Science + Technology

UCLA’s department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences fieldwork immerses students in discovery.

Four baby planets show how super-Earths and sub-Neptunes form.

Across medicine, environmental studies, public policy, the social sciences and beyond, UCLA scholars in 2025 continued turning discovery into real-world impact.

Check out 13 of the year's most unusual discoveries, which prove groundbreaking science doesn’t always look serious at first glance.

Urban junco bills at UCLA became more like mountain junco bills.

UCLA study finds gut microbes are evolving differently in industrialized and non-industrialized parts of the world.

The pioneering genetic scientist, whose research transformed plant molecular biology and whose teaching enriched the lives of generations of UCLA students, died Nov. 21.

From preserving memory and generating clean water to revolutionizing modern communications, UCLA researchers have transformed nearly every aspect of modern life.

Meet Maher El-Kady, working toward a more sustainable energy future, and Dr. Dennis Slamon, groundbreaking breast cancer researcher and clinician.

UCLA’s Eric Deeds on how unstable federal funding jeopardizes both discovery and the everyday lives it protects.

The revolutionary achievement could lead to smaller, more efficient nuclear clocks.

The study is the first large-scale clinical trial to show that a new oral endocrine therapy outperforms the long-standing standard therapies used for early-stage HR-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer.

UCLA’s Osvaldo Gutierrez is working to make sure everyone has access to game-changing drugs.

The new grant will fund the enrollment of 10 additional patients in the trial and support research into the science behind immune tolerance.

Peer-reviewed studies detail use of techniques to better track the spread of disease and highlight UCLA Fielding’s work on public health methodology.

The volunteer-led event drew more than 12,000 visitors in its 17th year.

The CellXpress.AI is here and it’s ready to improve speed, flexibility, efficiency and reproducibility in studies.

A UCLA-led study of what’s called a supershear earthquake reveals how fault structure and rock contrasts enabled one of the fastest continental ruptures ever observed.

It is the first time the novel imaging technique has been used on telescopes.

UCLA’s three most recent alumni Nobel winners — Fred Ramsdell, Ardem Patapoutian and Randy Schekman — said their experience as Bruins loomed particularly large in their scientific development.

A genetic mechanism inserts mutations into key DNA hotspots that enable bacteria to adapt to new environments.

The neurons, most active when a decision outcome is unknown, appear to help with decision making and flexibility.

The UC Berkeley professor, known as the inventor of reticular chemistry, was at UCLA from 2006 to 2011.

Funded entirely by taxpayer dollars, this first-of-its-kind drug targets cellular metabolism to promote tissue repair of multiple organs.

Dr. Beate Ritz’s research in California’s Central Valley highlights the role of the environment in the neurodegenerative disorder.