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Research brief: The team developed an approach to visualizing structure called microcrystal electron diffraction, which allowed the researchers to confirm how the newly discovered molecular assembly pathway works.

Does the physicist’s theory tell the full story? A detailed analysis of a star’s orbit near supermassive black hole gives a look into how gravity behaves.

The research addresses a longstanding question: Why does the moon have so much less ice than Mercury, despite their similar surface conditions?

When fathers are involved in the care of their children, men and women are more upset about infidelities, according to the UCLA-led cross-cultural research.

Q&A with professor Jonathan Stewart about what the team he organized learned in the aftermath of the Ridgecrest earthquakes.

The researchers' study builds on their discovery last year of a gene called mEAK-7, which is important for cell proliferation and migration.

Results of the UCLA-led study contradict a long-held classical theory.

Dr. Zhijian (James) Chen of the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas is the recipient. Chen has performed groundbreaking work on the mechanisms underlying the cellular response to infection.

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.

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

Stories on mobile clinics, earthquake science and Jackie Robinson.

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.