Tag Archive for: UCLA Life Sciences

UCLA senior has a new flight plan

Anyadike made national headlines in summer 2009, at age 15, by…

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…

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…

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…

Cryo-electron microscope research reveals structure and mechanism of Bluetongue virus

Bluetongue disease is a viral infection that has killed approximately…

Why are some wild animals more tolerant to human interaction than others?

Over time, some species become more tolerant of humans’ presence,…