Tag: Los Angeles Times
'I don't want him to go': An autistic teen and his family face stark choices
Christine LyBurtus was aching and fearful of what might happen when her 13-year-old son returned home.Noah had been sent to Children’s Hospital...
Earthquake risks and rising costs: The price of operating California's last nuclear plant
SAN LUIS OBISPO — Under two gargantuan domes of thick concrete and steel that rise along California’s rugged Central Coast, subatomic particles...
Algae here, alien life out there — Cal State L.A.-JPL partnership connects engineers to astrobiology
When Erika Flores applied for an internship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2014, she wasn’t quite sure if her undergraduate work...
Fast, wet and furious: How the North American monsoon floods the California desert
In the middle of summer, most Southern Californians would be surprised to see more than a handful of clouds in the sky...
What it's like to travel to Maui right now — one year after the catastrophic wildfire
Five hundred feet outside the Lahaina burn zone, the tourists receive their leis. As the torches of the Old Lahaina Luau flicker,...
A weird, whimsical game is hiding in the bookshelves at Los Angeles Public Library
Imagine that your local public library is inhabited by an undiscovered race of tiny people. They’ve hidden themselves in the racks, tucked...