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Earth-like exoplanets may be common in the universe, study suggests | Fox News
Scientists led by Alexandra Doyle, a University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) graduate student of geochemistry and astrochemistry, came up with a new method to analyze the geochemistry of planets outside our solar system for the study, which was published in the journal Science this week. “We have just raised the probability that many rocky planets are like the Earth, and there’s a very large number of rocky planets in the universe,” co-author Edward Young, UCLA professor of geochemistry and cosmochemistry, said in a statement.
What is a bomb cyclone? | NBC News
“All bomb cyclones are not hurricanes,” University of California, Los Angeles, climate scientist Daniel Swain said. “But sometimes, they can take on characteristics that make them look an awful lot like hurricanes, with very strong winds, heavy precipitation and well-defined eye-like features in the middle.”
Here’s the picture we’ve been waiting for — Hubble’s photo of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov | Universe Today
Whereas ‘Oumuamua appeared to be a rock, Borisov is really active, more like a normal comet. It’s a puzzle why these two are so different,” said David Jewitt of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in a press release. Jewiit is the leader of the Hubble team who observed the comet. (Also: Daily Mail)
Democrats seek to build on 2018 gains with Latino voters | Wall Street Journal
In states with large Hispanic populations — such as California, Texas and New York — turnout increased by as much as 133%, according to an analysis of voting precincts by the University of California, Los Angeles. That analysis, released last December, found the Latino vote was responsible for flipping many House seats to the Democrats.
UCLA doctors offer new pinhole procedure to treat osteoarthritis of the knee | KABC-TV
More people of all ages are getting knee replacement surgery. Yet because of a several factors, thousands are not candidates. But now doctors at UCLA are studying a new, less invasive option and getting great results…. “At UCLA since 2017, we’ve treated over 50 patients and we've had extraordinarily good results,” (UCLA’s Dr. Sid) Padia said.
Can ‘climate test cases’ move forward? It’s up to Supreme Court | Bloomberg
“They’ve been on a bit of a losing streak,” said Ann E. Carlson, a professor at UCLA School of Law, who tracks climate litigation and has done pro bono consulting for some of the municipalities.
Can tiny glass beads keep arctic ice from melting? Maybe | Wired
Other scientists who have looked at the team’s proposal remain skeptical. Chad Thackeray, a climate scientist at UCLA, says that even with this intervention the Arctic will continue to warm, because planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions aren’t slowing down. Thackeray says the scale and cost of an operation to offset increasing Arctic temperatures would be massive.
Taking Ayahuasca when you’re a senior citizen | New York Times
Dr. Charles Grob, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine, who has been researching psychedelics since the 1980s, said: “With elderly people, there should be some emphasis on being aware that higher doses may have a level of risk that would not be present with younger individuals. Particularly for cardiovascular problems,” such as arrhythmia. “There needs to be more research.” Dr. Grob advises older people to get a full cardiac work-up before using psychedelics.
Syria pullback looks like an open door to disaster | CNN Opinion
(Commentary written by UCLA’s Wesley Clark) With this latest US pullback, the United States’ strategic withdrawal from the Mideast looks like an open door to regional disaster -- or worse, to a wholesale loss of American influence, perhaps worldwide. The US Senate, and especially the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, owes it to the men and women in uniform, and those who have previously served, to hold the hearings that will make sense of this strategy, or help develop a better approach.
The ‘Glasgow effect’ implies cities make us sad. Can the city prove the opposite? | Guardian
In their book The Inner Level, epidemiologists Kate Pickett and Richard G Wilkinson argue that inequality not only creates social rupture by highlighting people’s differences but also encourages competition, contributing to increased social anxiety. They cite a 2004 paper by two psychologists at the University of California, Los Angeles — Sally Dickerson and Margaret Kemeny — who analyzed 208 studies to find that tasks involving some threat of social evaluation affected stress hormones the most.
‘Foreigner,’ the ‘dehumanizing’ way Trump talks about migrant children | Los Angeles Times en Español
University of California, Los Angeles professor Otto Santa Ana, who has conducted several studies about the use of derogatory terms when referring to immigrants, agrees with warnings about the use of the word “foreigner,” especially when directed toward children. “Talking about ‘alien’ in this vernacular indicates, by nature of being foreign, that people can’t fit into American society,” warned Santa Ana. “This dehumanizes foreigners.” (Translated from Spanish)
This is why you don’t need a tidy desk for a productive day | Forbes
He alludes to research by psychologists at UCLA who recorded how people feel about their homes and tested them for the stress hormone cortisol. They found that women who have issues with clutter have the signature pattern of cortisol associated with people suffering from chronic fatigue, post-traumatic stress disorder, and a higher risk of mortality.
And ‘Lo!’ — How the internet was born | BBC News
Military-grade Honeywell computers seemed like the ideal starting point, although their armor plating may have been overkill. The prototype, IMP 0, emerged early in 1969. It did not work…. It wasn’t until October that year that IMP 1 and IMP 2 were in position at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Stanford Research Institute, more than 500km up the coast. On 29 October 1969, two mainframe computers exchanged their first word through their companion IMPs.
Water in LA receives C+ grade while 60 percent continues to come from outside region | KCBS-TV
The water quality in Los Angeles is not great, but a new study shows it is improving. UCLA gave Los Angeles County an overall C+ grade in its annual water report that was released Wednesday. The report included a C+ grade for water supply and consumption even though 60 percent of the water in L.A. County comes from outside of the region.
Legendary Bel-Air estate Casa Encantada lists for the highest price in America: $225 million | Los Angeles Times
“It is not unusual to start seeing a glut of supply in any property type, mansions included, this late in an expansion cycle,” UCLA real estate professor Paul Habibi said. “Oftentimes [developers] have a herd mentality about introducing more inventory into the market.” “The conventional wisdom is that so long as you’re not the last one without a seat when the music stops, you’ll make out OK,” he said.
Study focuses on repair and reversal of damage caused by Huntington’s disease | Medical Xpress
“It’s likely that we will not understand brain diseases without also understanding what happens to the cells that actually form the brain, including astrocytes,” said Baljit Khakh, the study’s lead investigator and a professor of physiology and neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
UCLA opens CAR T clinical trial targeting most common types of lymphoma and leukemia | Scienmag
This month, the UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center has launched a pioneering chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell immunotherapy trial that will attack cancer cells by simultaneously recognizing two targets — CD19 and CD20 — that are expressed on B-cell lymphoma and leukemia…. In preclinical studies led by Yvonne Chen, PhD, an associate professor of microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics at UCLA and the sponsor of the trial, the team was able to show that by simultaneously attacking two targets, the engineered T cells developed in her lab could achieve a much more robust defense compared to conventional, single-target CAR T cells against tumors in mice.
Antibody eradicates leukemia stem cells | Medical Xpress
“Our results suggest that it may be possible to eradicate CML stem cells by combining this new targeted therapy with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor,” said Dr. John Chute, the study’s senior author and a member of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA. “This could lead to a day down the road when people with CML may not need to take a tyrosine kinase inhibitor for the rest of their lives.”
