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UCLA faculty voice: Oroville Dam shows urgent need for climate adaptation

The crisis at Oroville Dam should be a wake-up call to those…

Become a citizen scientist and help preserve California’s biodiversity

Would you like to become a volunteer citizen scientist helping…

Chilling climate revelations from the last ice age

About 14,000 years ago, the southwest United States was lush…

Infants show apparent awareness of ethnic differences, UCLA psychologists report

Infants less than a year old, who have yet to learn language,…

UCLA students get a big kick out of being ‘Big Bang’ scholars

As five UCLA freshmen settled onto a bus Thursday that would…

Preventing mass extinctions of big mammals will require immediate action

Preventing the extinction of gorillas, rhinoceroses, elephants,…

Los Angeles is a metropolitan den for mountain lions

Los Angeles is one of only two megacities — Mumbai, India,…

Technique from biology helps explain the evolution of the American car

Borrowing a technique that biologists might use to study the…

Using big data, scientists discover biomarkers that could help give cancer patients better survival estimates

People with cancer are often told by their doctors approximately…

UC regents appoint Dr. Owen Witte University Professor

Dr. Owen Witte, renowned scientist and esteemed member of UCLA’s…