UCLA scientists are now reporting a promising new approach to designing super-hard materials, which are very difficult to scratch or crack. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Bruins coach Ben Howland isn't sure that's a good thing... "I think you're going to see a really competitive league from top to bottom," said 72-year-old Lute Olson, beginning his 24th season as the coach at Arizona. "The team with the obvious edge is UCLA." picked by Phildo 3 years ago

Pop singer Britney Spears was released from a psychiatric ward at the UCLA Medical Center today after nearly a week of treatment. picked by DemureArt 2 years ago

What Willy Wonka did for chocolate, UCLA microbiologist Wenyuan Shi is doing for lollipops. Shi and his lab team at the School of Dentistry have managed to make candy that's actually good for your teeth. The orange-flavored, sugar-free lollipop they devised is infused with a natural ingredient found in licorice that kills the primary bacterium causing tooth decay, Streptococcus mutans. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

In an effort to explore the boundary between thermodynamics and quantum mechanics — two fundamental yet seemingly incompatible theories of physics — a team from the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy has created the world's smallest incandescent lamp. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

UCLA and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have formed a research institute to better understand and predict regional environmental and climate change and support future space missions. picked by tlovesd 3 years ago

A woman who lost both legs and an arm as a child is poised to become a doctor for children. picked by kxmk 3 years ago

For the first time, scientists at UCLA and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have recorded individual brain cells in the act of calling up a memory, thus revealing where in the brain a specific memory is stored and how the brain is able to recreate it. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Brain's mirror neurons swayed by ethnicity and culture. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

UCLA mathematicians have discovered the 46th known Mersenne prime number! She's a beaut at 13 million digits, and it only took 75 computers to find it! picked by Rowangrey 1 year ago

In the evenings, Donna Munson liked to sit in front of her picture window and watch the bears amble toward her Ouray County log cabin for dinner. The 74-year-old woman — who stocked her backyard with dog food, fruit and yogurt — was found dead outside her home Friday, being eaten by a bear. picked by kakana 4 months ago

Archaeologists from UCLA and the University of Groningen (RUG) in the Netherlands have found the earliest evidence ever discovered of an ancient Egyptian agricultural settlement, including farmed grains, remains of domesticated animals, pits for cooking and even floors for what appear to be dwellings. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

UCLA researchers have found that a key protein in the body's dendritic cells can stop the virus that causes AIDS from "budding" part of the virus' life cycle that is crucial to its ability to replicate and infect other cells. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The new UCLA organization is named UCLA Pro-Test. Its message, Jentsch said, is that ending animal research "would be devastating, absolutely devastating, in the loss of knowledge and its practical applications to human health." picked by chinook 7 months ago

The challenge of finding the largest prime number ever known seems like an impossible task, however, when you put mathematicians and 100,000 computers together, you get an amazing result, which could qualify for the $100,000 prize offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for the first individual or group who discovers a prime number with at least 10,000,000 decimal digits. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago