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For the last 18 years, UCLA’s Lisa Snyder has been bringing to life the bygone glory of a true architectural, social and cultural wonder — the Chicago World’s Fair.

The new cell construction extends the cell’s effective life in air by more than 10 times, with only a marginal loss of efficiency converting sunlight to electricity.

Though the deformities are almost imperceptible to the human eye, the super–slow-motion flowing effect limits the maximum size of large glass screens.

Professor George Geis writes in Zócalo that he expects the company to resume acquiring small companies when the boom-bust cycle rebalances.

Professor Bhagwan Chowdhry writes that Narendra Modi should leverage his country’s connections to Silicon Valley to make it easier for educated IT professionals to return to India and help implement the Digital India initiative.

Professor John Villasenor writes on Slate that the cyberattackers would bear primary responsibility but manufacturers and car owners could face some liability, too.

The method may help lead to much smaller but more powerful linear electron-positron colliders — machines that could be used to understand the properties of nature’s fundamental building blocks.

The UCLA/University of Pennsylvania team won first place at RoboCup, a global robot soccer tournament held in China.

UCLA Anderson professor Bhagwan Chowdhry writes that until online transactions are free of onerous regulations and fees, and are more intuitive to learn to use, cash will remain king for many.

The hands-on, 3-D virtual landscape lets students sculpt mountains, valleys and rivers — then fill them with water.

Because topological insulators are so tiny, scientists have, until now, been unable to fully understand how the defects impact their functionality.

Tobias Higbie is a UCLA scholar of labor history who is using digitized historical records to gain new perspectives about labor and social movements of past eras.

Doctors needed to determine prior to surgery whether a replacement valve would fit, given the unusual structure of the patient’s heart.

Better mentorship, revised performance reviews and more transparency are among the recommendations shared at a recent UCLA conference that attempted to figure out how to increase the number of women in tech.

UCLA Anderson alumnus Dan Russ teamed up with his best friend to create Click2Speak, one of the most successful “social good” startups coming out of Israel.

UCLA faculty, staff and students, with guidance from a Santa Monica architect, are building a prototype dwelling that they designed to shelter people as well as edible plants, bees, birds, lizards and even bats.

UCLA robotics expert Dennis Hong and a team of students competed with THOR, their humanoid robot, in a contest to build a robot that can go places too dangerous for humans.

Material creates an instant scaffold that allows new tissue to latch on and grow within cavities formed between linked spheres of gel.

UCLA professor Linda Sax is leading a multi-institutional study that could help determine ways to increase the low numbers of women, in particular women of color, in college computer science programs.

Folklore scholar Tim Tangherlini has organized a large collection into a database that can be searched by topic, storyteller and location.

UCLA's Judea Pearl, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, will receive an Honorary Doctor of Science and Technology degree from Carnegie Mellon University.

The launch of UCLA startups has resulted in the creation of more than 4,400 jobs and contributed a total of $1.1 billion to the economy.

UCLA’s Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology is holding its first-ever, grand-scale robotic surgical training sessions over two days, concluding today. 

New compact, reliable energy storage devices outperform batteries by holding larger amounts of energy, recharging more quickly and lasting for longer recharge cycles.

UCLA professor John Villasenor testified in a U.S. Senate hearing on issues of safety and privacy in the use of unmanned aircraft systems.