Science + Technology

In an interview, UCLA Physics Professor David Saltzberg shares what it’s like working as thescience consultant on the hit CBS sitcom “The Big Bang Theory.”

An award-winning teacher, professor Neil Garg has managed to find new ways to reach the next generation of scientists taking his no-nonsense organic chemistry class.

The frustrated attempts of a UCLA graduate student to quantify the amount of water draining from Greenland's melting ice sheet led him to devise a new way to measure river flows using satellite images.

More than 4,000 UCLA researchers, staff and student lab personnel picked up lab coats, eyewear and other protective gear during a weeklong event in the Pauley Pavilion Club Room.

UCLA engineering professor Yoram Cohen's Gray2Blue system cleans up a home's gray water for reuse in irrigating the garden. It could save Californians billions of gallons of clean water every day.

Large detectors could potentially see a dark matter signal in the next few years, said UCLA's David Cline, who organizes the biennial conference.

The crumbling asteroid has now divided into as many as 10 pieces, the Hubble telescope has revealed, and scientists say its breakup may be due to the effect of sunlight.

Ever wonder why your laptop gest so warm when you use it? It's wasted energy. But with new magenetic materials, scientists are hoping to save that energy and keep your devices cool as a cucumber.

The researchers, the first to discover the combination of mechanisms that formed the Pacific Plate, used seismic tomography to detect variations in the speed of seismic waves inside the Earth.

For the Academy Award-winning animated film "Frozen," two UCLA mathematicians joined a team of Disney software engineers to develop an algorithm based on the material point method to create simulations of how snow behaves under various conditions.

Users of the wearable computers can take pictures of medical samples, upload them immediately to a server and receive accurate analyses in as little as eight seconds.

The device — which can be produced using a 3-D printer — would enable anyone with even minimal training to test water for toxic mercury contamination.

The UCLA researchers devised a way to produce solar cells using those materials more efficiently and cost-effectively — which could hold promise for large-scale manufacturing.

“I’ve always been interested in carrying out experiments to try to understand how things work,” said professor Richard Kaner, who knew from childhood that he wanted to become a scientist.

A $1.2 million gift from the foundation of late UCLA professor and Nobel laureate Julian Schwinger will enable UCLA to offer fellowships to the world's best physics students.

By growing larger, rangeomorphs, fern-like organisms that existed on the sea floor some 580 million years ago, were able to access nutrient-carrying ocean flows.

Professor John Villasenor, an electrical engineer in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Luskin School of Public Affairs, is a widely published writer on the intersection of technology and public policy.

The powerful Gemini Planet Imager, with an advanced spectrometer designed at UCLA, has collected its first set of images and spectra from several distant planetary systems.

A huge, historic off-campus facility gives UCLA architecture grad students the opportunity to explore how robotic technology can help design intelligent buildings.

The two-and-a-half-year UCLA study found that the protein expression of a typical gene is influenced by many more genetic variants than previously thought.

Telling a crop-fertilizing strain from its potential bioterrorist-agent cousin is tricky, said researchers whose bioinformatics analysis shed light on the Burkholderia bacteria genus.

"Many of these are the first rocks that formed anywhere in the solar system," curator John Wasson said of the gallery's 1,500 meterorite specimens.

The technique — anamorphic stretch transform — makes it possible to improve the speed and quality of data capture, and could have applications in a range of scientific research settings.

Understanding the formation and loss of ultrarelativistic electrons in Earth's magnetosphere may help protect satellites, spacecraft and astronauts from the hazards these highly charged particles pose.

A scientist, together with a graduate student, used cutting-edge research tools at UCLA to help Turkish archaeologists decipher a large, neolithic mural that many believe is the world's earliest depiction of a volcanic eruption.