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A photo of two N95 respirators.

Single-use N95 respirators can be decontaminated and used again, study finds

N95 respirators, which are widely worn by health care workers…
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Tracy Johnson named dean of the UCLA Division of Life Sciences

Tracy Johnson, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental…
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Image of interstellar comet.

New NASA image provides more details about first observed interstellar comet

A new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope provides…
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Meet UCLA Student Researcher Julia Nakamura

Meet fourth-year UCLA student researcher Julia Nakamura! Julia…
Picture of a valley oak tree.

One of California’s iconic tree species offers lessons for conservation

  With increasing regularity, Californians are witnessing…

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…

Physical Sciences Dean Miguel García-Garibay has been elected a 2019 Fellow of the American Chemical Society

Miguel García-Garibay, dean of the UCLA Division of…