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Meet UCLA Student Researcher Julia Nakamura

Meet fourth-year UCLA student researcher Julia Nakamura! Julia…
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One of California’s iconic tree species offers lessons for conservation

  With increasing regularity, Californians are witnessing…

Black hole at the center of our galaxy appears to be getting hungrier

The enormous black hole at the center of our galaxy is having…

UCLA receives $20 million to establish UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute

The Bedari Foundation, established by philanthropists Jennifer…

Study shows how serotonin and a popular anti-depressant affect the gut’s microbiota

A new study in mice led by UCLA biologists strongly suggests…

Biochemists discover new insights into what may go awry in brains of people with Alzheimer’s

More than three decades of research on Alzheimer’s disease…
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Einstein’s general relativity theory is questioned but still stands ‘for now,’ team reports

More than 100 years after Albert Einstein published his iconic…

Study finds cultural differences in attitudes toward infidelity, jealousy

In cultures where fathers are highly invested in the care…
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Air quality app influences behavior by linking environment to health

Nine out of 10 people worldwide breathe polluted air and…
Photo of Richard Kaner, with Maher El-Kady, holding a replica of an energy storage and conversion device the pair developed.

Creating electricity from snowfall and making hydrogen cars affordable

Professor Richard Kaner and researcher Maher El-Kady have…