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Brace yourself: The calorie-burning benefits of standing versus sitting will not, at first blush, blow you out of your seat. Spend a minute upright instead of seated, and the additional energy expended amounts to less than one-tenth of a calorie (0.04 of a calorie, to be exact).
But a new study…
A Q&A with USC physicist Clifford Johnson, who has written (and drawn!) a graphic novel about talking about science. His mission is to help people realize that science is not at all beyond their reach.
In the future, when robots are our doctors and we find ourselves describing our symptoms to an online portal, well miss the foibles of the physicians who once cared for us. But until then, we can still laugh at the very funny things that our very human doctors sometimes say and do when theyre…
The internet is great place to shop for plane tickets, laundry detergent, artisan jewelry and pretty much anything else you might ever want to buy. But a new report says theres one big exception healthcare.
If you expect the World Wide Web to help you figure out how much youll need to pay to…
So, you want to reduce your carbon footprint? You might consider improving your diet.
It turns out that healthy eating isnt just good for your body, it can also lessen your impact on the environment.
Scientists say that food production including growing crops, raising livestock, fishing and transporting…
Is it Pac-Man? A golf ball? Or algae and an bug’s eye? The winners of the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition will have you scratching your head.
We all want to avoid cancer. That’s a given. But when cancer risk seems to lurk everywhere, it’s hard to know what you really need to do to protect yourself. Here’s what you should sweat, and here’s what you shouldn’t worry about.
So long Cassini, and thanks for all the science. Here are highlights of NASA’s 13-year-long mission at Saturn.
You can spend a lot of accumulated time on your bottom in the course of a day. Or you can sit for lengthy spells without a break.
Both, it turns out, are very bad for you.
Whether youre a heavy sitter or a binge-sitter, racking up prolonged sedentary time increases your risk of early death, according…
Eclipses may be beautiful, but they sure arent easy on the eyes. Staring at the sun is dangerous at any time, unless you happen to be in the right spot to witness the brief moments of totality, when the moon perfectly covers up most of the sun and the ghostly corona can be seen.
For those who…
Youve been anticipating this day for months, perhaps years. For a few short minutes, the moon will blot out the sun, plunging a slice of the Earth into eerie darkness.
Its finally here: The Great American Eclipse.
Perhaps youre one of the folks who reserved a hotel room in the path of totality…
The Great American Eclipse is almost here. Here are some tips and guidelines to help you take great photos of the big event.
Humans make more plastic than just about anything. And it will be with us for a very long time.
Los Angeles, if you think traffic on the 101 is bad, be thankful you dont live in Jakarta especially since the city did away with its controversial carpool rules.
When vehicles on the main road into the Indonesian capitals business district were required to have at least three occupants during…
If the ubiquity of pollutants in modern life has you yearning for the simpler ways of Californias early residents, an unusual scientific experiment may prompt you to reconsider.
After constructing water vessels using the methods of prehistoric people who lived on the Channel Islands, researchers…
Preventing the diseases we fear most as we age is rarely a sure or simple matter. But for those determined to slow mental decline and drive down the likelihood of developing dementia, researchers have reached a rare consensus around a trio of straightforward strategies: Engage your brain (but choose…
An underwater cleanup of Newport Harbor this month yielded more than a half-ton of trash and other things that werent supposed to be in the water including a gun.
In addition to the typical beer cans, cups and food packaging that get tossed or fall in, divers pulled up a shopping cart, a bicycle,…
The best medicine for a person who goes into sudden cardiac arrest is an electric shock. That jolt temporarily stops the heart, along with its rapid or erratic beat. When the heart starts itself up again, it can revert to its normal rhythm and resume pumping blood to the brain and the rest of the…
Californias attorney general argued Thursday that President Trump has no legal authority to revoke or modify national monuments created by previous administrations.
In an 11-page letter to the Interior Department, state Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra vowed to take any and all legal action necessary…
Gale Crater on Mars was once a lake separated into layers with different chemical compositions, a finding that provides evidence of past climate change on the Red Planet.