Scientific Exploration

NASA's former associate administrator for Science, S. Alan Stern, has been named director of the Florida Space Institute at Kennedy Space Center.  Stern will help the institute, a part of the University of Central Florida, develop projects that align...

I love dogs as much as the next person — OK, more than the next person. But I have my doubts about the red-hot genre of "doggie wisdom" books, in which dogs teach us valuable lessons about what it is to be, well, human. Sure, a headstrong pup...

It may be hard for those who grew up watching "Will & Grace" to imagine the shock and excitement when Mart Crowley's "The Boys in the Band" caught fire off-Broadway in 1968, becoming one of the most discussed, derided and defended dramas of its era. A...

Updated: January 2011 INTRODUCTION The goal of the Los Angeles Times Media Group is to publish news and information of the highest quality. This requires The Times, across its entire portfolio of editorial products, to be, above all else, a......

January 2011 INTRODUCTION The goal of the Los Angeles Times Media Group is to publish news and information of the highest quality. This requires our newsrooms, across our entire portfolio of editorial products, to be, above all else, a principled news...

There are few places on Earth that are so mysterious and so little known as the depths of the sea.  But scientists are learning and discovering much about a rich habitat that exists in the frigid depths off the Florida coasts – on deep water...

Turbulence A Novel Giles Foden Alfred A. Knopf: 318 pp., $25.95 There is a game in which one child suggests several things — a rose, say, a chocolate cake, a steam engine — and another improvises a story linking them. Giles Foden's...

"The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That" is PBS' new animated series for young children, which premieres on Sept. 6. What does the Cat know a lot about? Science! Based on the The Cat in the Hat's......

WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden announced today that chief-of-staff George Whitesides would be leaving the agency. Here's the memo: Administrator Charlie Bolden on Friday announced two changes in his leadership team at Headquarters in...

U.S. researchers said Thursday that they have located the remains of two high-tech Japanese submarines that were scuttled by the U.S. Navy off Hawaii in 1946 to prevent the technology from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the...

Edith "Jackie" Ronne, 89, who became the first U.S. woman to set foot on Antarctica when she accompanied her explorer husband there in 1947, died June 14 of cancer and Alzheimer's disease at a Bethesda, Md., nursing home. She was 89. Ronne had never...

Words & Ideas Compiled by Grace Krilanovich. TODAY An Evening of New Nonfiction With Wayne Koestenbaum, Sarah Thornton and David L. Ulin The three authors, of "The Queen's Throat," "Seven Days in the Art World" and "The Myth of Solid Ground,"...