science

The bequest by Sidney Roberts and Clara Szego Roberts reflects the couple’s backgrounds — both benefited from college scholarships — and their passion for science and the arts.

The UCLA team's results could lead to ways to improve antiviral therapy.

UCLA researchers have developed a much faster and more accurate method to evaluate the formation of a bacterial community, known as a microbiome.

High pressure deep inside the young Earth may have driven vast stores of carbon into the planet’s core while also setting the stage for diamonds to form.

The development by a UCLA-led research team works to keep blood sugar at normal levels.

Panelists will be prominent science journalists, the UCLA professor who is science consultant for the television show “The Big Bang Theory” and an award-winning film producer.

Magnetic pump built by Bruin Space launches on Blue Origin reusable rocket.

Johnson was elected in recognition of her “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”

In tests, perovskite-based cells made with the same chemical found in coffee maintained their power conversion efficiency for several weeks longer than those without it.

Research on 144 countries reveals the opportunities and pitfalls of this fast-growing sector.

The UCLA-led group has created an online resource guide to help scientists in lower-income countries jumpstart research programs.

UCLA professor Kent Hill said the new insights could apply to other disease-causing parasites as well, including those that cause Chagas disease.

The findings answer questions that have been sought ever since 2005, when two Australian scientists won a Nobel Prize for their discovery of H. pylori and its role in gastric conditions.

UCLA astronomer Mark Morris and an international team of collaborators found that the two plumes extend over 500 light-years.

Energy created by the movement of two materials can be harvested from the surrounding environment and converted to electricity by a triboelectric nanogenerator.

25 undergraduates who received the scholarships to pursue science, technology, engineering or math degrees visited the cast and crew as the show wraps its final season.

Denis Chetverikov, Yongjie Hu and Aaswath Raman are among 126 early-career scientists and scholars from across the United States and Canada selected to receive fellowships.

Jacobsen specializes in plant epigenetics — the study of how a gene’s function can change without changes to the DNA sequence.

Only a dozen such quakes have been identified in the past two decades, according to Lingsen Meng, UCLA’s Leon and Joanne V.C. Knopoff Professor of Physics and Geophysics.

Vladimir Vassiliev, professor of physics and astronomy, has served as principal investigator on project that could help address questions in very-high-energy astrophysics.

Changes in RNA editing play an important role in the disorder, scientists find.

At the heart of the dispute is the Hubble constant, a number that relates distances to the redshifts of galaxies — the amount that light is stretched as it travels to Earth.

In a ‘game-changing’ finding, researchers found that bone mass increased 800% after signals were blocked in the brains of mice.

25 years after Northridge, civil and environmental engineers are using artificial intelligence, machine learning, sensor networks and advances in mapping in their work.

Teachers receive free directions, lesson plans and instructional videos for experiments on climate, oceans and atmosphere.