Contributor: How federally funded research saved my son’s sight — and his life — from a rare cancer
If you want to make this country great, imagine the strength of a nation whose children have been fought for...
Thursday, July 9, 2026
Science • Technology
Contributor: Vaccines are out, measles is in
They say everything old is new again. Here are a few outdated bacteria and viruses looking to trend again as...
RFK Jr. wants to make food safer. Trump wants to make it cheaper. Can we have both?
To hear Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tell it, making America healthy again means making American food healthy again. The nation’s...
Guest writer: The Trump administration schooled Europe on free speech. Why ignore the lesson at home?
Vice President JD Vance’s wise words to Europe about U.S. commitments to free speech are on a collision course with...
‘Like someone put a blanket over the ocean’: Kelp could be among fires’ casualties
The boat bobbed gently off Malibu’s Big Rock Beach as a trio of scientific divers wriggled into wetsuits and double-checked...
New JPL space mission seeks to unravel the mystery of cosmic ‘inflation’
Before there was light, there was cosmic inflation.Before life, planet Earth, the first galaxies — and even before the violent...
Who’s still playing Pokémon Go? Ask any of the 48,000 people at this Rose Bowl event
On the golf course just outside the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, thousands of people stride across the grass, phones in...
Mass firings across NOAA and National Weather Service ignite fury among scientists worldwide
As federal job eliminations struck the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service on Thursday, scientists and...
Killing 166 million birds hasn’t helped poultry farmers stop H5N1. Is there a better way?
When the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus made its first appearance at a U.S. poultry farm in February 2022, roughly...
Teens are spilling dark thoughts to AI chatbots. Who’s to blame when something goes wrong?
When her teen with autism suddenly became angry, depressed and violent, the mother searched his phone for answers. She found...
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