USC steals 2 star brain researchers from UCLA
In a major case of academic poaching involving crosstown rivals, USC has lured away two prominent neuroscientists from UCLA with a promise to expand...
Invasion of the 17-year cicada: Predators, even people, will feast
As the East Coast of the United States braces for the deafening invasion of the 17-year cicada, a motley collection of predators -- including some...
A wife's Alzheimer's, a husband's obsession
When his wife got Alzheimer's disease, lawyer Ken Chiate invested all his hopes in an unorthodox treatment.
15,000-year-old 'fossil' words reveal ancestral Ice Age language
Would Ice Age man understand us? It may depend on the words we choose. Digging through languages in Eurasia for "fossil" words that have escaped...
Radioactive tuna from Fukushima? Scientists eat it up
Marine biologist Dan Madigan stood on a dock in San Diego and considered some freshly caught Pacific bluefin tuna. The fish had managed to swim 5,...