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Aliso Canyon gas leak linked to lower birth weights | Spectrum News 1

Her daughter was born healthy but small. At the time, DeRosa assumed her child was simply a low-weight baby. But new data from UCLA’s multi-year health study suggests there may have been more to it. The study’s first early findings show that mothers who were almost full term during the blowout and lived closest to the facility gave birth to babies with statistically lower birth weights than mothers who lived further away.

Chimpanzees’ battle for territory leads to a baby boom | Popular Science

To be sure, the team including study co-author Brian Wood of UCLA, also tested an alternative hypothesis. The female chimpanzees may be reproducing more frequently because their infant mortality was high, a pattern that is seen in some primates. However, their data showed the opposite, since both fertility and survival improved with territorial expansion.

Comet 3I/Atlas deserves closer look | NPR’s “All Things Considered”

“I think it’s an interesting object, but it’s a comet. It’s not an alien spaceship … And if we can figure out something about them, then maybe we can figure out something about some other place in the galaxy that we have really no other way to access.” [said UCLA’s David Jewitt.]

Car wash workers had it tough even before raids | Los Angeles Times

Her work ethic caught the attention of Victor Narro, one of CLEAN’s founders. He recommended Melendrez replace him as executive director in 2016. “I saw the way workers responded to her,” said Narro, a UCLA labor studies professor who continues to sit on CLEAN’s board of directors. “They became really loyal to her, and it’s tough to do that as a woman organizer to lead male workers. You just want to be in the fight with her — and what she’s dealing with right now is massive.”

Here’s what to know about stand-your-ground laws and their limits | CNN

In contrast, stand-your-ground laws and policies say even when a person is outside their home, they can stay where they are without retreating, even if they can avoid the danger by retreating, according to UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh.

Progress made by LGBTQ+ Texans is in jeopardy | The Texas Tribune

The result of Trump’s orders naming transgender people undermines decades of work by the LGBTQ+, the scientific and medical community to participate in public life, said Elana Redfield, federal policy director [at the William’s Institute] at the UCLA School of Law. And they undermine years of scientific research that helped governments and communities understand transgender people’s place in society.

No one knows how many people die in Mississippi’s local jails | Sun Herald

Regular access to these pills, or similar medications used to suppress HIV, is “bare minimum” care, said Dr. Tara Vijayan, a professor of medicine at UCLA who specializes in infectious diseases. Ideally, she said, Jones would have begun taking these medications soon after his diagnosis.