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The UCLA professor discusses how power, geopolitics and economics play out on the internet and through digital technologies.

UCLA gastroenterologist and alumna Dr. Lin Chang, whose research focuses on the brain-gut connection, advocates for whole-person care.

Eric Avila, Martha Bailey, Wesley Campbell, Helen Deutsch and Elaine Hsiao were recognized at an event hosted by Randall Park.

A UCLA-led study shows that stars merging through collisions may explain how supermassive black holes formed so early in time.

UCLA researchers map how mechanical forces open DNA, enabling more precise and efficient gene activation by CRISPR to boost cell conversion.

In the latest episode of “Cabinet of Curiosities,” Shanti Lindberg explains why we should love and not fear these backyard beauties.

Research brief: With further development, the findings could provide the basis for new technologies such as energy-efficient computer memory.

The study from the Center for Scholars & Storytellers at UCLA provides insight into young people’s media preferences.

Brand and her research partners have been examining how workers who lose AI-exposed jobs move to other occupations.

In a newly published study, UCLA scientists say the stage is set for potentially higher records for extreme rainfall in 2027.

A group of biogeochemists have shown that a rare form of the gas can act as a fingerprint for microbial nitrogen conversion.

New grants will safeguard at-risk records of community memory and history, making them accessible for future generations.

A new study by the UCLA–UC Berkeley Deportation Data Project examined arrests and removals across seven Southern California counties.

The latest California Latino GDP report shows that Latinos propelled the state’s economic growth in 2024.

UCLA researchers show for the first time that human brain assembloids can reproduce the hallmark electrical changes seen during general anesthesia.

A fungus thought to infect amphibians in water has been found by UCLA biologists to proliferate in the threatened toad’s winter burrows.

UCLA’s Amy Vandiver studies how age-related damage affects our cells’ behavior and what aging skin might reveal about the rest of the body.

The new center will advance clinical care, research and innovation aimed at helping people remain active, independent and engaged throughout life.

UCLA and University of Michigan roboticists found that the mechanism releases energy that enables the robot to hop, flip and swim.

In a once-in-a-century event, an impact left a crater the size of two football fields and churned the surface for over 3 km in every direction.

A UCLA study of more than 14,000 patient-drug pairs finds insurers and patients paid less for biosimilars than for brand-name biologics.

A new study from UCLA provides critical insights into how the January 2025 wildfire impacted air quality downwind of the fires.

Two new memorandums of understanding broaden opportunities for biomedical research, teaching, scholarly exchange and more.

Research brief: The cells outperformed a single-target version in mice, a lab-grown mini blood vessel and artery tissue from heart disease patients.

Rooted in UCLA research, self-organizing systems provide energy-efficient, local complement to cloud computing.