Violent crimes are down across the city of Los Angeles, including homicides, aggravated assaults and robberies, city ...

Police have not released the victim's name. District representative Katy Yaroslavsky issued a statement condemning the attack saying, "LAPD is actively investigating this incident, and while law ...

The accusations come at a time when the LAPD, like other police departments across the country, is struggling to recruit officers and retain others. McDonnell signed off on the officers’ removal ...

It can be hard, looking at Roddenberry’s contributions to Trek, to see where he isn’t taking credit for someone else’s work (Gene Coon, for instance, or script editor D.C. Fontana ...

The LAPD initiated a pursuit of a vehicle for a possible burglary around 3:16 a.m. near the intersection of Sherman Way and Sepulveda Boulevard. The California Highway Patrol confirmed that during ...

At around 3:15 a.m., the police responded to a burglary-in-progress at a business at 15355 Sherman Way in Van Nuys, said Officer Rosario Cervantes, a LAPD spokesperson. The three suspects fled the ...

In the late 2010s eight macaque monkeys were born at a laboratory in Shanghai. At first they seemed much like the other infants in the colony, but differences soon became obvious. They were much ...

Building a gene editor took months. With CRISPR even high-schoolers can get hold of editing systems in the time it takes to order RNA sequences online and have them shipped by FedEx. In a short ...

Gene Roddenberry’s vision of the future in Star Trek: The Original Series included an equal workforce. He wanted to keep the number of male and female crew members on the Enterprise to be equal and he ...

Gene regulation refers to the mechanisms that act to induce or repress the expression of a gene. These include structural and chemical changes to the genetic material, binding of proteins to ...

A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in humans may have helped us communicate in a novel way. Speech allowed us to ...