The space shuttle Endeavor made a safe touch-down last night at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and now the countdown has begun for its arrival in Los Angeles as part of a permanent exhibit at the California Science Center. more ›

LA is home to some of the world's biggest, best, most well-known, and most important museums, as well as some lesser-known gems. The role of museums in providing an informal educational experience for children and adults alike is clear, but it often costs money to go to these museums. And even though the money almost always goes directly back into the museums' operations, if you love museums as much as we do, then you could make a pretty sizable dent in your bank account. more ›

What if I told you that just minutes from downtown Los Angeles, situated between USC and the LA Memorial Coliseum in historic Exposition Park, there exists a kelp forest, which is home to more than 1,500 fish and other marine animals? more ›

Another win for Los Angeles. The city will be the first stop on a three-year international mummies exhibit, touted as "the largest traveling exhibition of mummies ever assembled." Considering the popularity of the King Tut Exhibit at LACMA five years ago, it's safe to say this exhibit should draw just as many crowds when it opens on July 1st at the California Science Center in Exposition Park. more ›

It has long been held that the mysteries of the human body be revealed to a select group of degree laden individuals, physicians and scientists alike, whose rigorous scholastic upbringing served as an all access pass to our anatomy and physiology. The layperson, meanwhile, was left to entrust his or her precious and vastly complicated system to the aforementioned guru or, more often then not, lay awake at night worrying about that enigmatic pain that just won’t go away. But with the advent of reality TV and the sequencing of the human genome, the disparity between those who know and those who don’t is slowly going the way of bloodletting and elecrtroshock therapy. At the forefront of the movement to reveal the machine behind the curtain is Body Worlds' inventor Dr. Gunther von Hagens, whose patented process of Plastination has allowed the human (and equine) body to be preserved in a state of undress. more ›

Photo of Volunteer Park in Seattle by sunrisesoup via Flickr more ›

If hitting a 95-mile and hour fastball is a monstrous feat of athletic ability, then competing in the Tour de France is an almost incomprehensible feat of brainpower. When your brain says no, when your muscles ache, and when your body begins to shut down from the pain of riding 100 miles every day for a month, how do you continue to ride up the face of some of the tallest mountains in the world? more ›

- Is LAX really trying to more than double the rent on several low-cost airlines? - Daily News - Speaking of LAX, SkyWest celebrated their 30th anniversary with the airport - Yahoo - Speaking of anniversaries, Little Ethiopia is preparing to celebrate Big Ethiopia's millennium - Nazret - Brandy is being sued by the sons of the woman who died in last year's car crash - AP - The LA Daily News takes a... more ›

- When TomKat, J.Lo, and Marc Anthony all have to cram into the back seat of a Rolls because one of their cars breaks down, the li'l guys sit on the hump - Celebrity Puke - Donald Trump gets his hard-earned star on the walk of fame after his years of innovation on television - ABC - LA has the largest amount of homeless people in the USA - VOA - Ontario and Palmdale... more ›

"They're giving it away free? It must be good!" Put on your best pair of ripped jeans and a collared shirt (floss it, of course). It’s time for all the broke posers of LA to pretend they’re cultured! You can’t miss with the second annual "Museums Free-For-All" day on Sunday, October 1. Of course, those broke non-posers will probably realize that most of the 20 participating museums are normally completely free (Getty Center, California... more ›

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If you want a dose of smartness on Saturday, what could be better than the Science Matters panel on The Science and Ethics of Reproductive Cloning? The 2-hour discussion starts at 1:30pm at the California Science Center at Expo Park and is absolutely free. Smart, lively Geoffrey Cowan — Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at USC — will moderate, which is a good sign. The panel will talk about hard science, perhaps explaining how you clone a cat, and then talk about implications of cloning humans. Would a ban work, or is human cloning inevitable? Would it be ethical to clone humans for health reasons? For offspring? Where do we draw the line? more ›

Some women hit that thirty-something time of life and go a little crazy. Take, for example, the two who were caught on tape pocketing a plastinated 13-week old fetus at the BodyWorlds2 exhibit at the California Science Center. They absconded with their little bundle of joy around 3am Saturday, when the exhibit was open overnight as part of its closing weekend. Maybe they just couldn't bear to leave emptyhanded — LAist was compelled to purchase a keychain to commemorate our visit to the original BodyWorlds — and we wouldn't be surprised if they couldn't stop singing "The night we met I knew I needed you so." Now the LAPD are on the lookout for a brunette wearing dark clothes and a blonde with a red scarf. Sounds like a tough case to crack; maybe they'll stake out Plastica and see if the pair come in to try to make a sale. more ›

During a visit last night, we overheard a woman mumur to her sullen, teenage son as they both examined the tar-blackened lungs of a deceased smoker: more ›

But then came plastination, the process in which a human body is, in effect, transformed into a skinless action figure. This fascinating, though creepy, process is currently on display at the California Science Center, in an exhibition called, appropriately enough, Body Worlds. more ›