Tag: Los Angeles
Are Southern death-row inmates more polite?
Southern states are known to uphold a culture of honor and adhere to traditional politeness norms, but does this hold true for death-row convicts?...
White boys show highest prevalence of color blindness among preschoolers
African-Americans have lowest rate of color blindness among young males
The first major study of color blindness in a multi-ethnic group of preschoolers has uncovered...
NASA Model Provides a 3-D Look at L.A.-area Quake
On March 28, residents of Greater Los Angeles experienced the largest earthquake to strike the region since 2008. The magnitude 5.1 quake was centered...
Geographers create ‘easy button’ to calculate river flows from space
The frustrated attempts of a UCLA graduate student to quantify the amount of water draining from Greenland's melting ice sheet led him to devise...
Lawns across America: Is the US becoming one shade of green?
Boston and Baltimore. Miami and Minneapolis. Phoenix and Los Angeles. Fanned across the United States and in locations from coast to prairie to desert, what...
Virtual bees help to unravel complex causes of colony decline
New computer model to help scientists, beekeepers and regulators to understand multiple environmental effects on honeybee colonies
Scientists have created an ingenious computer model that...
NASA Satellite Eyes Soggy Storm Approaching California
A swirling Eastern Pacific Ocean storm system headed for California was spotted by NOAA's GOES-West satellite on February 28. According to the National Weather...
U.S. ranks near bottom in efficiency of health care spending
A new study by researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and McGill University in Montreal reveals that the United States health...
L.A. ‘hoods show big differences in transit-related air pollution
UCLA researchers pitted four Los Angeles neighborhoods head-to-head to compare their air pollution levels and found that while more affluent neighborhoods generally fared better,...
Warehouse jobs are no path to the middle class
When President Barack Obama visited an Amazon.com shipping facility in Chattanooga, Tenn., earlier this year — part of a tour titled “A Better Bargain...
