarantine or isolation at home.
It’s cloudy with a chance of iron rain at hot, faraway world
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The mega planet is so hot on the sunny side that iron vaporizes in the atmosphere, then likely condenses on the cooler night side, turning into rain.
For some doctors, saving lives isn’t enough. They write poems about it, too
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Life and death, sickness and health. The human condition is the stuff of poetry, and doctors see it every day. Some feel compelled to document it, in verse.
Why you should stop obsessing about coronavirus news, and how to do it
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It’s only natural that you’re obsessing about the coronavirus, but that anxiety is neither healthy nor necessary. Here’s why you should stop, and how to do it.
Calorie counts on nutrition labels may not be as precise as you think
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Calorie counts on food labels seem like an immutable guide to help you track what you eat. But the numbers on nutrition labels may be imprecise.
Coronavirus symptoms: What to look for if you think you might be sick
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A coronavirus infection can have common symptoms like a cough or fever. There can also be serious problems, including pneumonia or kidney failure.
Turning carbon into concrete could win UCLA team a climate victory and $7.5 million
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A UCLA team is vying for the Carbon XPrize, a competition to see who can recycle the most CO2 by turning it into useful products like concrete.
I went to New Zealand to understand what a huge California earthquake would look like
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There are many lessons California can learn from Christchurch.
Both old and new drugs may offer fresh ways to fight heart disease
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Novel drugs some old, some new may offer fresh ways to reduce heart risks beyond the usual medicines to lower cholesterol and blood pressure.
A big planet orbiting a tiny star? Here’s how it can happen
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A giant planet discovered around a tiny star is putting a new spin on how planets form. In a surprise to scientists, it seems to have arisen straight from gas.
Review: ‘Jim Allison: Breakthrough’ salutes a one-of-a-kind Nobel Prize-winning Texan
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Documentary “Jim Allison: Breakthrough” is narrated by Woody Harrelson and profiles the Nobel Prize-winning immunologist.
Day-Glo masterpieces are fading. A conservator and her team are racing to save them
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A crusading conservator is racing to solve an art-world mystery: how to reverse-engineer a formula for a Day-Glo yellow and save an important work by Frank Stella
Earthquakes could kill people in many UCLA, UC Berkeley buildings, officials say
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A strong earthquake would pose a serious to severe risk to life in 86 buildings at UCLA and UC Berkeley.
These UCLA and UC Berkeley buildings may be unsafe in a big earthquake
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A list of UCLA and UC Berkeley buildings that are seismically unsafe during a major earthquake.
Jet-lagged from that long summer flight? Tips on reducing the fog and fatigue
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Welcome to jet-lag season. “I’m a zombie the first four or five days,” said one traveler. Here’s what you need to know if you’re about to depart or return from that long summer trip.
Using genetics to try to figure out how to get mosquitoes to stop biting us
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Among all the beasts in the animal kingdom, perhaps none is more dangerous to humans than the mosquito.
How a four-legged whale ended up in Peru more than 42 million years ago
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Olivier Lambert explains what scientists can learn from a the fossil of an ancient whale that had four legs and could live in the water or on the land.
To reduce dementia risk, eating well and exercising do more than puzzles and pills
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If you want to save your brain from the ravages of dementia, keep the rest of your body well with exercise and healthy habits rather than relying on vitamins or other pills, according to new guidelines from the World Health Organization.