Update the textbooks: UCLA-led research revises theory of how crystals form
3D atomic imaging in advanced materials yields new insights into transitions such as liquid freezing into solid.
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Hot marmot summer! Fat Marmot Week lets you vote for your favorite rotund rodents
Voting for the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Marmot Project contest runs from Aug. 24–28, with the winner crowned Aug. 29.
Podcast: Advocating for science and funding for discoveries
From the lab bench to the California Assembly, UCLA Ph.D. student Jade Fachin makes the case for sustaining stable research.
Turn around, Bruin eyes: Enjoying Aug. 12’s total (solar) eclipse of the heart
UCLA professor Amy Mainzer talks about our sun’s remarkable star quality — and offers a playlist for your solar eclipse soundtrack.
UCLA bioengineer Jason Zhang deploys AI to create proteins never before seen in nature
Protein design algorithms may help unlock secrets of biology and transform the treatment of previously untreatable diseases.
New UCLA engineering studies aim to slow battery aging while idle
Improved next-generation metal-anode batteries could lead to electric vehicle and grid applications.
NSF award to UCLA will put advanced computing at researchers’ fingertips
UCLA will create an Interactive Discovery Laboratory that brings browser-based access to supercomputing, data storage and applications.
UCLA-led team selected for National Science Foundation quantum technology award
The project aims to design a fault-tolerant quantum computer that could open the door to practical quantum advantage.
‘OnlyMarms’: Rodents are baring a bit of fur for science
Faced with the loss of federal funding, UCLA scientists turned to an unexpected online platform to buoy their landmark long-term marmot study.
Female birds have shorter lifespans than male birds, researchers find
UCLA study finds that female birds have a 12% lower survival rate past adulthood.
UCLA engineers observe quantum heat waves at room temperature
The discovery could improve thermal management in electronics and enable advances in quantum and next-generation computing technologies.
Biomedical imaging, autonomous vehicle sensors may get boost from AI designed for physical signals
Research brief: The system uses physics-based machine learning to improve upon an existing imaging technique.
UCLA Health performs first-ever lung transplant with donor organs transported using latest warm-perfusion advances
The "breathing lung" device is modified to keep organs healthier, and most importantly removing excess fluid due to neurogenic pulmonary edema.
UCLA engineers shrink powerful terahertz systems onto a single semiconductor chip
The approach could advance ultrafast wireless communication, imaging and remote sensing.
New process turns mixed plastic waste into hydrogen fuel without sorting
The approach co-led by UCLA Samueli researchers could offer a scalable path to clean energy while improving plastic recycling.
How does anti-doping testing work for athletes? Inside UCLA's Olympic Analytical Laboratory
Founded in 1982 and based in Los Angeles, the OAL tests athlete samples for various professional sports associations.
Voices of childhood cancer: A rare bone cancer took a teen off the basketball court – but not for long
Even as she was coming to terms with the diagnosis, Ava Hernandez was dreaming of playing again.
Young women diagnosed with breast cancer within 3 years of childbirth may face more aggressive disease, UCLA study finds
A gene expression test identifies the first three years after childbirth as a potential window of higher biological risk.
UCLA scientists bring real-world experiences — and pop culture — into LA classrooms
Broad Stem Cell Research Center researchers use Pokémon, LeBron James to help science click for high school students.
How UCLA Health's Space Medicine Program is working to keep astronauts healthy in space
Director of the UCLA Space Medicine Program, Dr. Haig Aintablian, spends his days immersed in groundbreaking research and space-adjacent experiences.
Should lowest-risk prostate ‘cancer’ still be called cancer? Study suggests changing the name could save lives
A UCLA-led study finds changing the terminology for Grade Group 1 prostate cancer may reduce overtreatment while encouraging more appropriate screening.
UCLA team uses 3D printing to develop zinc-ion hybrid battery with 7 times more energy
Supercapacitors face storage limitations because energy can only be held on the surface of their electrodes.
A bridge to scientific discovery: UCLA receives $1.4 million from W.M. Keck Foundation
The seven projects supported by the grant pair early-career faculty and doctoral students in critical and emerging areas of research.
UCLA Health study documents successful one-year outcome following first-ever bladder transplant
The findings highlight key insights from two subsequent bladder transplants performed at UCLA Health.
Neanderthals in Western Europe were doing well right before they went extinct
The research examined DNA extracted from the bones of 27 individuals who lived in the Meuse Basin between 49,000 and 40,000 B.C.E.