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VR can impart experiences that range from being a Sudanese refugee seeking asylum to being a different sex, even to living with physical disabilities. The post Maybe VR Shouldn't Give You Heaven—Maybe You Need Hardship appeared first on WIRED.

Next step: Robots that walk themselves off the printer. The post MIT Can Now 3-D Print Robots Made of Both Solids and Liquids appeared first on WIRED.

Green Eagle: It's the latest huge wrapup of wingnut craziness -- he finds enough material to do two or three of these per month!

AROUND a quarter of all dole recipients are skipping job interviews or failing to accept decent work, new data reveals.

The Brazilian was an injury doubt for the Merseysiders' trip to Signal Iduna Park after missing Saturday's draw with Tottenham, but has travelled with his team-mates to Germany

At the risk of being a puffer, here are some obscure things to call a quill-driver.

Habitat for Humanity left three families homeless when they purchased several buildings in Bedford-Stuyvesant to refurbish.

You're familiar with the phrase "out with the old, in with the new," right? With a new festival season comes new festival season trends (we're saying goodbye to Kendall...

Sexism is driving women away from the GOP front-runner Donald Trump and the Republican Party, potentially providing a windfall to Hillary Clinton in a general election.

Los Angeles County will consider new water-saving requirements for developers and look at tax options to pay for future drought planning under a pair of measures adopted Tuesday. 

I'm Davan Maharaj, editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don't want you to miss today.

Alan Alda - actor, director, writer and devoted science buff - is using his energy field these days on behalf of a university center that bears his name, one that's dedicated to teaching scientists how to explain their work to the very people who most need to know: the sometimes science-perplexed...

Not only is Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump sticking to his cockamamie proposal to build a wall along the 1,954-mile U.S.-Mexico border, he's now outlined how he would compel the Mexican government to pay for it. In the process, he displays significant ignorance about human migration,...

Good morning. It is Wednesday, April 6. Here's what is happening in the Golden State:

The headlines about the “Panama Papers,” the gigantic trove of offshore records that surfaced this week, were all about the famous names connected to secret financial accounts: Russia's Vladimir Putin, Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko, China's Xi Jinping, Syria's Bashar Assad, Saudi Arabia's King Salman...

The Los Angeles County auditor reported Tuesday that Proposition 47 has generated millions of dollars in cost savings, but the most significant part of his findings had to do with the county's jarringly inadequate grasp of the basic numbers that describe and measure its workload.You will recall...

To the editor: I see the argument supporting the apparent cold-blooded killing of a wounded Palestinian who had stabbed an Israeli soldier as analogous to the myriad excuses given by American police officers who shoot unarmed people with impunity. ("In Israel, many now find justification for the...

To the editor: The only way to stop street racing is to ban cars that belong on a racetrack, not on a city street. But if we can't ban very fast cars, we should regulate them. ("Could a regional law enforcement task force put a dent in deadly street racing?," April 2)

To the editor: This very successful long-term “asset protection” industry in Panama assists some of the world's heads of state, their families, and their friends — in Russia, Pakistan, China and a dozen other nations — in squirreling away their millions to avoid taxation. ("After massive 'Panama...

The Democratic presidential candidates want the wealthy to pay a lot more in taxes while the Republican candidates say they think everyone, very much including the wealthy, should pay less. That disagreement has been at the crux of America's rapid-fire budget-related crises, from the near-default...

After more than 10 years of analysis, a 5,000-page environmental impact report, countless public hearings and seven lawsuits, a judge last week blocked plans to build a new rail yard at the Port of Los Angeles. The new yard, to be known as the Southern California International Gateway, was planned...

To the editor: Americans have decided to put interventionism back on the radar. ("Campaign 2016: Candidates need to say more about the U.S. role as the world's policeman," editorial, April 3)

To the editor: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is riding the wave of poverty and misfortune in places like the Bakersfield area community of Oildale. Blaming Hispanics for blue-collar injustices only causes prejudice and fractures communities. ("Conservative Oildale could be a bellwether...

Movies and novels about scientists tend to trade on the socially inept genius who can win a Nobel Prize but not the girl, and on science itself being inscrutable and mysterious. Real science is nothing like that, but how do we know that if scientists can’t tell us? Alan Alda, the actor, writer...