Science + Technology

The Eli and Edythe Broad Stem Cell Research Center recently named the winners of its campus-wide light microscopy image and video contest.

“The advance is like the transition from black-and-white TV to color TV,” said UCLA professor Aydogan Ozcan.

With financial assistance from the cast and crew of the TV show, Jonathan Shi is planning a career in medicine to give back to his community.

The society is the premier organization of professional astronomers in North America.

Mackenzie, professor emeritus of materials science and engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, died Feb. 19. He was 94.

Kleinrock was awarded the campus’s highest honor for his contributions in providing the intellectual foundation for the modern technical age.

UCLA paleobiologist’s pursuit to uncover Earth’s earliest record of life has spanned 60 years and counting.

Researchers found that Himba have the highest rate of “extra-pair paternity.” The term refers to a case in which a child is born to a married couple, but the husband is not the biological father.

Alumnae Patricia Coleman James and Coretta Harris, along with current student Imani Elston, discuss the early days and how the chapter has evolved.

Advanced statistical techniques enabled UCLA researchers to look backward in time hundreds of thousands of years without fossil DNA.

Wondering how to woo your crush this Valentine’s Day? When it comes to love, don’t wing it — take a lesson from the birds (and bees) instead.

Nobel, who is a plant physiological ecologist, is the world’s leading authority on the environmental biology of agaves and cacti.

UCLA is tied for fifth in the number of professors honored this year as early-career scientists and scholars who are rising stars of science.

Murthy has been dean of UCLA Engineering since January 2016. She is the first woman to hold the position.

The patch significantly prolonged survival and reduced the growth of tumors in mice.

UCLA-led research also finds that travel-related screening for coronavirus will identify less than half of those infected.

Nano-related science and art were on display during the UCLA-MindshareLA event, which underscored UCLA’s commitment to share the knowledge it’s creating beyond Westwood.

Invented by researchers from UCLA and China, the coating was inspired by a natural mechanism that keeps blood from freezing in some fish species.

The results should be useful to scientists studying genes involved in sleep, vision, memory and many other processes in humans.

A UCLA-led study finds the practice effective and comparable to monitoring by physicians.

The cross-disciplinary institute involving Engineering and the School of Law will examine advances in artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, robotics and new forms of digital media to identify their benefits and risks.

Co-author Andrea Ghez says the objects look like gas and behave like stars.

Since 2014, the program has consistently been ranked first or second in the country.

Magnetic storms originate closer to Earth than previously thought, threatening satellites.

The key is a new catalyst: copper with a few atoms of the precious metal ruthenium.