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Q&A with UCLA professor Sarah Roberts, who has pioneered the study of the toll screening objectionable online content takes on the people who have to do it.

Finance professor Bhagwan Chowdhry says protectionist barriers won’t stop robots from taking U.S. jobs.

“Climate Lab” — a six-episode video series on climate change from Vox and the University of California — is already getting plenty of attention although it's just getting started.

The funds will support the researchers’ efforts to develop a process for capturing carbon dioxide and converting it into a material that can be used in building and construction.

Rankings by the Milken Institute put UCLA No. 1 in the nation when it comes to the number of startup companies launched as a result of campus research, no. 15 overall.

Researchers have developed an optical micro-oscillator that could lead to next-generation timing, navigation and sensing applications.

The findings could lead to a new class of powerful, high-quality lasers for use in medical imaging, and chemical sensing and detection.

Miriam Posner writes about how get-girls-to-code initiatives that aim to fix tech’s gender imbalance may unintentionally help reinforce it.

Ramesh Srinivasan, an associate professor of information studies, has studied revolutions in Egypt and Kyrgyzstan and the role of digital media in supporting indigenous communities.

The program drew from the expertise of more than two dozen speakers from film and television studios, law firms, talent agencies, new media powerhouses and venture capital companies.

The combined dye/cellphone reader system achieved comparable results to equipment costing tens of thousands of dollars more.

UCLA will hold three workshops on campus over the next year to assess and enhance STEM programs for undergraduates.

The terahertz part of the spectrum has potential uses in biological sensing and medical imaging and chemical identification.

A UCLA team creates a "smart" mobile tool that may be used to diagnose and treat serious infections and diseases.

Anke Audenaert, an assistant adjunct professor of marketing at UCLA’s Anderson School, never planned on working in the tech industry. But after spending more than 15 years working at various tech companies, she has charted a path to success in that field.

The device, developed by UCLA’s Aydogan Ozcan and colleagues in Sweden, could be manufactured for less than $500 each — far less expensive than the equipment that labs use for the same tests.

The key is “sequentially switched delay lines,” an approach similar to the way passenger trains are routed from one track to another, to allow them to enter and exit train stations at the same time and avoid collisions.

Two UCLA faculty members — molecular biologist Robert Goldberg and international law and policy scholar Edward Parson — defended the use of genetically modified organisms in food production at a Zócalo/UCLA discussion held in downtown Los Angeles.

A simple and inexpensive attachment could help to expand testing to regions with limited resources.

Researchers from the schools of dentistry, medicine and engineering developed a digital health platform capable of optimizing efficacy and safety during chemotherapy.

Modifying the structure of molybdenum trioxide could lead to laptop computers that fully charge in minutes, last for hours.

An multidisciplinary team designed an algorithm that could discern structured narratives within the flow of posts on the internet reflecting how humans communicate.

Visitors to the new UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center will be assisted by a robot concierge built by UCLA engineering students.

UCLA and Caltech researchers created jagged platinum nanowires that would require only 1/50 as much platinum as used in current smooth-shaped wires.

Learn from experts on geographic information systems (GIS) and take part in a 'Mapathon' at UCLA's Charles Young Research Library.