Science + Technology

A planet 100 light-years away that resembles a young Jupiter has been discovered by an international team of astronomers that includes six UCLA scientists.

Fuel cells and hydrogen batteries are already important sources of green energy, but further advances will require scientists and engineers to better understand how the technologies work.

UCLA Engineering has joined with a Korean youth organization to establish the program, which will focus on addressing malaria and other global health challenges.

Researchers from the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability call for a federal ban on salamander imports to prevent a deadly pathogen from coming here.

Staff meteorologist James Murakami has been forecasting the weather for Westwood and the surrounding region for 33 years.

Catalina eddy? June gloom? Santa Ana winds? UCLA staff meteorologist James Murakami defines common Southern California weather terms.

The Science and Entertainment Exchange at UCLA connects scientists with filmmakers to bring scientific accuracy to the big screen.

The new ceramics hold promise for use in miniature mechanical components and flexible-yet-strong foils for use in solar sails, which are used to propel spacecraft, among many other applications.

The DNA-based discovery means the biological family Canidae has 36 members, not 35.

Two UCLA astronomy professors are playing an important role in an international initiative to build the Cherenkov Telescope Array.

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

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

Material is easier and less expensive to make than the current standard, but had not previously been shown to emit light.

Researchers from UCLA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory found that extra heat from greenhouse gases has been trapped in the subsurface waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans.

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

The finding is a major advance because the high-energy particles can be harmful for satellites and humans in space.

The chemistry professor engages students in part by showing how the subject is relevant to everyday life, medicine and even pop culture.

Scientists from UCLA and City of Hope have become the first to inhibit the mechanism of a protein that regulates a key process that causes cancer to grow.

The findings strongly suggest that stem cell-based gene therapy with a chimeric antigen receptor may be an effective treatment for chronic HIV infection in humans.

Results could one day have an impact on the development of a treatment for osteoporosis as well as potentially help those with traumatic bone injuries.

“Hyperentanglement” allows each paired photons to carry much more data than was possible with previous methods.

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.

The three-year project aims to fill critical gaps in knowledge about concussion and translate research findings into new safety guidelines for the more than 450,000 U.S. collegiate student-athletes.

A new technology developed by chemists at UCLA is capable of storing solar energy for up to several weeks — an advance that could redefine the way scientists approach solar cell design.

New research sheds light on the Earth’s climate over geologic time scales.