Science + Technology

UC Berkeley biologist Randy Schekman, who graduated from the UCLA College of Letters and Science in 1971, received the 2013 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

To visually capture life’s unpredictability, UCLA professor Casey Reas creates stunning art using a computer language he co-created.

During a recent visit to UCLA, Schekman spoke about his passion for science, his memories of UCLA and why he's decided to donate his Nobel money to the University of California.

More than 4,000 people swarmed the Court of Sciences and Kinsey Pavilion to participate in a scientific open house where children (and adults) could learn by observing and participating in dozens of live demos and experiments.

Scientists think such jets are produced when some of the material that falls toward black holes, like our galaxy's Sagittarius A*, is redirected outward.

Flexible smartphone screens, room-illuminating curtains and nanodiamonds that deliver chemotherapy directly into tumors are among the innovations resulting from the joint work of UCLA and private industry.

For Old World primates, the variety and complexity of their facial colors and patterns play a major role in helping them identify members of their own species and communicate with one another.

Wolves were probably domesticated by European hunter–gatherers and gradually evolved into dogs that became household pets, a new study suggests.

"It's hard to believe we're looking at an asteroid," said UCLA's David Jewitt. "Amazingly, its tail structures change dramatically in just 13 days as it belches out dust."

UCLA researchers created a multisensory virtual world for rats that allowed them to study for the first time how navigation and the expectation of a reward are connected.

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design has announced it will work with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc. for its 2014–15 master of architecture II program known as SUPRASTUDIO.

The team found that the thicker the leaf, the larger the size of the cells in nearly all of its tissues. But a leaf's surface area, whether tiny or huge, has no relation to cell size.

The research could help improve the design and environmental impact of reactors, which are used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and other chemical products.

Using the clock, researchers can gauge the age of diverse human organs and tissues. Unexpectedly, they found some parts of the anatomy, like women's breast tissue, age faster than the rest of the body.

The search for the elusive "God particle" was aided by a number of faculty members and their teams, who helped design and build the cutting-edge equipment and conduct research.

Randy Schekman is the seventh UCLA alumnus to win a Nobel Prize. Professors at UCLA remember him as a brilliant undergraduate with insights far beyond his years.

Schekman, a professor at UC Berkeley, and two others received the prize in physiology or medicine for their role in identifying how proteins are secreted and transported in human cells.

UCLA chemical engineering researchers have created a new synthetic metabolic pathway for breaking down glucose that could lead to a 50 percent increase in the production of biofuels.   The new pathway is intended to replace the natural...

UCLA's new high-speed microscopy technique, which was inspired by wireless communications, is some 10 times faster than current fluorescence-imaging technologies.

"We have finally found what powers Earth's aurora and radiation belts," said UCLA's Vassilis Angelopoulos. "It took many years ... but it has certainly paid off."

Joined by his older brother in the Class of 2017, Luke Vellotti plans to study math and computer science while he continues using his chess skills to help others.

Imagine a curtain that illuminates a room or a smartphone screen that can be pulled to twice its normal size. UCLA's new OLED technology takes us a step closer to that reality.

In pondering the mysterious ring in the Earth's Van Allen belts, researchers made a crucial discovery: Not all high-energy particles obey the same physics.

The small, lightweight device, which featuresa a color filter, an external lens and a laser diode, can be fabricated using a 3-D printer.