LOS ANGELES (AP) — The newest bridge in Los Angeles, a $588-million architectural marvel with views of the downtown skyline, opened to great fanfare on July 10. It has already been closed, to great dismay, several times since then amid chaos and collisions. The 6th Street Viaduct — which soars over the concrete-lined Los Angeles … Read more
Researcher Dhruv Sareen’s own stem cells are now orbiting the Earth. The mission? To test whether they’ll grow better in zero gravity. Scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles are trying to find new ways to produce huge batches of a type of stem cell that can generate nearly any other type of cell … Read more
When you think about high costs of living, you probably think of New York and Los Angeles. But prices are rising just about everywhere these days, due to inflation continuing at a record pace in the US and around the world. And a new study from Toronto-based online life insurance provider PolicyAdvisor ranking the most … Read more
Circles and Curves © Sean Goebel Viewed from under a quadruple arch, the stars circle around … [+] Polaris, in this stack of 33 four-minute exposures. California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range fills the horizon and Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in the continental United States, is on the far left. Taken with Sony ILCE-7RIII camera, … Read more
Circles and Curves © Sean Goebel Viewed from under a quadruple arch, the stars circle around … [+] Polaris, in this stack of 33 four-minute exposures. California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range fills the horizon and Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in the continental United States, is on the far left. Taken with Sony ILCE-7RIII camera, … Read more
A binary star system, 5,000 light-years from Earth, that explodes in a dramatic nova every 15 years has been seen by a pair of MAGIC telescopes. RS Ophiuchi (RS Oph) is in the constellation of the Serpent Bearer and is made up of a white dwarf and a red giant that is on the cusp … Read more
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