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Antarctica could be headed for major meltdown

In the early Miocene Epoch, temperatures were 10 degrees warmer…

Uphill battle for California’s native plant species

Invasive species have moved faster than native species, colonizing…

Q&A: UCLA psychologist Robert Bjork on the science of learning

Robert Bjork, Distinguished Research Professor in the UCLA Department…

Don’t use body mass index to determine whether people are healthy, UCLA-led study says

Over the past few years, body mass index, a ratio of a person’s…

Moon was produced by a head-on collision between Earth and a forming planet

The moon was formed by a violent, head-on collision between the…

Paul Terasaki, 86, transplant medicine pioneer, philanthropist, UCLA faculty member and alumnus

Paul Ichiro Terasaki, who spent three years with his family in…

Dog domestication may have increased harmful genetic changes, UCLA biologists report

Domesticating dogs from gray wolves more than 15,000 years ago…

Crowning 60 Years of Support and Advocacy

Marcia Howard ’54 considers UCLA her second home – no great…

Faculty couple helps foster sense of community in their department

Distinguished professor of paleobiology J. William “Bill”…

Is seeing believing? People are surprisingly bad at identifying where sights and sounds originate

“We tend to view our senses as flawless and think that to see…