Women and minorities are faring better in Hollywood and feature prominently at this year's upcoming Oscars, but they are still woefully underrepresented overall in the entertainment industry, according to a report.
The "2017 Hollywood Diversity Report" -- the fourth in a series by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at the University of California Los Angeles --Read more
What should happen in an Olympic host city after the torch goes out?
For the International Olympic Committee (IOC), ensuring the Games leave a positive legacy in host communities has become a top concern, especially after multi-billion dollar facilities built for Athens 2004 were left to waste away.
The 2024 finalists Los Angeles, Paris and Budapest will from Friday presentRead more
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that elderly women who sit for more than 10 hours a day with low physical activity have cells that are biologically older by eight years compared to women who are less sedentary.
The study, publishing online January 18 in the American Journal of Epidemiology, found elderly women with lessRead more
Researchers with University of California have worked to find how sunflowers not only pivot to face the sun as it moves across the sky during the day, but they also rotate 180 degrees during the night to greet the morning sun.
Their findings include: sunflowers have linked their internal clock genes to stem growth, so that the eastern side ofRead more